Ikos Consulting UK Ltd

IKOS is a European engineering consultancy, specialising in rail. Founded in 2005, it now operates across 25 offices and 13 countries:

• UK.
• France.
• Belgium.
• Germany.
• Switzerland.
• Italy.
• Spain.
• Portugal.
• Morocco.
• Sweden.
• USA.
• Cananda.
• Israel.

Today, a team of more than 1,450 IKOS consultants support major rail projects across the globe. The company grew organically until 2021, when it embarked on its first growth operation, acquiring UK rail business AEGIS. And, despite this growth, its vision – to accelerate innovation and performance for clients – remains unchanged.

Values:

• Passion.
• Respect.
• Team spirit.
• Excellence.

AEGIS was established in 1997 as a consultancy specialising in certification and engineering. It now supports the whole rail industry, employing approximately 100 experts. This highly skilled team offers innovative, cost-effective solutions, engineering expertise, and swift responses.

Today, AEGIS comprises two independent companies – AEGIS Engineering Services and Aegis Certification Services.

IKOS offers a range of bespoke services, supporting clients around the world.

• Expertise and technical assistance: guidance, expertise, and coordination at each stage of the project life cycle.
• Practices/centres of excellence: IKOS has established its own working groups, which develop the company’s know-how and define the practices that become its services.
• Work packages: IKOS’ multi-disciplinary teams can deliver work packages and cover all aspects of the V-model.
• Innovation: IKOS Lab develops innovation strategies for clients, and innovative new services via R&D projects.

• Signalling.
• Modelling and simulation.
• Predictive maintenance.
• Systems engineering.
• Cyber security.
• Type-approval rolling stock.