Solution
The team rebuilt from scratch a tailored application used to control rework stations. To enhance our client’s rework systems equipped with this software, our engineers focused on two main directions: a straightforward, modern-looking, and touch-friendly UI and improved core functionalities.
The software assists and guides the user through the rework process. Due to the intuitive UI for the end user, the rework station is now easier to use. The application also offers an auto function that creates a soldering and desoldering profile by analyzing data points and temperature sensors.
Our team not only transformed the previous desktop-only application but improved its critical core functionalities:
- increase speed and accuracy during the placement procedure;
- simplify and improve the flow of the soldering – desoldering process;
- secure the workspace with a password along with its profiles;
- implement a system that monitors device connection;
- implement a mechanism that supports real-time application localization.
In the future, the software will support additional device connection and communication protocols (such as HTTP).
Collaboration
The collaboration started when our client, a supplier of industrial solutions for SMD assembly repair, was looking for a software development partner to update a two-decade-old application used to coordinate rework stations.
After a thorough assessment and a cost-efficiency analysis of the existing solution, the development team decided to start from scratch and build an entirely new software. For the design solution, they chose .NET’s WPF, as the requirements included a professional-looking UI that could be used by all touch-enabled devices.
Throughout the collaboration, the Agile software development methodology was adopted. This enabled the team to focus on high-priority issues first and to meet the client’s expectations at every step.
The team is now working on an entire software suite for our client. This also includes software for precise control of dispensing devices as well as editing and processing software.
