A discussion on intelligent management system for centralized plotting and filing of Railway Design Institute

Abstract

This paper enumerates and analyzes problems existing in the process of printing and filing engineering and architectural drawings/records used in railway design. An archiving and processing system is proposed that can plot and file drawings centrally and intelligently based on the requirements of integrating information systems in railway survey and railway design hereinafter. Technical difficulties of designing and implementing such a system are discussed. These include auto detection and extraction of PLT drafting zone size, plotter load balancing strategy based on entropy, consistency of paper documents and the respective electronic documents, and etc. The initial and preliminary evaluation of the proposed approach is promising and showed the feasibility in real-life settings. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.