Role of User Interface Design in Adoption of Innovations
It’s customary to promote innovations by emphasizing the benefits such as efficiency, cost saving, better quality, and so on. But before an innovation could benefit the users, there lies a big question: will the target audience adopt or even try ...
Year 2019: Partnerships Recap
This is the second part of our blog looking back at milestones that we achieved during 2019. Our proudest achievements are only possible with our partners, so here is a recap of the key partnerships made or strengthened during this ...
Year 2019: Product Development Milestones
2019 was an incredible growth year at TekTracking, packed with accomplishments and learning experiences. As we reflect on 2019 and summarize our accomplishments the two words that come to mind are “Partnerships & Product Development” as they capture succinctly how ...
The Data Challenge and Remote Condition Monitoring Opportunities
Efficient, safe, and profitable rail operations depend on several things, among which one key factor is the asset health of railway infrastructure. The most common barrier to ensuring good asset health is that many transit agencies and freight railroads don’t ...
Safety Benefits of Linear Asset Management
Safety is the front and center of the technology innovations in the railroad industry. Most companies spend millions on enhancing and introducing safety features into their solutions annually. In this post we’ll discuss 3 ways that a smart linear asset ...
How to Identify and Minimize the Hidden Costs of Asset Inventory
Many transit agencies in the US are scrambling to identify and quantify the state of good repair for infrastructure assets like rail, turnouts, switches, frogs, roadbed, interlockings, grade crossings, catenary poles and wire, and the dozens of additional capital assets ...
3 Ways to Overcome Resistance to Technology Change
Linear Asset Management Solutions provide huge benefits to railroad companies in terms of increased efficiency, safety, and reliability. If your company is still weighing the options for updating or augmenting your existing Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system with Linear Asset ...
Linear Asset Management: The Missing Link in EAM
In the world of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), it is common practice to use a single system that claims to manage all assets within the transit authority’s operation. These systems are focused on hierarchical relationships of sub-systems and critical components ...
Top 3 Essential Features of a Good Linear Asset Management Solution
Traditional EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) systems enlisted by large Transit agencies are typically focused around the largest and most complex assets that the agency must track such as buildings and rolling stock. These systems do well at linking costs, maximizing ...