Consulting and Coaching

At the beginning of a major software development project, it is necessary to formulate a certain number of important basic questions. The quality of the answers to these questions will more than likely impact the ultimate success of the overall project. 4D Engineering has in recent years earned a very good reputation in the area of current real-time systems and the development of control software. Our consulting personnel are all developers with extensive experience in these areas.

4DE consulting and coaching (selection):

More often than not, decisions that can impact the outcome of an entire project arise in the early phases of software projects having to do with controls or real-time applications.
What real-time system should be used? And what language? How can the details in the specifications be handled with the means provided by the various systems? How can requirements be efficiently used to specify an architecture? What process model is the right one to use? And what development process? These are all typical questions.

In addition to expertise in the area of project implementation, it takes in-depth familiarity with the various products and process variants to be able to find the answers to such questions. On the other hand, it also takes considerable experience in order to be able to choose the right options for a given project.
Our customers are the ones who possess the required knowledge when it comes to project requirements. On the other hand, we at 4D Engineering can provide the necessary expertise when it comes to tools, techniques and processes.
We have acted as consultants in many of areas involving real-time applications in which we had previous accumulated hands-on experience in the context of concrete projects. These include the following, to mention a few:

• Six-axis industrial robots
• Airbus A380
• Inspection stations for silicon wafers
• Telescope controls
• Industrial image processing
• Medical equipment
• Digital printing systems

4D Engineering has acquired an excellent reputation in the area of real-time systems and control development, especially in the past few years. Using advanced development methods, we create customerspecific software. The sheer variety of the techniques and products that we are confronted with means that we are constantly adding to our wealth of experience in the area of real-time applications, and this represents potential our customers can tap at all times.
Given this situation, we can offer efficient consulting services and assistance with specific problems in the context of projects involving the development of technical software. At the same time, this completes the range of services we offer, which are concentrated in the development area.

The aspects reviewed below help to explain the goal of our consulting activities. We are completely committed to technologies and methods that are both practical and at the same time future-oriented.
This is one way in which we can make sure that the software we develop is efficient and successful.
Our consultants are all experienced software developers in the real-time area. Given their long years of involvement in the context of many different types of projects, we are in a position to offer our customers consulting and coaching services to meet virtually any needs.
4D Engineering can provide the support you need with real-time operating systems such as VxWorks / Tornado and QNX as well as RTAP, Windows or Linux / RT-Linux. We can also help you with the specification of the system architecture, the use of object-oriented design techniques, the use of C++ for embedded applications and the configuration of the architecture for distributed real-time applications. In addition, we can provide assistance when it comes to questions that arise in connection with the corresponding user interfaces.
You can also count on us to select your infrastructure and provide basic services for real-time systems or the use of procedural models for developing small, medium and large applications.
Last, but far from least, we can provide the necessary support for machine-oriented programming, driver development and the use of different hardware platforms, including VMEbus, IPC, PowerPC, M68k, UNIX workstations and much more.
And we are certainly offering consulting services and individual project coaching for our rapid embedded software development tookit redBlocks.

When it comes to consulting and the development of real-time systems, you can count on 4D Engineering, and our list of references includes the names of well-known companies to prove it. If you like, we would be more than glad to provide you with an overview of our reference projects.

So, why not contact us to find out what we can do for you?