Technical Automation consists of the development of custom software solutions for software intensive systems - operations support systems, simulation and training systems, systems for scientific computing solutions and embedded software for either industrial or consumer products.
By creating this high-end software together with our clients, and by using the most innovative competencies, we strive at increasing the competitive advantage of the software we deliver within our clients’ specific markets.
At Atos Origin, our highly motivated and expert Technical Automation teams leverage 20 years of experience to provide our clients with:
Integrity and reliability of electronic products
Integrity and reliability of electronic products, which we foster through the delivery of fully reliable, uncrashable and unhackable real time operating systems (RTOS), complete and rigorous testing services, leading edge error checking, debugging and verification solutions, customised training of our clients’ own developers.
Total security
Total security is required today in a world where soon every electronic product will be connected to the Internet. Not only do we implement all security solutions that prevent attacks by external hackers and viruses, we also apply the strictest security policies to eliminate potential inside threats by agents in the development teams of high security systems.
Total quality
Increased performance
At Atos Origin, we believe the predictability of software engineering can be improved by a minimum 20% through the implementation of our process improvement services.
Lower development and production costs
Through the “industrialisation” and standardisation of the best practices and processes which we have continuously improved over years of experience in diverse and demanding sectors, through smaller onsite development teams and intelligent sourcing solutions.
Faster time-to-market
Increased programming productivity with standard production processes, pre-tested solutions and accelerated debugging.
We continue to invest in a worldwide community of Technical Automation experts which we motivate to be alert at all times and with solid initiative and entrepreneurial drive. Based on our clients' needs, we use this worldwide community to assemble fit-for-purpose competence teams, i.e. virtual collaboration groups of colleagues with relevant experience and dedicated skills and interests in a specific technology topic or domain.
We have developed a proven track record in a variety of Technical Automation competences such as:
- SVTS: Simulation, Visualisation and Training Systems. Focus on supporting developments for operational systems using simulators and enhancing operators using adequate virtual and multimedia-based environments
- RTSE: Real-Time Systems Engineering. Focus on support for operational systems with time-critical behavior, concurrent processing and multi-processor platforms
- DCS: Distributed Control Systems. Focus on support for command and control of networked systems consisting of (semi-)autonomous units or components
- Digital Video
- Telecom: Producing and maintaining high availability systems (wired and/or mobile telecom)
- Telecom: Focus on call management and PABX support for voice/data network services
- Performance Improvement
- Connectivity
- GUI/MMI: Graphical User Interfaces/Man Machine Interaction. Focus on tooling and design of user interfaces for task-oriented control of (embedded) software in consumer products
- High availability
- Test engineering
Our knowledge area includes the following basics: Real-Time Operating Systems, UNIX, Irix, VxWorks, TCP/IP, API, WNT, COM, DCOM, C and C++, Delphi, Testing, Rational, VisualBasic, VisualC++, Java, Java3D, OpenGL, HTML, UML, Yourdon, Ward & Mellor, CORBA, .NET.
We deliver secondment, consultancy and in-house projects; all organisations are confronted with the need to renew the infrastructure they need to perform their primary business processes. This is especially true of organisations in the business of running mission-critical operations, such as in the aerospace, defence, emergency services, traffic and transport domains. Such organisations are driven by the continual emergence of new technologies. The need to keep in touch with new technology, to identify the infrastructure changes this brings in its wake, and to manage those change processes distract you from your day-to-day operations. By realising our clients’ projects to mutually agreed specifications of functionality, timescale and budget, we lighten their load of non-operational activities.
Atos Origin leverages an impressive amount of experience accumulated over years of systems integration. This history has provided us with complete and up-to-date mastery of standard development tools, processes and methods (e.g. ITIL). Atos Origin has also developed intensive capacity at accompanying clients with business and functional expertise, operational flexibility and technological expertise. Our Technical Automation Services are brought to our clients via a worldwide network of CMM (3 and superior) and ISO9001 certified Service Centres representing over 6,000 resources that can be assembled in the most culturally aligned and cost effective sourcing solution.
As a company that serves customers in many different disciplines, we are adept at working with a wide variety of software development standards, as well as management standards, especially as far as in-house projects are concerned. We have experience with a large variety of standards such as PSS05, an obligatory standard for all software delivered to the European Space Agency, MIL-STD-498, the U.S. Military standard for software development, and documentation or DO-178B for airborne systems and equipment.
Alternatively, when our clients have their own set of design, programming, project management and quality assurance standards, we readily apply them and bring improvement solutions as and when deemed fit.