1. CREW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CRIS & FOIS

2. OBJECTIVES & SCOPE
Maintain inventory of all Crews including position of home crew at out stations
Scheduling and assignment of Crew to trains
Monitoring road learning, training,RC,etc
Scheduling periodic rest
Modernization of Calls process
Crew productivity(hrs worked, km earned)
HOER
paperless lobby
To link all activity points
A tool for saving OT, Km all.
cover- lobby, CCC, dvn office , control office ,Zonal Rly.
CONTD.--

3. OBJECTIVE contd… Cover functions of all actors at above places.
Booking of Crew on links.
Booking of Crew for shunting duty
Driver monitoring by LI
Grading of Crew by LI
Employees self service
Essential information available on rail net
Allowance calculation
Circulars availability
Reports

4. FEATURES Central server Biometric and touch screen based Sign on/off
Paperless lobby
SMS for call on
Browser based application
Using FOIS network/COA
Server level messaging service with FOIS/COA/COIS
-Updating train arrival/departure times at Crew booking
- updating Crew particulars in FOIS
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5. FEATURES contd….
Working offline for Short duration in case of network disconnection, working and updating with central server later on connection.
LINUX OS, Oracle or DB2 for data base
Expandable up to 2500/3500 nodes
Driver knowledge evaluation quiz.
Real time data entry
IVRS & BA ? Not confirmed.
Calculation of benefit have not yet been done.

6. COST ESTIMATE
Detailed estimate of Rs crores sanction by Railway Board. This includes 2.75 crores for establishment etc. of FOIS organization.
302 locations of integrated lobbies to be covered.

7. Implementation strategy
System development for freight, coaching, shunting & EMU services by the end of May 06.
June 2006 central server deployment & implementation on one division with biometrics,SMS & railnet connectivity.
July 06 functional testing of the application
March 2007 at all the locations.

8. ISSUES Integration of lobbies Lack of infrastructure & manpower
Wide variation in practices posing probs in customisation of appl
Incorporation of features already available on cms running on rlys

9. PRESENTAION ON CREW MANAGEMNT BEING DEVELOPED BY CRIS.
Status on date: Manual /auto
Problem areas of manual and attempt of tackling these problem areas by exiting.
What we are going to achieve with new system? Why cant we achieve that through the existing auto system by up gradation/integration thereof.
Objective and scope and features (whether this includes all such features of existing ones. If not what is plan.
Issues in development of application and implementation in the field target time.

10. Existing vs New system applications
Features, scope , objectives simplification of booking process
Modernization of call process
Cost
Variation in practices (customization vs universalization).
Equipment existing
Integration of existing with new
Status on date vs future
Upgradation vs new?
Architecture
Capacity
Browser based vs client server based
Oracle replication

11. Development of applications-
Integration with FOIS/COIS/COA
Variation in practices
Lab testing
Field testing
Train and changes during timelines
Frequent quarries/replies
Audit /reliability
Data entry
FOIS time

12. Implementation
Integration of lobbies. Finalisation of locations
Ownership(I&C) of lobby
Training
Infrastructure
-RH/training facility/sparing of staff/gap between training and implementation/OCC/backup for 6 hrs vs cutoff
Site
Implementation team
FOIS time 30 max month with 24 min. need 45 officers