Crew Management System is software which provides information regarding railway crew at all times. It provides information regarding the presence of crew at home station or at out station, maintains their status-wise records and assigns crew to trains. It also maintains information regarding the periodic and other rests, Road Learning & Traction knowledge. The software systems gives SMS alerts to management and supervisors in case the crew levels falls below alarm level likely to effect the train operations. It is capable of booking crew on Coaching, Shunting,Freight services in the form of Links and Rosters. The software system has tools to support the safety monitoring of the crew by it nominated Inspectors, monitoring of the crew knowledge through Quiz and has capablity to make the crew read the latest safety circulars put into the system for reading by the crew.


Functionalities of CMS

1. Optimum and effective utilization of train crew by maintaining inventory of all the crews at home station and out station

2. Effective scheduling and assignment of train of crew by receiving information of train calls depending upon the type of Traction and sections to be covered and assign the most suitable crew.

3. Manpower planning for ensuring the availability of appropriate crew by monitoring the Road learning and training of crew to operate the locomotive of different traction and gauges.

4. To serve as a tool for controlling the payment of over time and kilometer allowance.

5. Monitoring the training of staff due for promotion and refresher courses and also the staff whose competency certificate is due for renewal.

6. Monitor the 10 hours duty and HOER rules by providing advance information of the crew and past trend analysis of the sections.

7. Scheduling periodic rest based on the total duty hours completed from the beginning of the fortnight.
Monitoring the productivity of the crew by calculating the total hours of duty worked, total kilometers earned by each staff.

8. Recording the cases of act of malingering and excessive leave.

9. Serve as a tool for giving calls to crew in effective manner through manual and SMS method.

10.Assist in monitoring by the LI/TI of the drivers and appropriately grading of the crews.

11. Serve as a tool for upgrading the knowledge of the crew and continuously evaluating their performance through QUICK (Quiz to improve crew knowledge).