Introducing Railyard Shunting Planning Assistance Package, which reduces the number of work hours required to create schedules and reduces the amount of paper used for printing, thereby reducing the environmental burden (58% reduction in CO2 emissions).
Customer's issues
- Railyard shunting planning requires considering and confirming a wide range of constraints. ➝ Planning takes a lot of time and labor.
- Delays in digitization (printing completed plan schedules and storing forms) ➝ The customer wanted to reduce the amount of paper used for printing.
Functional unit: Railyard shunting planning work, conducted every day of the year (from plan preparation to plan creation)
Effects
- By using easy GUI operation or the replacement planning proposal function ➝ Reduced the work hours needed for creating railyard shunting plans.
- No need for printers because railyard shunting plans are digitalized ➝ Paperless operations are achieved, with reduced power consumption.
CO2 emissions: Reduction per year: 1t-CO2. CO2 reduction percentage = 58%
- Factors that reduce the burden on the environment
- Reduction of work hours
- Reduction of power consumption of equipment used
- Reduction of paper consumption
- Factors that increase the burden on the environment
- No factors increased the impact at the stage of actual use.
- The values of environment impact factors differ depending on the evaluation conditions and the evaluation model.
- This evaluation calculation uses Hitachi, Ltd.'s CO2 calculation method SI-LCA*1 at the stage of actual use (based on information as of June 2023) as the target of the evaluation.
- *1
- SI-LCA: System Integration-Life Cycle Assessment
The SI-LCA method complies with the Guideline for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Eco-Efficiency Evaluation (issued by The Japan Forum on Eco-efficiency in March 2006).