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    RWF manufactures wheels, axles, and wheel sets for railroad wagons and coaches. Wheels are cast continuously in a controlled pouring process using recycled scrap steel. The casting process results in wheels that require only hub boring. Axles are produced by heating steel blooms, forging them into shape, heat treating, and CNC machining. An automated wheel set assembly line bores wheels to size, conveys them to an assembly complex, and presses wheels onto axles within specified force limits.

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    Manufacturing Process English

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    RWF manufactures wheels, axles, and wheel sets for railroad wagons and coaches. Wheels are cast continuously in a controlled pouring process using recycled scrap steel. The casting process results in wheels that require only hub boring. Axles are produced by heating steel blooms, forging them into shape, heat treating, and CNC machining. An automated wheel set assembly line bores wheels to size, conveys them to an assembly complex, and presses wheels onto axles within specified force limits.

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    RWF manufactures wheels, axles, and wheel sets for railroad wagons and coaches. Wheels are cast continuously in a controlled pouring process using recycled scrap steel. The casting process results in wheels that require only hub boring. Axles are produced by heating steel blooms, forging them into shape, heat treating, and CNC machining. An automated wheel set assembly line bores wheels to size, conveys them to an assembly complex, and presses wheels onto axles within specified force limits.

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    Manufacturing Process English

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    Chockalingam Chidambaram
    RWF manufactures wheels, axles, and wheel sets for railroad wagons and coaches. Wheels are cast continuously in a controlled pouring process using recycled scrap steel. The casting process results in wheels that require only hub boring. Axles are produced by heating steel blooms, forging them into shape, heat treating, and CNC machining. An automated wheel set assembly line bores wheels to size, conveys them to an assembly complex, and presses wheels onto axles within specified force limits.

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    Cast Wheels

    RWF is successfully meeting the requirement of wheels of wagon builders and loose wheels
    required for ROH/POH of wagons/coaches. A wheel is cast every 2minutes. Wheels are cast by
    controlled pressure pouring process. The technology for
    this was obtained from M/s. Griffin Wheel Co., USA. In
    this process, the raw material used is pedigree scrap (old
    used Wheelsets, axles etc, rejected as unfit for use by the
    Railways). The scrap steel is melted in Electric Arc
    furnace. The correct chemistry of molten metal steel is
    ensured through a Spectrometer.
    The wheels are
    eventually cast in the graphite moulds, which are preheated and sprayed. After allowing for a pre-determined
    setting time the mould is split and the risers are
    automatically separated from the cast wheel.
    The wheel then undergoes the process of heat treatment, Cleaning, Magnaglo testing, Ultrasonic
    testing, Peening and various stages of inspection. The wheel produced by this process requires
    no machining except the precision boring of central hole (hub) where the axle has to be fitted.
    Axles
    RWF produces an axle every 4 minutes. The Plant converts steel blooms to axles through a
    series of forging, heat treatment and machining processes.
    Blooms cut to the required sizes are heated in Rotary Hearth
    Furnace up to 1200 degree C. These are carried to the
    precision Long Forging machine where the hammers convert
    billets into the required shapes through computerized control
    programmes. The Forging Machine having multiple hammers
    are used to get required sizes of forgings. After end cutting,
    the rough forged axles are subjected to heat treatment in
    normalizing and tempering furnaces. Rail Wheel Factory is
    having three axle machining lines out of which 2 are CNC
    machines to convert these forgings to the axle. RWF converts BOX N, Coaching and Container
    Axles to wheel sets. Loco axles are generally sent in rough turned condition to the Production
    Units and Railways workshops for converting to wheel sets.
    Wheel Sets
    RWF is having a highly automated wheel set assembly complex supplied by M/s. Simmons
    Machine Tool Corporation, USA. Wheel seat sizes of machined
    axles are measured and wheels received from wheel shop are
    bored according to this size. The precision borers ensure that
    the final bores have required interference with the individual
    axles. After boring, the wheels are carried through automated
    conveyors to the assembly complex along with axles and
    wheels are pressed one after another. The force required in
    pressing the wheels is recorded automatically to ensure that the
    pressing force is within the laid down limits.

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