Administration
We help HR and operations executives optimize the key asset of their workforce.
Featured Solutions
- SATS: New Generation Signal Simulation
- SATS Wins Progressive Railroading Award
Workforce Optimization
We assist crew scheduling, best-practice operational processes, best-practice job roles, role transition plans, assessment of costs and benefits, and organizational structure recommendations. This work can entail the development of optimization models.
Successes
- Strategic assessment with recommendations for the right sizes of crews at a Class I railroad.
IT Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning
We blend IT and management consulting to conduct rigorous DR/BCP planning for organizations and for large-scale systems.
Successes
- Development of a disaster recovery plan for a complex dispatching system for a Class I railroad, which featured a custom interactive tool to evaluate technical failure scenarios at levels of component or location.
- Analysis of a PTC system’s high-availability architecture to ensure uninterrupted service.
Insights
- Railway Age March 2021: RailPulse Moves Forward on Telematics Platform
- Analytics Magazine July/August 2018: When Optimization Models Fail: How to Avoid Chaos
- Digital Disruption in Freight Transportation
- The Optimized Industrial Business: Highlights from GE’s Minds + Machines
- Boosting Asset Utilization: the Hunt for Percentage Points