Manufacturing/Electronics
Nature of Project
MRP and General Business Systems
DEC PDP-11 RSTS/E to Sun SPARC Solaris
BASIC+, BASIC+2
This electronics manufacturing company has set the design and engineering standards in custom-crafted enclosures for telecommunications, data, and networking applications for more than half a decade.
The client company in this project used aging DEC PDP-11 systems to run its in-house manufacturing system software. Having been in production since 1988 and supporting more than 100 users, this system handles most of the integrated business activities. The client faced many problems with this aging equipment and software; the system could no longer handle the increasing number of users and added business requirements, and the cost of keeping the PDP-11 systems up and running was increasing. The search for an alternative manufacturing system in time for Y2K, along with hardware that required constant attention, represented a serious risk.
Upon reading an article in a DEC publication about PDP-11 migration, the client contacted Sector7. Knowing that there was a serious problem with no foreseeable resolution, they looked to Sector7 to migrate their software onto a new platform, the Sun Solaris system.
After only one week, Sector7 had set up a new system plan on UNIX, transferred all enterprise data files, debugged and tested some of the components of the in-house software, and devised a phasing plan for implementing full production of the new system. All of the active data and archives were converted to a format which would permit ODBC (Open Data Base Connectivity) access, which allowed management access to data never before envisaged. After completion of the migration, the new system overcame the Y2K and hardware issues, increased performance by a factor of 65, and allowed for an increased number of users to access the system at any one time. Office and factory tasks became dramatically more efficient, saving the client time and money. This client claims that the association with Sector7 is one of the best technological investments it has made in a long time.
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