As a result of the experience accumulated by Tecnatom in its original markets, the Nuclear and Thermal Power Plants, since its creation in 1957, and especially following the success of transferring this experience to the aerospace industry in the last decade, Tecnatom has also extended its services to include the railway industry.

In the specific area of simulation, the strategy of Tecnatom was centred on its relationship with the railway industry (goods, passengers and high speed trains and metropolitan systems). Liberalisation policies will give rise to many different railway operators and this will provoke an increasing need for training personnel such as drivers, controllers and maintenance staff. In preparation for responding to this need, Tecnatom has decided to extrapolate its experience of more 30 years in the field of personnel training and the development of training simulators to the railway sector. In this way it will be in a position to offer high quality, low cost training simulators for drivers of trams, light underground trains, conventional underground trains and standard railway trains. The SIMULCON project, for developing a simulator for the tram system belonging to Valencia-FGV Metro is a good example of an excellent product which has been integrated with the client. Together with this offer of high technology training tools Tecnatom also offers the development of specific Training Plans which provide a perfect balance between theoretical sessions and sessions on the simulator.