Objective
Increasing world-wide competition, a larger variety of increasingly complex products and shortening of lifecycles, affect the current development of textile CAD/CAM systems.
Moreover the expansion of NedGraphics to new market areas and maturing of standard platforms, require the software engineers to focus on new products. For these reasons NedGraphics can no longer afford to pursue the present working practices (including software process). Central focus of this PIE will be to reduce the time-to-market (TTM) with approximately 30%. Taking into account the small software engineering workforce of NedGraphics, this PIE is especially relevant for SME's producing custom software systems.
THE EXPERIMENT
The baseline project comprises the development of new versions of NedGraphics' main CAD product for the woven textile market. NedGraphics strategy is to deliver regular updates of this product about every 4 to 6 months. Within 18 months it is therefore possible to experiment two of these software development cycles. Prior to these cycles the measuring system will be set up.
The two software development cycles will both contain following phases: definition of new functionality, design of user interface and technical architecture, implementation, testing and deliverance with documentation. The software developing unit consists of 12 engineers (4 are involved in the project).
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
Following key-results are to be expected:
faster and more flexible response to changing demands (new and adapted products);
minimising of time requested for maintenance and related services.
An Object Oriented Approach supports the time-to-market reduction in following ways:
starting with determining the objects in the problem domain of the end-user, it allows the end user to review the results and deliver input very early in the development process;
it enables the reuse of separate modules which speeds up development and causes less time to test and debug the application;
it supports the completion of a highly complex solid design, thus reducing the risk of creating an incomplete design, and preventing most product changes later on.
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
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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3542AD Utrecht
Netherlands