Announced details
Yard work planning at railway rolling stock depots, allocation of rolling stock movement and stabling locations, inspections, and splitting and coupling of train sets
Tasks related to shunting plans and form preparation completed in around 10 minutes instead of approximately 2 hours
共同開発 of a system for automatically creating yard work plans since 2024
Head office: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture; Representative Director: Kurasaka Shoji (倉坂昇治); railway operator
Fukuchiyama Branch, Suita General Rolling Stock Depot, JR West
In this announcement the company addresses none of Contract Value / Offering price / Impact on Business Performance.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Names of Products / Services Covered | AI-powered automated yard planning system / System for automatically creating yard work plans at railway rolling stock depots |
| Counterparty | West Japan Railway Company (JR West) |
| Counterparty overview | Head office: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture; Representative Director: Kurasaka Shoji (倉坂昇治); railway operator |
| Relationship with the Company | 共同開発 of a system for automatically creating yard work plans since 2024 |
| Launch date | April 2026 (actual: algorithm testing began at the Fukuchiyama Branch of the Suita General Rolling Stock Depot) |
| Applicable area | Yard work planning at railway rolling stock depots, allocation of rolling stock movement and stabling locations, inspections, and splitting and coupling of train sets |
| Location | Fukuchiyama Branch, Suita General Rolling Stock Depot, JR West |
| Quantitative Effects | Tasks related to shunting plans and form preparation completed in around 10 minutes instead of approximately 2 hours |
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The reasons the company gives
The company's own explanation, not something inferred from the numbers.Yard work plans must satisfy many constraints simultaneously, making their preparation manually highly labor-intensive and dependent on experience and expertise. The system is also intended to address the challenge of transferring technical knowledge.