Manufacturing\Chemicals
Nature of Project
Production Line Control System
DEC VAX VMS to IBM Netfinity Windows NT
FORTRAN
During nearly two centuries of continuous operation, this chemical company has become a global leader among industrial growth companies as well as a leader in science and technology in a range of disciplines including high performance materials, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agricultural products. With established major markets in North America and Europe, the company is making its presence known in Asia Pacific and South America. Their business approach is to continually invest in modern and leading-edge manufacturing processes.
More than ten years ago, the company began developing a factory Manufacturing Execution System (MES). This software monitors inventory, color control, and the overall manufacturing process.
The objective of this project was to migrate a component of the OpenVMS-based process control system to an Intel based platform running Windows NT. The application code was VAX FORTRAN and some C language code. Using Sector7's tools, the FORTRAN and C code was converted to a form acceptable to the Windows-based compilers. One aspect of the project was to provide the ability for the applications to share files between the existing OpenVMS-based systems and the new Windows-based ones. Sector7 developed enhancements to the client company's RMS file system emulation which has permitted relatively seamless file access across the network.
By using Sector7's tools, the client company saved many man-hours of effort, and greatly reduced the anticipated project costs and risks.
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