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Railways: Discover the Paragon partnership
The Railroad industry will become increasingly relevant and strategic, due to the needs of the Brazilian economy to opt for a more financially feasible mode of transport.
Rail transport has important benefits:
- Greater transport capacity;
- More agility;
- Lower cost to the client: lower tax burden and fuel price;
- Lower risk of accidents and traffic impediments;
- Lower maintenance cost due to security and more stable infrastructure.
The metro-rail segment with subways and trams will grow in the coming years to meet the demand for alternatives to buses and cars in large and medium-sized cities.
As we can see, growth expectations are very promising. But how to manage them and foresee an efficient and profitable operating model in an industry with high investments, specific equipment and long-term planning?
The answer lies in data intelligence.
With mathematical modeling and scenario simulation tools, you can define optimal investments and management long before you put capital on the table.
Do you know these solutions that make the railway operation reach a higher level of quality in its processes?
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Challenges in the rail industry
- 1- What will be the Headway of my operation?
- 2- What rolling stock will be needed to transport?
- 3- What is the system cycle time?
- 4- How long and what is the behavior in the railway yard?
- 5- How does interference affect my operation?
- 6- How does the maintenance policy affect my performance?
- 7- What is my traction capacity for this stretch?
- 8- What is the ideal type train to operate on this line?
- 9- How many crossing yards are needed to guarantee the efficiency of the operation?
How we solve your problem
The PARAGON team is formed by experts in decision-making tools. Said tools include statistical, modeling, management and data visualization software and methodologies. We use the most modern state of the art ou latest simulation, optimization, scheduling and data visualization technologies. Our main goal is to offer security for decision making, presenting results and simple alternatives for complex problems that help reaching the productivity and profitability targets through cost reduction and investment optimization.
Investment planning in the railway industry
Technological innovations, new concessions and more demanding clients with increasingly tight logistics and management of structures and equipment for decades of useful life; this is the complexity we know from the rail and metro-rail industries.
An ecosystem of metro-railway logistics requires highly complex structures, large physical spaces, high value-added equipment, with emphasis on the rolling stock, which is the component with the greatest wear and tear and which requires a long-term schedule for acquisitions and receipts.
In addition, there are operational and service specifications for the cargo and passenger transport.
Defining efficiency, profitability and safety goals – a crucial factor in the railway operation – is a great challenge for business managers.
The amounts involved are superlative, but the risks lie in the details and could represent a loss of millions of reais.
Thus, establishing an expansion or resizing project for the operation with all these variables, in addition to the countless legal and internal requirements of each area, is a job that can take months or years of study.
Strategic planning in the railway industry
Many companies in the metro-railway industry, faced with such complexity and the urgency of producing and meeting targets, decide on one of the possibilities to plan strategically:
- 1- They take longer because they do not use agile data collection and analysis methods used in the project;
- 2- They greatly reduce the time, but at the cost of analysis and definitions that do not go deep enough, due to the lack of technological solutions and methods that deliver a consistent mass of data, allowing for better decisions, securely and in less time.
If planning is based on traditional solutions for gathering data, which are often just a part of what is really needed to make the best decisions, the result will be far below the goals.
There are many variables that need interrelational analysis tools, considering the impacts of one variable on the others. The topics below are just a few of them.
- 1- Headway of my operation (intervals that avoid trains)
- 2- Rolling stock required to operate
- 3- System cycle time
- 4- Optimal behavior in the railway yard
- 5- External interference harm my operation
- 6- Maintenance policy interferes with performance
- 7- Traction capacity for one stretch
- 8- Ideal train type to operate a particular line
- 9- How many crossing yards are needed to ensure efficiency
Small adjustments in the schedule or in the number of trains available, for example, are necessary due to the variation in demand, the need to stop a train for maintenance and several other factors.
Expansion or resizing projects can be risky to carry out. Reduce the risk of excessive expenses and delays with the best upfront planning, using data science and design architectures tested by over 1,000 PARAGON clients since 1992.
Asset and equipment management in the railway industry
Few activities have an asset management complexity at the rail industry level. These are equipment with high added value, mostly imported and having the longest working life on the market.
The maintenance of this machinery requires long-term planning, with very accurate intervention strategies, especially with the rolling stock, the main component for the operation of the trains.
Solutions with data intelligence, mapping a large volume of information, allow you to build maintenance plans with high management precision and with broad chances of success in your daily routine.
A digital twin (simulation) is essential to view all the alternatives from the widest possible mass of data and test the implementation of strategies and projects, which will be used for decades.
Railways: Paragon Clients
Expansion or resizing projects can be risky to implement. Reduce the risk of excessive expenses and delays with the best upfront planning, using data science and design architectures tested by over 1,000 PARAGON customers since 1992.
Do you want to bring data excellence to your project and make the most assertive and safe decisions in your railway production chain?
PARAGON can be your ally!
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