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Solutions are the results of Quantum's efforts to design equipment which addresses the needs of the railroad community.

How does Quantum accomplish this?

by listening to the customer

by using skills developed from 20 years of railroad experience

by re-engineering older designs with current technology

by creating new methods and products to solve your problems

Each solution is specifically designed to fit a unique problem. There are no "cookie cutter" solutions at Quantum.

Solutions to railroad problems are our goal, and Quantum has been extremely successful in attaining this objective. Our successes include such innovations as locomotive strobe warning light systems and solid state event recorder systems.

Quantum thrives on challenge. It is a "can do" attitude and spirit that defines Quantum. One of our personal and corporate goals is to provide cost-effective solutions to the problems facing railroads, today and into the future.

Quality is a key ingredient to Quantum's success. All Quantum employees are committed to quality and are empowered to improve the design of products or the manufacturing process. 

 

Quality starts with understanding the customers needs. You cannot "inspect" quality into a product. The quality inspection process merely verifies that we have accomplished all of our objectives.

Quality starts with understanding the customers needs. It continues with the development of the proper specification and is implemented with a superior design. Quality is then assured in the manufacturing process by flawless workmanship, exceptional materials, and verification of results. Quantum's motto is that you cannot "inspect" quality into a product. The quality inspection process merely verifies that we have accomplished all of our objectives.

Each employee at Quantum has quality responsibility, from the incoming material inspector, to the outbound material shipping clerk. Quality is a process, a journey, a continuum, which Quantum strives to achieve every day. We design it in, we build it in, and we inspect every product to insure quality is in every shipment to our customers.

Quantum's Quality Program has been approved by major U.S. railroads. We invite our customers to visit our facilities and review our quality process.

Imagination is the key that leads to solutions at Quantum. Without imagination, ineffective and inadequate responses to problems are perpetuated. It is this attribute along with solid engineering design that form solutions. The basic building blocks that are Quantum's foundation.

Quantum's history of innovative ideas is primarily due to its ability to combine the thoughts and ideas of not only the Quantum team but its railroad customers as well, molding a solution from the resulting consensus.

Imagination and solid engineering design, however, must be combined with the knowledge of the railroad environment. This "rail industry" knowledge allows Quantum's people to design equipment that fills the given need.

Quantum's history of innovative ideas is primarily due to its ability to combine the thoughts and ideas of not only the Quantum team but its railroad customers as well, molding a solution from the resulting consensus. Quantum truly listens to its customers. Who better to define the problem and provide input toward a possible solution than the customer with the problem? Many times it simply takes looking at a problem from a different perspective to see the "forest through the trees." This is where imagination and Quantum make the difference.

Results are the end product that are derived through Quantum's efforts. We have been extremely successful at finding solutions to many of the problems facing the railroads today. In the process, Quantum has developed several "firsts":

The QDP system has greatly enhanced the throughput of railroad supervisors who are charged with playing and interpreting event recorder data.

the first manufacturer to design a solid state event recorder with nonvolatile memory needing no batteries to retain the recorded data on power-down of the recorder

the first manufacturer to combine magnetic tape and solid state memory into one system, for a reliable yet inexpensive means to download the event recorder

the first manufacturer to develop a personal computer based interactive video playback system that can review recorded locomotive data from either magnetic tape, solid state credit cards or diskettes

the first manufacturer to develop a playback system that can play up to twenty-four magnetic tapes consecutively without operator intervention. The QDP (R) system has greatly enhanced the throughput of railroad supervisors who are charged with playing and interpreting event recorder data. The productivity of those charged with monitoring locomotive efficiency and measuring crew performance is greatly increased.

This list of "firsts" is impressive for a young company. Quantum has several new products, which will yield even greater results. And that is really what all the other components, namely, SOLUTIONS, IMAGINATION, and QUALITY of the Quantum process deliver ... RESULTS.

 

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