Case Study: CSX Transportation cuts past-due locomotive maintenance by 50% with Optym's routing solution

CSX Transportation cuts past-due-Q locomotives by 50% with Optym

Optym developed a solution for CSX Transportation to address the challenge of routing locomotives for mandatory quarterly maintenance. CSX faced a significant business problem as many locomotives were becoming past-due for maintenance before reaching repair shops, which forced them out of service and hurt productivity. The company needed a system to direct these locomotives just-in-time to align with shop capacities and federal regulations.

Optym's approach was to design and build a real-time decision support system using optimization algorithms. This system generated dynamic routing recommendations for locomotives needing maintenance, adapting to dispatchers' decisions much like a GPS reroutes. The implementation reduced the average daily number of past-due locomotives by about 50%, dramatically decreased day-to-day variance, and generated a full return on investment within one year of deployment.

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