Crew management system is aimed at providing information regarding the crew at all times. It assist user in providing information regarding the presence of crew at home station or out station, maintain their status-wise records and assign crew to the trains. It shall also maintain information regarding the periodic and other rests, Road Learning, Traction Knowledge, Training Scheduling, PME, DAR actions etc.

The software Crew management system is being developed with the following objective: -

1. Optimum and effective utilization of crew by maintaining inventory of all crews at home stations and at out stations.
2. Effective scheduling and assignment of train crew by receiving information of train call and depending upon the type of traction and sections to be covered, assign the most suitable crew.
3. Manpower planning for ensuring availability of appropriate crew by monitoring road learning and training of crew to operate the locomotive of different traction and gauges.
4. Schedule periodic rests of the crew based on total duty hours completed from the beginning of the fortnight.
5. Serve as a tool for giving calls to crew in a most effective manner.
6. Monitoring of training of staff due for promotion and refresher courses and also the staff whose competency certificate is due for renewal.
7. Monitoring of the crew productivity by calculating total hours of duty worked, total kilometers earned by each staff
8. Monitor 10 Hrs duty and HOER rules by providing prior information of the crew and past trend analysis of the sections.
9. To server as a tool for controlling payment of the over time and kilometer allowance.
10. Act as a tool for making the crew lobbies more or less paperless.
    

    The CMS system is a role based, workflow oriented software which makes user carry out the various steps of the workflow one at a time by the person who is responsible for the act. Unless a step is completed the next step shall not take place. for example :-

    • Traffic supervisor creates a demand based on train running for crew (TA).
    • Unless a TA has been generated the Train Clerk can not book the crew and server him.
    • Once the call has been served the crew has to acknowledge the call.
    • The call acknowledge information is entered by the crew through SMS in automated mode and manually by the TNC in paper call mode.
    • Unless the crew call has been acknowledged the crew can not sign into the system.
    • Once the crew signs on the supervisor approves his transaction.
    • The crew signs OFF at the other end if he has performed journey as per the call served particulars else the system does not authorize him to sign OFF.
    • The crew on sign OFF is required to be approved by supervisor.
    • Once in a day at 10 AM (Presently ) all such crew who have signed OFF and the movement approved are credited their running allowance for the movement done so far.