We are working since several decades in the field of railway vehicle dynamic and started with program development integrated into the commercial program MEDYNA. Now well known in the world of railway engineers. MEDYNA is one of the first multi body programs (MBS) on the market dealing with railway dynamics.

MEDYNA was developed within a research program called: 
"ZFF - Zusammenwirken von Fahrzeug und Fahrweg/ Interaction of vehicle and track - Limits of the wheel-rail system"
which was sponsored by the German government after the increasing pressure from the German railway industry to develop a vehicle which could compete with the already running Shinkansen in Japan, the TGV in France, and the APT  in England which were under development. The development of the hardware for the new high-speed train was one part of the research program. The other was to develop a computer program based on existing theoretical knowledge but without the restrictions of existing software. This theoretical part was done in the research program '"Algorithm and design tools for the calculation in advance of optimal designs of railway vehicles." The companies and research institutions involved in this research project included: 

• Krauss Maffei (locomotives)
• MBB (coaches) 
• Thyssen Henschel (locomotives) 
• Waggon Union (coaches)
• DLR, Institute of Robotic and System Dynamics 
• MAN Neue Technologie (vehicle dynamics, active control systems)
• TU-Berlin, with the Institute of Aerospace and Space Technology

In 1996 ArgeCare  joined the ADAMS/Rail consortium. They wanted to incorporate their software inside the frame work of a mechanical system simulation tool like ADAMS to take advantage of an existing state-of-the-art graphical user interface and widely tested CAE interfaces.

The development plan for ADAMS/Rail includes the migration of the different wheel-rail contact models and railway elements present in MEDYNA to the ADAMS/Rail interface.