Services
What We Do
CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. (CRBS) works diligently and collaboratively with our customers to maximize efficiencies in operations and maintenance. We are ‘boots on the ground’ with many years of real-life experience managing operations and maintenance of transit systems. We are driven by analysis-based decision making to deliver excellence in service delivery to the public.
At CRBS our mission is to enable our customers to build successful in-house change management capabilities through a holistic approach to support sustainable solutions. The services we provide are proven and sustainable. We’re a minority and veteran-owned business certified in eleven states across the US.
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Asset Management
Transit asset management plans are required for all Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grantees per Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st century (MAP-21) legislation. The benefits from enhanced asset management practices include improved safety and reliability, reduced costs, performance, better customer service, and optimized resource allocation.
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) requires transportation agencies to develop a Transit Asset Management (TAM) program including a comprehensive Asset Management Policy, Strategy, and Plan.
CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. can provide the expertise in developing an Asset Management Plans (AMP), asset inventories, condition assessments and capture existing maintenance asset hierarchies to better report your agency’s state of good repair for the National Transit Database (NTD) as well as the Federal Transit Administration (FTA’s) MAP-21 requirements.
We can support your data needs from the collection of asset data to the design of NTD reports and the training of your personnel to ensure a successful asset management program. CRBS can also provide on-going support for future needs.
CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. also provides certified asset management trainers that utilize endorsed Institute of Asset Management training modules. All Asset Management training modules can be customized to suit your agency’s needs. Whether you have a small team that is looking to further their understanding and knowledge, or hundreds of personnel that need to quickly get up to speed, we can help your agency.
Enterprise Asset Management Implementation
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) involves the management of the maintenance of physical assets of an organization throughout each asset’s lifecycle. EAM is used to plan, optimize, execute, and track the needed maintenance activities with the associated priorities, skills, materials, tools, and information. This covers the design, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance and decommissioning or replacement of Rolling stock, Equipment and Facilities.
CodeRed’s Areas of Support for EAMS Implementation, Integration & Business Process Engineering Services:
- Integration and Business Process Engineering Services
- Business Process Analysis Phase/Tasks
- Implementation Design Phase/Tasks
- Follow-Up and Review Support Services
- Change Management Support
Trainings
Our vast knowledge and experience with Asset Management software systems have allowed us to demonstrate a pivotal role in successfully implementing Trapeze, Maximo, and Infor systems at various public transit agencies. We conduct Business Process Analysis, field equipment -inventory and -database registration, recommend training methods and develop documentation to support superuser and end-user procedures within these software systems. We apply industry best practices to support the organization’s goal to optimize the utilization of these Asset Management software systems to make data-driven maintenance decisions, accomplish status and metrics reporting, prioritize capital investments, and accomplish required FTA NTD reporting Configuration and collection of required data fields make it possible to fulfill NTD reporting, including on the A-30: Revenue Vehicle Inventory Form, A-35: Service Vehicle Inventory Form, A-15: Facility Inventory, A-20: Transitway Mileage Form, and A-90: Transit Asset Management Performance Measures Target Form.
CodeRed evaluates training method options to optimize the utilization of Trapeze, Maximo, and Infor Asset Management software systems and consequently develops training documentation that aligns with business processes for employee roles within organizations. Through focused training and on-demand availability of step-by-step and multimedia procedure documentation, end-users confidently collect and enter data, and the software system presents valuable information for utilization by maintenance, operations, materials management, support workforce management, supervisory planning, and provides status and metrics for upper management and stakeholders.
Figure-1 Asset Management Software System
Figure-1 presents a visually engaging and dynamic representation of our highly advanced Asset Management Software System. Designed to optimize the management and maintenance of valuable assets, this software stands at the forefront of cutting-edge technology in the field.
CRBS’s Asset Management Inventory Support Tool
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the Act (MAP-21) created rules to improve public transportation by monitoring and managing assets. This leads to enhanced safety, reliability, performance, cost reduction, customer service improvement, and resource optimization. CodeRed Business Solutions offers expertise in developing Transit Asset Management Plans, conducting asset inventories and condition assessments, and modifying maintenance management systems to meet MAP-21 requirements. After extensive research, we discovered a lack of existing tools that adequately fulfilled the requirements set forth by MAP-21 and National Transit Database (NTD) reporting. In response, CRBS developed a specialized tool to address this specific need.
Introducing the Asset Management Inventory Support Tool, a cutting-edge web-based application designed by CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. This efficient tool saves time by enabling users to capture asset information directly at the asset’s physical location. Not only does it offer real-time data capture capabilities, but it also incorporates Geo-Information System (GIS) technology to accurately record the inspection’s geographic location. This Asset Management Support Tool helps organizations comply with FTA regulations
Figure-2 FTA Required TAM Plan Elements
Figure-2 shows the TAM Plan elements that are required by each transit organization. Since Tier II providers generally operate fewer complex systems, their TAM Plan requirements are not as extensive.
Operations and Maintenance
Understanding the challenges facing the public transit industry, CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. provides its clients with a critical, experience-based evaluation to consistently operate, maintain, and rehabilitate new and existing transit assets. These assets are essential for delivering safe and reliable transit services to the public.
At CodeRed, our team of Operation and Maintenance Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) is dedicated to developing reliable and innovative solutions that prioritize safety, quality, and sustainability. We are committed to reducing both long-term and short-term operating costs while maximizing internal efficiencies of operations for our clients.
Through our expertise, we offer valuable insights into the needs, requirements, and principal operating issues relevant to successful transit systems and facilities. Our focus on operational excellence empowers our clients to optimize their transit operations, ensuring seamless service delivery and customer satisfaction. Whether it’s assisting with fleet management, implementing maintenance best practices, or optimizing operations processes, CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. is your trusted partner in achieving operational excellence within the public transit sector.
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
CodeRed Business Solutions Inc. (CRBS) has successfully implemented a sustainable RCM program at St. Louis Metro that has served the agency for more than 15 years. This program has effectively reduced maintenance and operating costs, improved customer satisfaction, and provided a reliable method to enhance short and long-term maintenance budgeting. The CRBS team possesses the expertise to develop a structured RCM that will ultimately reduce your agency’s maintenance costs over time, achieved through effective planning to ensure the availability of correct parts and resources. Additionally, a well-designed and executed RCM will lower overall labor costs, prevent breakdowns, and minimize rework resulting from poor maintenance diagnostic skills.
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a predictive maintenance process that ensures assets continue to perform as expected in their operating context. It is commonly used to achieve improvements in various fields, such as establishing safe minimum levels of maintenance, making changes to operating procedures and strategies, and establishing capital maintenance regimes and plans.
The successful implementation of RCM will lead to the following benefits:
- Increase performance and availability of transit assets
- Reduce maintenance costs by as much as 50 percent
- Increase maintenance technicians’ productivity
- A massive reduction in unscheduled downtime to avoid losses and missed operating goals and objectives.
Overall, adopting RCM can bring substantial advantages to your organization, resulting in improved asset management, cost savings, and enhanced operational efficiency.
Engineering
CodeRed connects core engineering services with specialty expertise to provide customer-centric solutions/services in the transit sector. Our solution caters to complex integration of various engineering fields and technologies utilizing emerging technologies and drive digital transformation through innovative processes and automation.
CodeRed has over combined 50+ years of experience in helping transit utilities across the globe in transforming their operating assets and accelerate adoption of emerging technologies to have dynamic information on their day-to-day operations. Our team seamlessly integrates designs from OEMs, suppliers & customers, creates prototypes, and conducts thorough validation and type-testing as required in the solution process.
CodeRed is a full-service partner that tailors its approach and solution to meet the client needs. In the transportation sector, our SMEs possess comprehensive capabilities throughout the transit life-cycle process spanning infrastructure facilities and all rolling stock including rail cars, bus fleets and non-revenue vehicles.
Our services include:
- Feasibility studies
- Customized design solutions
- Manufacturing solutions for train sets and sub-systems
- Failure diagnosis analysis and validation services
- Supply chain solutions
- Upgradation services and retrofitting solutions
- Inspection and testing services
- Digital transformation and process automation services
- Training solutions, including traditional and virtual/AR options