Keep Safety Rates on the Right Track.
The nation’s largest railroad came to us with a challenge. After seeing initial declines in their reportable employee injury and safety incident rates, stagnation set in. The railroad had...
Machine Vision for Detecting Equipment Problems
This company operates equipment in motion at high speed. Certain components develop defects or damage that could cause...
Protecting the Public at Rail/Highway Crossings
Vehicle-train collisions at railroad crossings is a significant problem in North America...
Uncovering Adverse Safety Trends
Two companies were looking to identify developing trends in safety incidents with their employees...
Making a Railroad’s Employees Safer – An Open Source Case
After seeing the success of our project at another railroad, this company asked us to do...
Food Safety in Meat Processing Plants
A company that provides products and services to the animal health industry was looking to help meat...
Text Mining to Understand Accidents
A transportation company maintains a database of accidents. Along with data about each incident, textual narratives...
Predicting Legal Claims Costs
The senior general counsel of a company with tens of thousands of employees who sometimes work in hazardous conditions...
Focusing on Human Factor Derailments
A Class I railroad began focusing on reducing human factor derailments. Though incidents reported..
Is the Safety Triangle Valid?
A client for whom we had implemented a predictive safety analytics dashboard came to us with an interesting research proposition...
Pandemic Response
In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic our clients and other companies needed...
Weather Data in Analytics
Weather plays a factor in many of the subjects our case studies. Although the weather is often...