CASE STUDY

How Network Rail uses nPlan’s risk management
and forecasting AI to deliver projects on time, on
budget and improve reliability for passengers

About nPlan
We help teams working on large-scale
construction projects make better
operational decisions by accurately
forecasting the future with AI

Founded in the

UK
in 2017

We’ve assembled over

750,000
construction schedules
into the world’s biggest
past project dataset

Customers include:

Our insights are delivered
through our web-based platform
nPlan Insights, and by our elite
risk engineering team

Why does Network Rail work with nPlan?
How confident are
we that we’ll finish
the project by our
planned end-date?

FORECAST PROJECT
DURATIONS WITH
UNPARALLELED
ACCURACY

Did your system flag
the risks we’ve added
to the risk register?
What have we missed?

How long will
this activity
actually take?

FORECAST ACTIVITY
DURATIONS WITH
UNPARALLELED
ACCURACY

MANAGE STAKEHOLDER
EXPECTATIONS

VALIDATE
KNOWN RISKS

REDUCE THE RISK OF
PROJECT OVERRUN

ALLOW FOR BETTER
BUDGETING

UNCOVER
HIDDEN RISKS

DISCOVER
OPPORTUNITIES TO
SHORTEN PROGRAMMES

IMPROVE RELIABILITY
FOR PASSENGERS

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Results from nPlan’s work on the Great Western Main Line project

FORECAST PROJECT
DURATIONS WITH
UNPARALLELED
ACCURACY

Aug 2018

(P10)

Nov 2019

(P90)

nPlan forecast range for
final project milestone
- the project actually ended
in the middle of this range,
in May 2019 (=P63)

FORECAST ACTIVITY
DURATIONS WITH
UNPARALLELED
ACCURACY

UNCOVER
HIDDEN RISKS

75%

£30m

Activity forecasting accuracy
of the model nPlan trained
for Network Rail

The estimated value of
mitigating the hidden risks
identified by nPlan’s AI
during the pilot

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ALASTAIR FORBES
Head of Programme
Controls
Network Rail

By championing innovation and using forward-thinking
technologies, we can deliver efficiencies in the way we plan
and carry out rail upgrade and maintenance projects. It also has
the benefit of reducing the risk of project overruns, which
means in turn we can improve reliability for passengers.

FIND OUT MORE

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nPlan is trusted by Project Teams at more than 30 companies, including

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Our mission is to unlock a trillion
dollars of new project value through
machine learning-powered schedule
risk analysis
Would you like to find out more about nPlan
and get a demo of nPlan Project, our unique
software? If so, all you need to do is get in
touch with us at sales@nplan.io.
We look forward to hearing from you!

CONTACT
Email: sales@nplan.io
Website: nplan.io
Phone: +44 (0) 208 051 4542
OFFICES
UK: 133 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7PT
AUS: 9 Harris Street, Pyrmont, NSW 2009

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