Development of a Distributed Global Rail Car Scheduling and Management System (DGRCSM)

Procor Limited是一家铁路运输车辆生产公司，总部位于安大略萨尼亚，专注于私人铁路车辆租赁车队。Procor管理着一支由31，000多辆常规和特殊用途坦克和货运汽车组成的车队。 Procor公司目前有一个人工数据输入和调度系统，主要由Excel表格组成，这些表格很难维护，在全国各办事处共享。这个系统很容易出错。 通过拟议的项目，Procor有限公司正在与兰顿学院的信息技术和通信研究中心合作，为Procor的在线或基于内联网的轨道车辆管理和调度系统设计、实施和部署一个先进的分布式全球轨道车辆调度和管理系统（DGRCSM）。内部解决方案将使Procor Ltd.能够应对当前面临的所有挑战，并拥有完全自主的解决方案，而不依赖第三方，并使公司免受市场变化的影响，并确保他们能够在继续扩大业务的同时为客户提供量身定制的服务。 兰顿的研究团队将与Procor团队密切合作，开发和实施新系统。Procor将受益于拥有一个基于云的真实的时间系统，该系统是安全的，跨国的和多用户的，允许其车队的综合管理，其支持和维护内置。该解决方案有助于提高利用现代软件开发技术的灵活性，从而最大限度地降低总体成本，最大限度地减少中断并降低系统的安全风险。

Procor Limited is a railway shipping car producing company based in Sarnia Ontario, with a focus and expertise in private rail car rental fleet. Procor manages a fleet of more than 31,000 conventional and special purpose tank and freight cars. Procor currently has a manual data entry and scheduling system consisting mainly of Excel tables that are hard to maintain and they are shared nationally across their offices. This system is very susceptible to errors. Through the proposed project Procor Ltd. is collaborating with Lambton College's Information Technology and Communication Research Centre to design, implement and deploy a state of the art, advanced distributed global rail car scheduling and management system (DGRCSM) for Procor's online or intranet-based rail car management and scheduling system. An in-house solution would provide Procor Ltd. the ability to meet all the current challenges they face and have a solution that they fully own, not relying on 3rd parties, and providing the company with the freedom from market changes and ensuring their ability to provide tailored services to their clients as they continue to expand their business. Lambton's research team team will work with the Procor team closely to develop and implement the new system. Procor will benefit from having a cloud based, real time system that is secure, trans-national and multi-user allowing for integrated management of their fleet with its support and maintenance built in. The solution aids in the enhanced flexibility of utilizing modern software development techniques that minimize overall cost, minimize disruption and lower security risks for the system that.