Over the past decade, railroads have implemented new technologies to help with three primary areas of the business — understanding the location of assets, the health of assets, and the condition status of assets.

With access to more data than ever before, railroads are creating data-driven decisions that optimize the service process for their customers by increasing transparency and reporting while decreasing maintenance downtime. To be successful, railroads will need a combination of data analytics and AI to make smart business decisions. Ones that deploy capital wisely and extend track life faster. Join us for a digital rail summit where we dive into the current ways railroads are using the internet of things to improve the customer experience and where we look at future uses and trends of IoT.

Learning Objectives:
  • Increase your understanding of current technology trends and the internet of things applications for rail
  • Review how customer expectations are accelerating rail's use of the internet of things
  • Learn how to use data for predictive analytics

Educational Agenda

CSX Precision Maintenance Tools for Data-Driven Decisions

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Wesley Thomas
SVP - GM Rail Operations
Sentient Science


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Dan Hampton
Manager Contract Services II
CSX

Learn how CSX uses Precision Maintenance tools to help maximize their return-on-investment (ROI) of preventive maintenance activities like grinding and friction management. Understand how they are using physics-based model with solving everyday commercial problems, and first Precision Scheduled Railroading initiative for Track Engineering.

Rail Pulse: Using Data to Enhance Customer Experience

Mike McClellan

Mike McClellan
Vice President Strategic Planning
Norfolk Southern

Rail Pulse is a first-of-its kind venture between Norfolk Southern, GATX Corporation, Genesee & Wyoming, TrinityRail, and Watco to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of GPS and other telematics technology across the North American railcar fleet. The technology currently be explored upon by Rail Pulse will help provide even greater transparency between railroads and the shippers on the location of assets.

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Dan Hampton

Dan Hampton

Manager Contract Services II
CSX

Hampton is the Manager of Contract Services for CSX Transportation in Jacksonville, FL, responsible for the contract programs of rail grinding, shoulder ballast cleaning, ditching, undercutting, yard cleaning, and vegetation management.

Hampton joined CSX in 2003 as a manager in Maintenance of Way in Fort Lauderdale, FL, working on the double track construction project between West Palm Beach and Miami, FL. He then worked four years in Design and Construction as a Project Engineer in Cincinnati, OH, managing over $32M of projects that included drainage, tunnels, bridges, roadbed stabilization, siding additions, line speed increases, flat yard, and hump yard projects. In 2010, he moved to Jacksonville, FL, to work in the cross-functional Process Excellence department as an Industrial Engineer and then as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt supporting the Engineering department. In 2014, he received the Chairman's Award of Excellence for work as an Enterprise Asset Management Project Manager, before beginning his current job in 2015.

Mike McClellan

Mike McClellan

Vice President Strategic Planning
Norfolk Southern

McClellan joined Norfolk Southern in 1998 as NS' Assistant Vice President of Intermodal Planning, became Vice President of Intermodal Marketing in February 2000, and Vice President of Intermodal & Automotive Marketing in February 2005. McClellan began his career in 1985 in the Marketing and Sales department of Conrail. Since then, McClellan has worked for the Transportation Practice of Ernst & Young as well as time as an independent transportation consultant.

McClellan serves on the Boards of the University of Denver's Intermodal Transportation Institute, the Virginia Maritime Association, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

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Wesley Thomas

SVP - GM Rail Operations
Sentient Science

Wesley Thomas is a member of the VTI Economics Group for the International Collaborative Research Initiative (ICRI) on Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) and Wear of Rails and Wheels, an international group who share research to improve the railway industry.

Wesley is experienced in economic return-on-investment (ROI) modeling, new business model introduction, and enterprise software-as-a-service products.

He works closely with customers and partners to connect science, digital tools, and financial value analysis to help organizations improve asset management, supply chain, and maintenance. For railroads, he is focused on helping providing evidence to quantify the value of methods to achieve cost savings for rail.




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