On NLMK Kaluga the monitoring system of the movement of the rolling stock is implemented

On November 1, 2018 the ITL Consulting company reported that it together with TsZhDT NLMK Kaluga completed the project on system implementation of Monitoring of the movement of the rolling stock.

For implementation of this solution the system of the account of axes installed at the railway station is used. The system of the account of axes fixes movement of axes on railway tracks and transfers information to MDPS. In MDPS units of the rolling stock are identified, and shunting transactions and the current provision of the rolling stock online are displayed and registered.

Project objective on implementation of MDPS in NLMK-Kaluga first of all, is increase in turnover of the rolling stock due to obtaining operational reliable information about the performed shunting transactions and also about duration of idle times of cars on the ways of the enterprise.

Reduction of turn-around time for cars at the plant NLMK Kaluga and also on other production sites of NLMK Group, is for us extremely important strategic objective. Achievement of this purpose is impossible without use of modern management tools rail transportation. System implementation online of monitoring of the rolling stock in basic option allowed to reduce time of turnover of cars for 11% in 2018, and the further expansion of its functionality planned for 2019 will give the chance to increase this effect by two-three times Sergey Likharev, vice president for logistics of NLMK Group

Also a System increases safety of internal rail transportation. In a system the facts of speeding of the movement of locomotives and also change of provision of an arrow on busy section are fixed.

In MDPS analytical reports about the performed shunting work form. So information on locomotive work is presented in a report type about time of the movement and idle times of locomotives with cars and without cars, calculations of average technical, average operational and maximum speed of the movement of locomotives are made. Information on cars is generated in reports on duration of stay of cars at the station of the enterprise, time of idle times of cars on the separate ways. Information on busy time of separate ways is provided for assessment of load of parks, sections of a way.

Already at a stage of implementation of MDPS in NLMK Kaluga time expenditure of managers on control and registration of transactions of shift of the rolling stock on the ways of the enterprise was reduced. For November, 2018 all shunting work for TsZhDT is registered in the automatic mode. Automatic registration of shunting work not only releases time of managers, but also completely excludes a possibility of distortion of data on real time of execution of shunting transactions and duration of idle times of cars.

We made not the just difficult project on digitalization of elements of rail transportation at the plant. The solution allowing to use such indirect sign as change of number of wheel pairs on railway track section for online of tracking movements of each of hundreds of cars, control of the major KPI was received: idle time of cars, time of shunting and technology transactions, violation of the high-speed mode by locomotives. Dmitry Shutchenko, Chairman of the board of directors of ITL Consulting