Integrated Resource Planning and Management - RailOpt

For Rail Operator COO’s, who are challenged with using disparate systems to manage the complex tasks of track scheduling, rolling stock scheduling, staffing, and between-route maintenance, Qnamic’s RailOpt® is an intelligent resource planning and management software solution built specifically for the needs of the rail industry. For customers outside the Rail industry, a generic version of the product named PlanOpt is available to satisfy integrated resource needs. Possible uses have been identified in the airline, hospital, and mining sectors. In fact anywhere where different categories of resources must be scheduled simultaneously in order for a planned task to be accomplished. This innovative software coupled with CSC’s consulting and system integration capability enables the integration of complex peripheral systems and provides a single, consolidated and transparent view of resource deployment covering long term, short term and real time planning-to-dispatch for the areas of goods transport, passenger transport, provision and communications. Our offering simplifies the integration and management of systems and facilitates, optimizes the usage of the existing resources and infrastructure improving efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness with greatly enhanced transparency.

RailOpt is a suite of solutions for intelligent resource planning and management. It provides support for the following standard business processes:

• service planning
• simulation
• personal and vehicle rotation planning
• short term refinement of planning
• operations management/dispatching
• post activity processing

Communication of the plan to the resources involved can be achieved via a web interface, email or SMS service.