Rail fleet management system is designed to meet the growing needs of the businesses for a better and modern way to control operations by rail. The competitive nature of our world today requires for the companies to effectively manage all aspects of their business.

For many manufacturing companies in various industries the rail fleet is an essential and integral part of the process in terms of delivering raw materials to the production plants and finished products to the customers. Digital Design's long-term partnership with Russian Railways and successful deployment of projects for Baltika and Heineken Breweries, Nurminen Logistics and Stora Enso are also pointing at the solutions strong qualities.

Rail Fleet Management System is built on various technologies including Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 2005 Analysis Service and Microsoft.Net and provides wide functionality:

• Uploads information on car locations and their mechanic data provided by the railroad informational agency into a centralized storage,
• Eliminates the risk of data being lost, allowing the company to maintain a consistent, reliable source of information for easy analysis and report building,
• Offers preventive measures to proactively address potential delays, ensure route compliance, and assist in lost vehicle recovery,
• Allows to keep repair history, identify repair patterns and predict approaching repairs (Preventive Maintenance), thus eliminating the need for costly emergency repairs,
• Provides all freight-related information.

On top of that there are numerous ways in which the product can be tuned for specific needs of an individual customer:

• Upload, analysis and processing of information about rolling stock from other sources,
• Data exchange with other sources (cross-country rail information systems),
• Analysis of optimal cargo transportation turnover using multidimensional OLAP cubes,
• Module for railroad documentation management and rates calculations for shipments.

Business Benefits:

• Centralized data storage and unified access to data results in improved vehicle tracking and traceability, and, hence, increased productivity,
• The system’s user-friendly interface allows employees to save significant amounts of time while searching for, viewing and analyzing data,
• Better organized information makes for higher profits through better fleet management,
• Predictable, timely deliveries improve company’s operations and customer service, thus making the company more competitive in today’s operating environment.