Business profile
With its 30th birthday next year, engineering solution provider Multipulse Electronics is celebrating early - thanks to recent successes in the rail industry
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urrey-based Multipulse has been designing, manufacturing and supplying systems for the industrial electronics sector since 1984. Now recognised as one of the major engineering solution service providers, the company offers turnkey, prime contractor and subcontract services to a wide range of rail, transport and telecoms businesses across the UK and overseas. Working closely with Network Rail, the company is completing the successful roll-out of GSM-R installation equipment and tooling. It has also recently signed a sole UK agency agreement for Saira Electronics’ (formerly Far Systems) energy monitoring systems.
Multipulse has been involved in some of the key communication milestones of the past 30 years, including supplying complex base station equipment for the emerging cellular phone network in the early 1990’s and working closely with the provider of communication equipment to the emergency services on the introduction of the TETRA network for Airwave, the largest public safety radio communications network in the world. The company was also partner to Thales for the manufacture and supply of more than 3000 trainborne, class-specific train protection warning system (TPWS) kits and driver control panels for the deployment of TPWS throughout the rail network. Multipulse was also a leading provider of materials and installation services for the LUL Connect programme in collaboration with Motorola. Now, the company’s focus is firmly on rail, transportation and telecoms solutions, and it works with Network Rail, national and multinational Tier
Prime contractor programme management services
• overall project management • stakeholder management • design services • human factors and ergonomics • equipment design manufacture and test
• system and regulatory approvals
• installation services • system commissioning
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1 supply contractors and just about every Toc in the UK for the successful installation of GSM-R. The company also designs, develops and delivers state-of- the-art communication and installation systems as well as retaining the contract to provide test and calibration services for the Thales TPWS train test units throughout the rail network.
Trainborne, trackside and infrastructure With an appetite for excellence and a reputation to match, the company has developed a range of systems for train,
trackside and across the general rail infrastructure. These include a specialist installation kitting service, which has seen the company provide more than 12,000 kits across three of the UK rail industry’s largest programmes. This service involves sourcing, design, manufacture, assembly, test and packaging to provide a complete solution that’s delivered on time and on budget - key requirements for a closely- monitored industry such as rail. Managing director, Neil Ramsey, said that the ability to provide turnkey solutions to the industry is vital. ‘We
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