Rail Consist Manager

Integrated service management is the key to effective work backlog management. 

Having advanced maintenance planning, scheduling and compliance tools like the award winning Visual Planner™ enables Operations and Maintenance Managers to have direct line of sight to the maintenance priorities of the day without losing focus or view of the long term work plans.

Visual Planner Suite for Smarter Rail is a unique configuration of Visual Planner Suite for Smarter Transportation that enable and supports complex rail consist management processes. Using these highly interactive visual calendars, Rail Maintenance and Operations coordinators will spend much less time and energy creating and modifying consist placement and yard / track allocations using Smart Calendars and Smart Resource Leveling.

Visual Planner Suite for Smarter Rail is a solid component of IBM’s vision for Smarter Railways and compliments Maximo for Transportation (TR) features used to:

• Assign Asset/Equipment to Consists;
• Reserve Shop Work Locations for Scheduled Work;
• Assign Consists to Shop Locations / Assets;
• Assign Labor to Scheduled work.
• Reserve Outbound Consists to dispatch Train Operators

Visual Resource Leveling will ensure that your Planners /  Supervisors have assigned qualified resources to dynamic consist inspection and repair work plans. Visual Calendars will be used to identify rail equipment availability enabling Planners to respond to the dynamic realities of inbound and outbound train management. Visual Appointments will help schedule the reservation of rail consists that are ready for dispatch and assignment of outbound train operators.

Smarter Rail Operations and Maintenance begin your shift with Visual Planner Suite for Smarter Rail because they understand that a smarter, safer, more profitable rail maintenance operation requires focus on safety, human and energy costs every minute every mile.