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To increase operating efficiency and reduce costs, Canadian Pacific Railway recently purchased Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Thoroughbred Yard Enterprise System (TYES) operational software, which is designed to help manage rail-car moves in and around yards and terminals.
Needing to adapt TYES to its own operating environment and business needs, CPR Feb. 12 created a 10-year partnership with DMR Consulting to help the Class I adapt, implement and operate the software.
The $20 million partnership pact includes software-development and
outsourcing contracts, which include future application enhancements.
NS' TYES software system relies on a network of sensors, placed along both sides of a track near classification yards' and terminals' entrances and exits, that scan passing cars' identification tags to obtain a car's number and type, and waybill information. TYES also records a car's speed and direction.
Field personnel use the data derived from the software to place and pull cars when building trains. The information also is sent to a central-transportation database, along with other critical shipment data.
2/13/2002
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CPR taps consultant to tailor NS' software to its own operations
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To increase operating efficiency and reduce costs, Canadian Pacific Railway recently purchased Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Thoroughbred Yard Enterprise System (TYES) operational software, which is designed to help manage rail-car moves in and around yards and terminals.
Needing to adapt TYES to its own operating environment and business needs, CPR Feb. 12 created a 10-year partnership with DMR Consulting to help the Class I adapt, implement and operate the software.
The $20 million partnership pact includes software-development and
outsourcing contracts, which include future application enhancements.
NS' TYES software system relies on a network of sensors, placed along both sides of a track near classification yards' and terminals' entrances and exits, that scan passing cars' identification tags to obtain a car's number and type, and waybill information. TYES also records a car's speed and direction.
Field personnel use the data derived from the software to place and pull cars when building trains. The information also is sent to a central-transportation database, along with other critical shipment data.
