Our Case Studies

Bombardier needed to keep their rail-cars fully operational at all times on their River-line trains, in New Jersey. Safety covers on critical components of the cars during operation would be damaged by passengers or vandals causing the car to go into service for repair.

For the price of less than a can of soda, an entire train was kept off line. If the covers could not be replaced in a timely manner the rail car would stay out of service until the damaged parts were replaced.

Bombardier’s big problem was that the lead time in getting the parts from Germany where the rail cars were manufactured could take weeks or prove too costly to make on a short notice. So Bombardier reached out to JMJ Profile, as a local resource, for help in sourcing the material and making the parts required to replace the broken component.

The part required quite a bit of forensics, where JMJ needed to identify the material that the part was made of, and we could only do this from a sample provided by the customer. No other specifications were provided.

JMJ contacted our supplier of material and through some testing with them discovered the material and was able to source and machine the parts quickly and less expensively than having to get them from Germany or go offshore.

We were able to be build the badly needed part correctly, quickly, and in the most cost effective way, to help keep the trains running for Bombardier.