Predicting and Understanding Adverse Rail Network Events
Railroads can be severely impacted by interruptions to the flow of trains on thier network...
Understanding Litigation Trends using an Employee Reporting System
An employer of tens of thousands of employees maintains a hotline for employees to anonymously...
Uncovering Adverse Safety Trends
Two companies were looking to identify developing trends in safety incidents with their employees...
Forecasting Maintenance Requirements
A transportation service company provides maintenance services to very large fleets. They needed...
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...
Identifying the Drivers of Employee Attrition
For its key operations, the company relies on workers who require extensive training which takes the course...
Predictive Maintenance for Trucks
A mining company relies on high-payload-capacity trucks to haul extracted material for extraction of ore and...
Text Mining to Understand Accidents
A transportation company maintains a database of accidents. Along with data about each incident, textual narratives...
Improving Fuel Conservation
A transportation company spends over a billion dollars a year on fuel. Even a 1% savings in fuel consumption...
Machine Vision for Detecting Equipment Problems
This company operates equipment in motion at high speed. Certain components develop defects or damage that could cause...
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...