Optimization Software for Maritime and Inland Terminals
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INFORM specializes in AI and optimization software to improve operational decision making. Based in Aachen, Germany, the company has been in the optimization business for 50 years and serves a wide span of logistics industries including ports, maritime, and intermodal terminals. With a broad range of standalone and add-on software modules, INFORM’s unique blend of algorithmic based software expertise, rich industry experience, and big world thinking delivers huge value for their customers.
INFORM has been chosen to supply its Yard Optimiser and Crane Optimiser add-on modules to US intermodal operator Norfolk Southern’s Rossville and Austell terminals. Several
Independent assessment platform EcoVadis has presented INFORM the Silver Medal award, confirming the company’s growing sustainability initiatives. With an overall score of 59 points, INFORM
INFORM has been chosen by Associated British Ports (ABP) to provide a scalable operating system solution to optimise vehicle terminal management. In a statement, INFORM
Inland terminals and smaller ports need to be supported in their efforts to utilise artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalisation technologies as part of global efforts
INFORM has successfully integrated “Linker”, a proven middleware, into its Synrotess Rail Scheduler, an add-on solution to optimise train unloading and loading processes. As a
In Port Technology International and INFORM’s first of a new video series on best practice of AI in ports, Matthew Wittemeier, Marketing and Customer Relations
The port and maritime industry is bursting with varying stakeholders and actors, all with their own interests and investments that they rightly aim to protect
Dinges Logistics selected Inform’s Intermodal TOS in January to replace their existing system at their Grünstadt container terminal. This represents the smallest Intermodal TOS deployment
Inform has ranked 5th in the Digital Pioneers of Medium-Sized Businesses of 2020 as compiled by German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche. Inform is a market leader
Train Load Optimizer
Train Load Optimizer plans, builds, and loads optimized outbound trains while improving slot utilization and avoid adverse operational side effects.
Rail Scheduler
Rail Scheduler improves the utilization of transfer points between rail processes and your yard increasing crane and yard vehicle productivity.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning improves the accuracy of operational data used for real-time operational decision-making and long-term strategic management planning.
Crane Optimizer
Crane Optimizer increases crane productivity by reducing travel and equipment interferences as well as leveraging double-cycling moves when suitable
Vehicle Optimizer
Vehicle Optimizer increases vehicle utilization across all equipment types while reducing travel and lowering maintenance costs.
Yard Optimizer
Yard Optimizer provides an optimized yard allocation for load units to reduce rehandles and improve resource and storage are utilization.
Time Slot Management
Time Slot Management shortens external truck queues and traffic while allieviating gate congestion through optimized arrival time slot allocations.
Truck Scheduler
Truck Scheduler shortens external truck on premise turnaround times through an optimized sequencing and allocation of transfer points.
12/01/2022
Data strategy part 3: data driven decision making
In 2020, INFORM kicked off a three-part series on data strategy. Now, over a year later, they are back concluding the series with Part 3, the third and final installment looking at data science applications.
Data scien…
17/09/2020
Data Management is Fundamental
In 2012, MIT Sloan published an article explaining the “Big Data Revolution.” The authors emphasised the necessity to utilise the tremendous amounts of data that are being generated through digitisation, the Internet and …
17/09/2020
Economics, Diversity, and the Human-Automation Partnership
Inform has proven that the company is not shy to explore the future and what it might hold for our industry. From the original 2038: A Smart Port Story through to insightful presentations at both our Container Terminal Au…
03/08/2020
Upgrading Legacy Systems in Ports and Terminals: A 'How-to Guide'
In Inform's latest Port Technology paper: Upgrading Legacy Systems in Ports and Terminals, Inform explores the roadblocks and challenges that are common in legacy-system-replacement projects and pull insights from several…
08/07/2020
Automating Rail Operations: Considering the Full Picture
This paper by Inform explores automation solutions available for rail or intermodal terminal operations.
In doing so, it goes beyond the typical “autonomous equipment” thinking to explore how automated decision and de…
31/03/2020
"Screwed": The Real Value of Data
Data is the digital screw, figuratively speaking. Data has moved from being a simple by-product of the application of technology to becoming its focus.
We’ve moved from ignoring the data produced (focusing on
outcomes…
04/03/2020
New Business Models: For Technology Projects in Ports and Terminals
Beyond the hyped promise of emerging technologies, automation has now been in operation long enough for data analysts to begin to isolate trends within datasets, and in turn, this creates new realms for data experts to ex…
14/11/2019
2038: A Smart Port Story -Part 3
Port Technology International is proud to present the third and final installment of '2038: A Smart Port Story' from INFORM's Senior Vice President Dr Eva Savelsberg and Matthew Wittemeier .
Part 3 was formally…
01/11/2019
Going Green with AI An Innovative Look into Intermodal Rail
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seemingly
popping up everywhere these days. As a niche AI system provider, INFORM has
been delivering AI solutions for just over two decades, and we have found that
within the maritime sect…
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