“Our Immediate Objective is Market Entry and Commercialization”. Deputy General Designer of Transport Complexes Shared the Plans of UST for 2022

We continue our series of interviews on the focal areas of Unitsky String Technologies Inc. Our today’s guest is the Deputy Design Engineer of Transport Complexes Viktor Garah who shared with us the passing year’s outcomes of the company and the objectives for the year to come.

What are the functions of your team?

Speaking of the major functions of the Deputy Design Engineer of Transport Complexes, the primary result-related responsibility is the implementation quality of R&D solutions, including as a customer’s representative. In terms of organizational structure, the team mentors the work of the General Designer Department which coordinates the activities of general designers in high-speed, express and cargo directions with their teams as well as Technical Design Group with the PLM Department responsible for digitalization of a product’s life cycle. 

Our team is focused on the creation of the entire technical image of the transport complex based on Anatoli Unitsky’s concepts which determine the vector to move along when implementing industry-forming string technologies.

What are you working on currently?

As for the activities in general, we’re occupied with a multi-pronged development of technical solutions to cover the whole range of functional applications (express cargo/passenger transportation). One of our goals is to ensure modularity and unification which immediately cut the expenses for development, production and operation. After all, the customer is interested in performance and economic indicators rather than in implementation techniques. 

Another focus of the team is put on achieving top-level indicators of safety, reliability and guaranteed resource. This is done in the way to attain flawless results of our work with proper support documentation in case we’re inspected by any regulator who we will be responsible to in the target direction.

Our present-day work towards application-oriented results is the development and maintenance of two transport and infrastructure complexes in Belarus and two in the UAE. 

What outcomes have you achieved?

From my point of view, it’s a great achievement that we received the Certificate of Conformity in terms of safety of the Test Complex No.1 in the UAE from TUV – one of the world leaders in this area. This certificate confirmed safety of the uSky transport and infrastructure technology, which omitted the main restriction on its large-scale implementation around the globe.

Before long, the EcoTechnoPark in Maryina Gorka will present the 7th line extending by around 800 m and two transport complexes in Sharjah, each more than two kilometers long. Moreover, we have modernized the chasses of almost the entire rolling stock and replaced the transport base at all on some electric cars.

What is the reason to modernize pre-production prototypes? 

I’ll be more general: a prototype (we speak here the ISO 9001 language) has to become serial. Otherwise, this is just a waste of time and resources. Therefore, our primary goal was to reduce the time for confirmation of required result in terms of reliability, readiness, and resource. In this regard, we focus mainly on resource elaboration for spare parts of the complex, particularly, stress tests at temperatures close to 60 degrees Celsius under the impact of high humidity, sand, and sea salts. Thus, we have accomplished parallel and individual work to increase safety of the transport complex in terms of both supply systems and the whole automatic control system.

We have developed and will shortly finish the construction of new prototypes of the rolling stock with all of its systems corresponding to the requirements imposed for operation under extreme circumstances. Moreover, the prototypes have been developed in strict compliance with international standards. As a result, we not only have the prototypes of rail electric cars but moved on to the final certification stage of the design documents on conformity to the EN standards.

What are your plans for the future?

Our team is not used to telling straightforward plans but its key and absolute responsibility is to follow the commitments made and achieve the goal as planned.

In the future, we plan to put spare parts of the complex into production, form our own regulations, control operation of the complex at the customer’s site and, naturally, develop and upgrade the system considering all factors that not only exist but can be predicted based on risk assessment.

Our immediate objective is to enter the market and commercialize our products. This is a cumbersome and resource-intensive process, given peculiarities of the procedure itself. Our part in this process is to ensure high usability and excellent performance parameters in terms of functionality, quality and, of course, safety.