March 10, 2010

DCS

Drive and Control Systems
Drives and Control Services publishes software licenses by the largest mines in the US. Their software tracks the amount of raw material mined on an hourly basis by connecting devices to physical mining equipment and collecting data in real-time from some of the most remote locations in the country . DCS came to Tekyz to solve two problems. The first was that DCS needed to ensure that they accounted for all data collected from each devices even though connectivity to these devices was intermittent , suffering from poor transmission. Tekyz worked in combination with DCS to develop a distributed database solution that could ensure that data was synchronized efficiently with perfect accountability. The second problem were related to their reporting and database design. There reports were taking hours to compile and run because of a legacy database design. After about 2 months of redesign, and refactoring their existing reports, DCS reporting time was reduced dramatically. You can ready their testimonial on