CrewVue Product Release
PS Technology, Inc. announced today that it will release the next version of their crew optimization application CrewVue to enhance their existing real-time crew management decision support tool leveraging the J2EE platform during the 3rd Quarter of 2008. With PS Technology’s extensive experience in the transportation industry, the solution has been architected to assist in optimizing the supply of crews throughout any rail network.
CrewVue provides the operations team up to the minute information about their entire crew network: supply versus demand, projected crew delay, current availability statistics, and pending manpower shortages. By increasing the planning window for the operations team, CrewVue will dramatically improve decision-making in a very time-sensitive, fast moving environment.
As a by-product of implementing PST’s Working Craft Service Suite , the level of information available for the men and women who work in a variety of variable scheduled environments dramatically improves. “By deploying the information already available inside the CrewVue system using relatively simple Java-based software, the railroads can provide a wealth of information to their employees, giving them better information about their scheduled start times. Most non railroad employees don’t struggle with knowing when to go to work each day; however, when you live your life connected to a phone, constantly checking your status, it becomes very difficult to regulate rest, soccer games with the kids, dates with the significant other, you name it,” says Julian Caldwell, Vice President Business Development. “We are excited that the Working Craft Service Suite provides more information that currently available on most railroads and will help all of the families who work in a very unpredictable environment.”
PS Technology’s CrewVue application provides a variety of planning modules in addition to the real-time crew information. More accurate manpower sizing, identification of qualification issues, better decision-making around the time off processes, improved crew utilization tools, and better service to the railroad’s customers are additional expected returns from this new launch.