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"Mercury performed an outstanding job! We were able to bring to market our new platform based on the new architecture within an astounding mere six weeks time, within scope and under budget. We of course immediately hired them to continue on-going development of a new project to extend our product’s capability. Again, in time, within scope, and within budget! I highly recommend Mercury Development for Linux based application development!" –Tim Duncan, Engineering Manager, Wagner Electronics About Wagner Electronics Wagner Electronics was founded by Delmer Wagner, a Pacific Northwest wood products electrician in the early 1960's. It was in that capacity that he saw the problems that moisture caused in wood processing. Wagner knew that he could create a better system, one which would be easy to use, easy to calibrate and easy to interpret. This led to his design of the first solid-state, non-contact, in-line moisture detector. As the company’s product line grew, customers began asking for a hand-held meter which would offer the same accuracy and reliability of the larger in-plant systems. So Wagner developed the original, pin-free moisture meter. Today, Wagner’s expanded line of hand-held moisture meters has become the worldwide standard for accuracy and reliability. Wagner Hand-Held Moisture Meters use an advanced electro-magnetic wave technology. This proven technology allows the user to quickly and accurately measure the moisture content of wood without the time consuming effort of driving pins into the wood. It provides instant readings, scanning many board feet in seconds. The electromagnetic radio waves are sent into the wood to detect moisture without leaving any holes. Business Need Wagner Electronics was recently in a bind because one of their products was based on a PC-104 Single Board Computer which had gone obsolete. The boards had disappeared from the market which dictated that they replace it with a new, more modern board. A substitute was found, however the new hardware required a newer version of Linux for which Wagner’s software suite was not compatible. Wagner’s software suite consisted of kernel loadable modules implementing Real-Time Application Interfaces (RTAI) and user space applications. Mercury Development was hired to port over the entire code base to the new architecture. The situation was complicated by the fact that the porting was needed to be done in a short timeframe, as the inventory of the legacy boards was decreasing and there was a growing market demand for their moisture measurement systems. The Solution Mercury’s first step was to analyze all existing modules and supporting applications to determine the incompatibilities that prevented the code from running on the newer version of Linux. Mercury then developed, and subsequently executed, an implementation plan for the migration and testing. We performed all these services within six weeks from start of the project. The Benefit A quickly executed migration allowed Wagner to continue shipping their product to customers without delays. In addition to the quick time to market, our improvements to the Linux code lowered the cost of future platform updates. |
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