Timension™: A Universal Rescheduling Engine to Build more Productive, Flexible and Reliable Automated Systems
Reto Buhlmann, Jorge Carmona · Laboratory Automation News · 1997
software developers and system integrators will be able to build more productive, flexible and reliable automated systems. Highlights of the TechnologyTimension will be an open, universal and standard object-oriented package (Figure 1) which can be easily integrated by a software engineer with mastery of an object-oriented programming language such as C++ or Ada 95.It is designed to be embedded in automated systems dedicated to specific markets, applications and users.Timension can be used to optimize the performance of automated systems subjected to unpredictable events such as alarms, breakdowns, exceptions, process or environment changes, process interruptions and delays, conditional processing, the unanticipated arrival of new items to handle, and a variety of other constraints.Not only will an automated system run better with this technology, but it will also perform at a level to meet, if not surpass, the user's expectations.Timension can be used in automated systems designed for R&D, quality control, production, supply-chain management, and a variety of other applications. World scheduling for the-' fiJ !m 'm t).