Objectives of the RADIS system

The highly competitive markets of major industries require that those companies involved must constantly strive to improve their productivity. Such improvements include better transport logistics (on-time deliveries, lower stocks, faster turnaround times). The goal for the complex subject of industrial railway operations is a faster and more reliable allocation of transport resources through the targeted introduction of information technology.

HaCon's many years of experience in the field of simulating railway operations, as well as the computerized handling of railway data and its graphic presentation, provided the foundation for developing the RADIS online management and information system. The system has been developed to such an extent that now it is not only marshalling activities which can be represented; all the key processes and events of a transport operation can be taken into account.

RADIS makes use of a modern client-server architecture to achieve the following objectives:

• More efficient deployment of operational resources.
• Clarity of account information, e.g. with respect to national railways (siding rent, bill of carriage accounting), wagon hirers (wagon rental) and loading centers (marshalling costs, haulage capacity).
• Increasing the clarity of operations through graphic displays of current operating situations and numerous information options.
• Supporting operating resources managers in the supervision and control of marshalling operations.
• Simplifying data gathering through once-only data acquisition at the respective source and interfaces to external and in-house data-processing systems.
• Improved operations controlling through records and the evaluation of all relevant operating variables ("reporting").
• Expenditure-related allocation of marshalling costs in "locomotive hours" to the separate operations or loading centers.