Baseline project for documentation of an MES in the large-scale production of damping systems
Project duration: 9 months
Brief description
The customer (international group corporation) is developing several own MES (Manufacturing Execution System) to automate production control. The software system takes over all steps from planning to execution to post-processing of the production steps as well as all steps of personnel planning including the administration of the necessary training measures. In order to be able to further develop, better maintain and test the software, structured requirements are created for the first time at usage and software level in a standardized representation and depth of description and integrated into corresponding use case models. The storage and modeling takes place in the customer's own Enterprise Architect (EA).
Supplement
PTA is responsible for creating a professional documentation of the customer's MES from various sources. The information collected by a developer is checked for consistency of content as far as possible, supplemented and the professional relationships are worked out. This results in a 'reverse engineered' requirements model that describes almost the entire application and shows the professional relationships through cross-references.
Subject description
The resulting documentation is made available to the customer in the customer's own Enterprise Architect (EA) and serves the departments involved as a basis for supplementing or improving the professional requirements of the software system and for user acceptance tests. Furthermore, it serves as a tool for software development to understand professional processes and recognize side effects at an early stage. For testers, for example, regression and system tests can be derived. Overall, the 'know-how' of the application, which was previously only stored in the source code, is subsequently written down in documentation, which is thus available to all stakeholders in a generally understandable and readable form without programming knowledge.