1. Liability Continuity System (LCS) Update
Mark Hawkins
ACACSO
November 11 – 13, 2015

2. Agenda Migration Update LCS Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
LCS Going Forward
LCS Monitoring

3. The LCS Migration is Complete!!!
LCS was the last system to migrate from the Railinc mainframe
The official cutover was June 7
The LCS TAG provided oversight, direction and significant testing assistance

4. How is LCS Performing?
Increase in the consistency of the application of business rules
Corrected one defect post-migration
Process has allowed team to improve interaction between LCS and other Railinc systems

5. LCS & DDCT Working Together
The Damaged & Defective Car Tracking System (DDCT) now shares incident specifics with LCS
By receiving this information LCS can properly assign liability when multiple DDCT incidents are open

6. LCS TAG Continues Post-Migration
The LCS TAG is continuing to work through a few open items after the implementation
These potential enhancements will improve the accuracy of LCS
Any enhancements will be implemented in Q and will be communicated to the industry

7. LCS Future Enhancements
Override of “999999” SPLC for DDCT events
Bad Order events disallowed for GAP record logic
Haulage-End TRAIN II messaging
Correction of a messaging setup anomaly dealing with illogical interchanges

8. LCS Monitoring
Railinc is implementing robust monitoring technology across several industry-critical systems (Wiley)
Technical and Business resources are working to build a dashboard that can alert the team to any issues with LCS or TRAIN II messaging

9. Customer TRAIN69 Messages

10. Monitoring Phase 2 Standard Reports Research Tools
More proactive reporting of potential issues
Improved controls
Better awareness

11. Thank You!
Mark Hawkins Product Manager AAR Asset Utilization & Compensation