Customer challenge
Intermodal Management System for precise control of Terminal operations product lines
Difficulty in managing the Intermodal Management System for precise control of Terminal operations product lines for the following features:
- Container location assignment
- Work Order generation for cranes, hostlers, grunts, OTR trucks
- Asset tracking & inventory management for containers, hostlers/ IBC/ chassis
Scope
- Development of next generation Smart Intermodal Management System for precise control of terminal operations product lines by using cloud based PREDIX platform with the following features:
- Container location assignment
- Work order generation for cranes, hostlers, grunts, OTR trucks
- Asset tracking & inventory management for containers, hostlers/IBC/chassis
Solution
- Product Owners(ship) operating in SAFe framework
- Development Platform: Java8, Spring boot with Micro Service, Restful APIs, Rabbit MQ, Redis cache, Angular2, Polymer, Node js
- Test Platform: Protractor, JUNIT, Rest Assured, Selenium
- Service Design tools: IntelliJ, Maven, Github, Jenkins, Rally, Confluence
Features
Features
- SIMS, a next generation terminal operating system builds on OASIS platform.
- Independent Scrum teams including Product Owners(ship) operating in SAFe framework
Benefits
- Improves terminal throughput
- Increases railcar / asset utilization
- Provides real-time container visibility to users & customers
- Decreases container dwell time
Results
- Improves terminal throughput by 10%
- Increases railcar / asset utilization by 10-15%
- Increase asset tracking by 80%
- Savings utilizing Quest Global resources vs. hiring internal resources