January 05 newsletter  


 

Dataworks monthly newsletter - 13th edition
Welcome to the January issue of our newsletter. Hope you all had a nice Christmas. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers a happy new year and thank you all for your custom.

This month, a selection of innovative projects developed recently at Dataworks. In March we will hit the road again by popular demand and bring our 'Shop Floor & IT - Closing the loop' technical talk in association with the ISA in Cork this time.

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That's it, it's official, Dataworks is 10 years old. Dataworks was formed in January 1995 by Brian Robinson and Liam Curham. Both ex-Kromberg & Schubert employees, Brian and Liam initially set-up Dataworks to provide Kromberg & Schubert and other local clients in the South East region with complete software development services. Since then, Dataworks has gained a solid reputation for its professionalism and problem-solving abilities, establishing itself as the leading custom software development company in the South of Ireland.

Dataworks been growing steadily for the last decade to respond to the increasing demand and enlarging its client-base now including many worldwide multinationals in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe & the USA.

2005 will see a series of events to celebrate our 10 years of business. Watch this space for more very shortly.

 
Shop Floor & IT - Closing the loop
Presented by Dataworks in association with the ISA.
March 22nd at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork
  
Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) Annual Exhibition 05

Please feel free to drop-in for a chat at the Dataworks stand

Tuesday 26 April 2005
Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork
  
 

NVD is a major player in the Irish motor industry. Since its establishment in 1980, this wholly owned Irish company has grown from small beginnings to become the strategic partner to distributors and dealers. Its state of the art facilities make NVD the first choice in handling both new and nearly new vehicles. The in-house IT team at NVD has recently called on Dataworks' expertise to develop an innovative mobile tracking application. The system, developed in C# using the .net compact framework utilises mobile devices with integrated 2D bar-code scanner, digital signing and camera along with GPRS technology to locate vehicles and deliveries to car dealers countywide.




The International Academy of Travel (IAOT) was established in 1992 and is now one of the world's longest running and leading travel industry training and recruitment Specialist. Amongst its impressive range of distance learning and on-site courses, the IAOT is now offering KLM Codeco Check-in courses on CD-ROM. Security is an important element to both KLM & IAOT and it was decided from an early stage to develop a system to prevent students passing on their CDs to others. The CD also had to expire within a certain timespace. Dataworks has developed an on-line registration system along with a desktop application which provides KLM with full tracking features and gives IAOT the necessary tools to effectively manage the delivery of the course over time and prevent copying of the CD.

Dataworks will be hitting the road again in March and heads to Cork this time where we will be presenting a technical talk in association with the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society. The event will take place at 8 pm on the 22nd of March at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork
. Shop Floor & IT - Closing the loop will be the theme of this debate/ presentation and will consist of a one our talk/ case study followed by a question and answer session and tea/ coffee.

In the past 10 years, the different roles between IT and engineering were very clear. While technology has moved on a great deal over recent years to bridge that gap between automation and IT; the cultural differences between IT, controls and engineering are preventing in a lot of cases the adoption of a fruitful collaborative approach to systems integration.

Professionals from Engineering, Controls, Quality and IT will be invited to share their experiences on the subject. The event will provide with a unique networking opportunity between professionals of the automation industry in IT, Engineering and process control. The event is free of charge. Please feel free to invite your colleagues along.


 

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