PROBLEM

An American bulk materials and concrete solutions company ships by rail across approximately 700 railcars. Once a car left the yard, it went dark. If a car got left behind at a yard, they didn't find out until the train arrived without it. Then the hunt started.

Where was the car left? Who do we call? How do we get it moving again? 

Every hour spent on that hunt was an hour the material wasn't moving, and an hour of someone's day spent chasing a car instead of doing their job.

SOLUTION

This company put Morey's Slap-N-Track (SNT 1.2) on its railcars.

SNT 1.2 is a battery-powered asset tracker, proven to last up to 10 years or 10,000 pings in the field. It slaps right onto the car with no external power and no shop visit. It reports every time a car leaves or arrives at a yard, plus check-ins on a schedule they set, whether the car is moving or parked.

Now, they can see how long each car has been sitting, and whether a car left when it was supposed to.

OUTCOME

When a car doesn't leave the yard on time, their team sees it right away and calls the rail company.

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  Fewer delays. Catch problems at the yard, not at the destination.
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  Forgotten cars move again faster. No more after-the-fact hunt to figure out where a car was left.
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  Less time chasing cars. The team knows where to look before anyone has to start calling around.