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
                                       Founded in the           We’ve assembled over



                                        UK                      750,000
We help teams working on large-scale
  construction projects make better
 operational decisions by accurately                            construction schedules
    forecasting the future with AI      in 2017                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                                                                       Did your system flag
       we that we’ll finish             How long will                                         the risks we’ve added
       the project by our               this activity                                         to the risk register?
       planned end-date?               actually take?                                        What have we missed?




 FORECAST PROJECT            FORECAST ACTIVITY
                                                                                                                     DISCOVER
  DURATIONS WITH              DURATIONS WITH                 VALIDATE                     UNCOVER
                                                                                                                  OPPORTUNITIES TO
   UNPARALLELED                UNPARALLELED                KNOWN RISKS                  HIDDEN RISKS
                                                                                                                SHORTEN PROGRAMMES
     ACCURACY                    ACCURACY




             MANAGE STAKEHOLDER           REDUCE THE RISK OF         ALLOW FOR BETTER             IMPROVE RELIABILITY
                EXPECTATIONS               PROJECT OVERRUN              BUDGETING                   FOR PASSENGERS


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



            FORECAST PROJECT                 FORECAST ACTIVITY
             DURATIONS WITH                   DURATIONS WITH                    UNCOVER
              UNPARALLELED                     UNPARALLELED                   HIDDEN RISKS
                ACCURACY                         ACCURACY




                                         75%                           £30m
     Aug 2018            Nov 2019
      (P10)                (P90)
      nPlan forecast range for
       final project milestone
                                      Activity forecasting accuracy    The estimated value of
                                       of the model nPlan trained     mitigating the hidden risks
       - the project actually ended          for Network Rail          identified by nPlan’s AI
       in the middle of this range,                                        during the pilot
            in May 2019 (=P63)
                               “  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
ALASTAIR FORBES                  means in turn we can improve reliability for passengers.
Head of Programme
     Controls
   Network Rail
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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
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