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ISSS To Hold Virtual Event With Railway Age Contributors May 25, 2021 ISSS To Hold Virtual Event With Railway Age Contributors Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor Sonia Bot, Chief Executive of The BOT Consulting Group Inc., and Tony Zenga, President of both the ISSS Canada Chapter and CMTIGroup Inc., will discuss Safety Doesn’t Happen By Accident: The Case for System Safety in Industry 4.0 at ISSS’s May 26 event. The International System Safety Society (ISSS) on May 26 will present the first of a three-part virtual series, Safety ...

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: Anticipating, Avoiding Unintended Consequences Photo by Nathan Cervantes The digital disruption doesn’t have to be disruptive. Here’s how to recognize and address volatility. Digital disruption, the transformation caused by emerging digital technologies and business models, is a reality across industries worldwide, including railroading. It is a paradigm shift that is here to stay, with bone-deep effects for all organizations. Organizations are now challenged to think about their operating principles. They must realize that while strategy is of paramount importance...

As the railroad industry is going through its digital transformation—such as implementing broadband communications and applications that leverage Cloud technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for operational and commercial purposes—we are finding there is a clear lag in the deployment of technologies vs. what technologies enable. We call this the cascading technology trap or “The Trap”: Technologies are evolving at a significantly faster pace than the ability of organizations to adapt. This problem is not unique to the railroad in...