Objective
MASMEC's software is an integral part of the machinery produced by the company; it is the discriminating element which determines the user's satisfaction as regards operating flexibility and reliability under heavy operating conditions.
The target objectives of this project will support the company's policy in trying to enter new market segments and reinforce its presence through its customers, and specifically:
To increase of the company turnover, within 6 months after the fulfilment of the PIE it is expected a growth by 15% of company turnover.
To increase the production efficiency and profitability of each new supplied product.
Reduction of the cost for producing embedded software based on the company's standard components and templates.
Reduction of the time to market of the overall machine, by diminishing the effort for software standardisation and customisation for new machines;
Reduction of the unitary costs of production for a machine;
THE EXPERIMENT
The PIE will be conducted on an already planned baseline project of strategic relevance for the company: the design and software implementation for stands performing test on assembled parts.
The goals of the experiment are:
1. To better and formally structure the software system specification process, by easing the modelling of the real-time behaviour of the testing machines and its translation into software systems specifications.
2. To improve the degree of reusability of the company's standard software components, by revising and re-engineering them in terms of granularity, flexibility of use and access methods.
3. To improve user's interaction modalities through the introduction and formalization of graphical layout standards
4. To improve the management of quality throughout the overall software process, by introducing, also, a first set of essential process and product quality metrics.
MASMEC actually employs 33 people, 10 of them are involved in software development.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
MASMEC expects to enrich its know how on the system requirement specification, reducing the time necessary to produce its software, easing the software engineering process, and reducing the people effort.
Another important goal is to improve the management of quality through all the software process, introducing a first set of metrics regarding the product and the quality, and to assess a system of documents especially suitable for software development.
The expected results should also lead to a better acceptance of the system functionality and performance by the clients and to a more extensive reuse of base software components with reduced maintenance costs.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem software
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economics
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ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measuresCoordinator
70026 Modugno Ba
Italy