An Industrial visit of #MBA-2nd Semester, #BBA-6th and #B.Com (P)-6th was organized to #Rail Coach Factory, #Kapurthala. Established in 1986, #RCF is a coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. RCF has already carved a niche in the industrial scenario of the country at large and Indian Railways, in particular. After turning out its first coach in March 1988, RCF has moved on to become the largest and most modern coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. At present more than 28,000 RCF built coaches are traversing the length and breadth of our nation. Every year RCF is adding more than 1600 coaches to this fleet, which includes AC and Non-AC coaches for Broad Gauge. It also makes LHB coaches (Linke Hofmann Busch) in collaboration with Germany for premier Shatabdi, Rajdhani and other Super Fast trains in India.
RCF is equipped with a state-of-the–art CAD centre and CNC machines to undertake design and manufacture of bogies, shells (both with stainless steel and corten steel).FRP interiors as per customer’s requirement. The state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and processes have enabled RCF to achieve excellence in Design, Development, Manufacture and Installation and after sales service of Railway Coaches with a view to ensure enhanced satisfaction of the Rail customer. The students of the institute gained a first hands exposure of manufacturing sector and were able to correlate practical with theory.