Hyundai Rotem, a provider of industrial rail and smart logistics, will use Wind River Studio Developer to modernise and automate its railway software development environment.

Building on a 30-year relationship as a longtime VxWorks user, South Korean train maker Hyundai Rotem will expand its use of Wind River software to advance its move towards cloud-native development, driving flexibility, scalability and efficiency as the company transitions to a software-defined rail system.

“We are thrilled to support Hyundai Rotem on its journey towards software-defined, autonomous transportation systems,” said Javed Khan, executive vice president at Wind River parent company Aptiv (www.aptiv.com). “With Wind River, Hyundai Rotem can modernise its software development practices without compromising safety, security or quality. This enables faster innovation, improved efficiency and reduced costs while delivering secure, compliant and reliable edge systems.”

Won-Sang Lee, vice president at Hyundai Rotem, added: “Leveraging Wind River technology, Hyundai Rotem is making a strategic shift towards software-defined functions, which will help us automate our development environment, accelerate innovation and maximise RoI across current and future projects. Together with Wind River and their mission-critical expertise across industries, we are creating for the future of intelligent rail.”

Studio Developer, a devops platform, will empower Hyundai Rotem with agile software development advancements such as CI, CD and cloud-native deployment to solve modern software development problems that impede automation. Hyundai Rotem will also use Wind River Cloud Platform (www.windriver.com/products/cloud-platform) as the cloud infrastructure to host Studio Developer and will continue to use VxWorks (www.windriver.com/products/vxworks) for its safety-certified signalling and train control management system.

Studio Developer (www.windriver.com/product/studio-developer) is designed to accelerate the development, deployment, and operation of mission-critical systems at the intelligent edge. It enables agile practices such as CI, CD and cloud-native deployment to overcome barriers to automation. By increasing automation and collaboration, Studio Developer improves developer efficiency, enables shift-left testing, boosts agility and extends system lifetime value.

Cloud Platform provides a robust, on-premises private cloud to deploy and manage complex cloud architectures in demanding environments.

Wind River (www.windriver.com) delivers software for the intelligent edge. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of devices and systems that require security, safety and reliability.

Hyundai Rotem (www.hyundai-rotem.co.kr) helps secure sustainability in the areas of rail, defence and eco-plants. The company is also pursuing a smart logistics business, supplying mobility products and automation facilities to increase logistical efficiency, including automated guided vehicles, autonomous mobile robots and automated warehouses.