The Total Rail Projects handles:

the management of 350 wagons on site the transport between 2 Total Sites, in Gonfreville and Carling transport of ADR Products increase of the rail traffic the location of the wagons through an RFID Interface. For the eLisa Rail project, Pulsar developed 3 different applications: Background: treatment of files in I/O Foreground: Windows application PDA: Pocket application with SOAP service.

Management of the wagons before eLisa Rail: board updated manually.



Management of the wagons with the eLisa Rail application:

• Quick and clear overview of all site ways
• Information on the ways: number of wagons, consignment
• Information on the wagons: anomaly, status, product, etc.

Here below, a screenshot of the application. Through this screen, the user can specify one or more search criteria to find a wagon (e.g.: search by status, product, etc.)




Clicking on a wagon in the result grid opens its identification sheet:



A transit into practice

1. A wagon arrives on site and is identified at the hand of a PDA:
   • scan of the RFID: opening of the wagon sheet on the PDA
   • validation of the technical sheet
   • entry wagon control





2. Synchronization of the PDA with the database: update of the rail tracks and update of the wagon data.
3. Combination of the wagon with SAP orders
4. Unloading:
• control before by loaders
• weighing
• control after by loaders
5. Exit of the site