Siemens Business Services – modern technological solutions for the railways

 

Siemens Business Services is a leading world supplier of complex IT and communication solutions and services.

 

For the successful overcoming of challenges, which railways face today, the company offers a number of unique solutions and services:

 

ROMAN is an integrated solution, developed in-house to cater for the specific requirements of Austrian railways (ÖBB). This is an innovative, homogenous product, built on the modular principle and based on modern technologies. The state-of-the-art system for control and monitoring of train timetables along domestic and international lines is about to become an international standard in the generation and effective management of railway traffic.

 

The main functionalities of ROMAN are: infrastructure management; calculation of train running time; timetable planning; timetable simulation; production and reporting; system administration and customer administration; interface exporting; modern, interactive, graphic, user-oriented interfaces; standard data base server; UNIX and WINDOWS platforms; maintenance of autonomous laptops and web-based route monitoring.

 

The application Passenger timetable covers the traffic of domestic passenger railway transport and the traffic along international corridors, defined by the International Railway Union (UIC).

 

In its turn, the Freight Information System is an integrated software solution, supporting business processes, related to sales and accounting of transport and logistic services. This is the first uniform, global system for control over the total freight capacity of the wagon and of combined freight services. It makes it possible to: decentralise responsibilities, thus defining them in a better way; calculate tariff rates quickly; reduce manual entry of data and avoid multiple entry of one and the same data, thus enhancing transparency. Much more accounting is performed automatically and the overall quality and speed of the processes is enhanced.

 

SAP for the railways is a specific package of integrated solutions, supporting business processes in freight railway services, passenger services and infrastructure investment.

 

Wagon fleet management by SAP-PM (Maintenance and overhaul) is used for the administration of wagon fleets and the assessment of overhaul performance.