Manufacturing Industry

CNC Motion Programs and Applications

Core Technologies Used: Visual Studio and Visual C++

Services Provided: Systems Analysis, Data Modeling, Project Management, Application Design and Development

BBM personnel developed applications and interfaces for hydraulic CNC controllers on precision transfer machines. Using Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Visual C++, these applications interfaced with proprietary objects to define and display CNC motion programs, tooling information and interaction with PLC applications.

Geometric Modeling

Services Provided: Data Modeling, Project Management, Application Development, and Application Design

BBM personneldeveloped geometric modeling features for a Sheet Metal Design System using Object-Oriented ‘C’ programming. This application utilized the Parasolid Kernel Interface as the geometric engine to generate design and manufacturing features. These were based on HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and DEC OSF environments.

Digital Film Production

Core Technologies Used: SAP, COM+, XML, Visual Basic, SQL Server 2000

Services Provided: Systems Analysis, Application Design and Application Development, Customer Training and Support

BBM Personnel worked with several other consulting firms on a large-scale automation project for a manufacturing and retail company that produces photographic products and sells them to new mothers.  The project duplicated the fully manually processes for the company by implementing an SAP enterprise database and several Visual Basic applications with auxiliary SQL Server databases.  In order to allow the company to incrementally digitize the photographic processes, several Visual Basic applications were needed to provide for a mix of digital and traditional film processing.  BBM Personnel developed several applications that interfaced with the SAP database using BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) calls and RFC’s (Remote Function Call).  BBM personnel worked with non-computer savvy users to derive his requirements for these applications and implement applications that would minimize the training necessary for the achievement of full production capability.  In addition to performing the system analysis, BBM personnel designed and implemented the auxiliary databases using SQL Server 2000. In all, over twelve applications and COM+ components were written in Visual Basic.