Smartpath Software, developers of the class-leading Loc8 asset management software, have risen to the challenges placed on it by the rail management sector to keep the trains rolling.

On a recent client engagement with one of the world’s largest privately own rail networks, Smartpath was faced with having to manage the tracking and dispatch of faults across a network that stretches of 2000km, with little or no mobile coverage and technicians being offline for days on end. With satellite communication not an option, Smartpath implemented its new tablet PC edition of Loc8, complete with online / offline synchronization, GPS tracking & mapping, and full asset management functions.

The tablet edition, combined with Loc8′s powerful help-desk and work order management features, allows the network operations center for the network, located some 1200km away from the rail operations, to actively lodge an array of faults and dispatch them in real-time to technicians right across the network.

As a result of managing these challenges, Smartpath has been enagaged by two other rail operators to help solve their similar problems, and Smartpath has released it’s Loc8 OnTrack solution.

With Loc8 OnTrack, Smartpath gives rail operators an amazing fault & network maintenance tool. Its specialist rail operations team provides a product tailored to the complexity & technicality of the rail operator. As a result, it is used by some of the largest rail networks. Loc8 OnTrack helps rail operators with:

  • Rail asset management & maintenance
  • Fault management & tracking to resolution
  • Delay accounting for delays resulting from faults
  • Locomotive, rolling-stock, signals, level-crossing, & track maintenance (preventative & reactive)
  • Network assets, allowing system “chains” for fault impact analysis & delay management
  • In-field technician mobility & real-time, remote job dispatch
  • RFID tracking of locomotives, rolling-stock and sub-components, such as axels
  • Integration to enterprise reporting, such as SAP & Oracle

Loc8 is the next evolution of asset management & field service management software, giving small, medium and large enterprises unprecedented operational control, maintenance, and tracking of their assets.

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