Rebulk Yard Switching · Early Access
A live map of every track, spot, and car — and an AI planner that sequences the switching work in the fewest moves. Built for industrial yards, plants, shortlines, and switch crews, and set up on your track layout, your spots, and your constraints.
Live simulation: two cars, buried on different tracks, coupled together. The optimizer sequences the trackmobile in the fewest moves; your crew works the same plan as a switch list.
Switching is a sequencing problem: on fixed track, every move can require three other moves first. Software plans that better than a whiteboard.
Every track, spot, and car in one live view: railcar locations, track occupancy, what's ready to work, what's waiting on release. The whiteboard, retired.
The AI planner weighs every car, track, and constraint, then sequences the fewest moves that satisfy the plan: less engine time, fewer touches per car.
Generated work orders your crew can run: pull this car, spot that one, in an order that doesn't undo itself two moves later.
Plan spots for the inbound consist and sequence outbound pulls, with pinned cars and do-not-work constraints respected. One click to re-plan when the consist changes.
The planner sees the same per-car dwell clocks as the rest of Rebulk, so cars nearing free-time limits get worked first — and track occupancy shows the capacity you actually have.
Yard moves write to the same car records as tracking, BOLs, and scale tickets, with no second system to reconcile.
A switch move costs engine time, crew time, and fuel, and bad sequencing multiplies it: dig out the wrong car first and you've touched four cars to place one. Cars wait longer for spots, dwell climbs, free time expires, and demurrage starts billing.
Yard supervisors solve this in their heads every morning, until they're off, volumes spike, or the yard fills past what mental math holds. The planner makes the sequencing explicit, repeatable, and one click to re-run when the inbound consist changes.
Tracking cars but not switching them yourselves? Start with Rebulk Track & Trace. Both share the same car records.
Yard Switching shares its car records with the Rebulk products already running rail operations for Venezia Transport and Usher Transport. Built for railroads & short lines, bulk terminals, and transloaders.
A car doesn't start or end in the yard. On the Rebulk Platform, the same record per car flows from the network to the yard to the shop to the dock.
Follows every car from release at origin, so the yard knows what's arriving before it shows up.
Explore Track & TracePlans where each car goes and the fewest moves to get it there.
Cars flagged bad-order carry their record into inspections, work orders, and repair history.
Explore Rail MaintenanceSpotted cars flow into unloading, inventory, documents, and billing on the same record.
Explore TransloadEvery product reads and writes the same record per car — no second system to reconcile, no integration project.
Rebulk Yard Switching gives a rail-served facility a live picture of its yard (which cars sit on which tracks and spots) and plans the switching work: which cars move, where, in what order. It replaces the whiteboard, the clipboard switch list, and the supervisor's mental math.
It became Rebulk Yard Switching. Switch planning is now one capability inside Yard, alongside the visual yard map, track occupancy, switch lists, arrival and departure planning, and dwell tracking. Same product, same early-access program, broader scope.
A warehouse YMS manages trucks and trailers in a parking yard. Rebulk Yard Switching deals with railcars on fixed track: cars can't pass each other, one move can require relocating three other cars first, and sequencing determines everything. It's built for rail: industrial yards, plants, and shortlines, not truck lots.
The AI planner treats the yard as a constraint problem: each car's current spot, its destination, track capacities, pinned or do-not-work cars, and crew limits. It searches for the sequence that completes the plan in the fewest moves. Supervisors review and adjust before the crew runs it.
Yes, they share one record per car. Yard moves update the same data that powers Track & Trace, BOL and scale ticket automation, dwell clocks, and customer reporting. No integration project.
Early access is open now for industrial yards, plants, shortlines, and rail-served facilities that switch their own yards. Request early access or book a demo to see the planner on your track layout.
Early access partners get Rebulk Yard Switching set up on their own track layout. Bring a recent switch list and we'll show you the sequence the optimizer would have run.
