Lower TCO by Porting MPM UNIX Applications

Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. is the driving force in Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) solutions, helping global manufacturers build the best production strategies to succeed in their increasingly complex environments.

Tecnomatix customers include the world’s top players in the electronics, automotive and aerospace industries — including companies such as BMW, and General Motors in automotive; Airbus, and Lockheed-Martin in aerospace; and Motorola and Siemens, in electronics. Tecnomatix eMPower™ solutions have emerged as the de facto MPM standard, helping companies improve manufacturing processes — cutting costs, increasing quality and accelerating time-to-market.

Tecnomatix looked at porting eM-Workplace to Linux, but did not want to create a solution dedicated to Linux and was not conducive to the common desktop environment. “We wanted eM-Workplace to be available on the engineer’s desktop station, in their normal working environment”, said Marcel Keinan, Director of CAD & Robcad Applications – R&D Group, Tecnomatix. Speaking with other organizations that have used MKS Toolkit products, Tecnomatix learned that MKS delivers superior UNIX to Windows porting solutions.

A feasibility study was conducted and completed in four calendar months. In the next four months, 20 million lines of code from the eM-Workplace application were ported with MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. Tecnomatix was able to achieve the migration in eight calendar months and delivered a full product solution to their clients in a Windows environment.