Project Jumpstart & Custom Software Development
PinnacleART offers construction, maintenance, and thorough reliability programs for businesses in the oil and gas, mining, and pharmaceutical sectors. They previously relied on a complicated manual process to model the availability of processing facilities and sought to automate this for their engineers assessing factory availability. To explore the feasibility of an automated solution, the client requested a Proof of Concept (POC) to demonstrate the creation and automatic calculation of an Availability Model. Additionally, PinnacleART did not utilize a build-once-and-release approach; instead, they had separate builds for each version and environment of their software products, leading to discrepancies between the testing and production versions. Clear Measure suggested incorporating Visio in the POC application, where they created functionalities to manage PinnacleART's complex algorithms associated with availability modeling and generated diagrams of the facilities. To address PinnacleART's software build challenges, Clear Measure launched a new software development project using Azure DevOps, implementing a revised branching strategy and pull requests. As a result, PinnacleART can now use Visio to model system availability and automatically calculate uptime at the click of a button, a task that previously required extensive time and expertise to manually break down systems into subsystems. In terms of DevOps, the client can now manage development, building, and releasing entirely within the Azure cloud ecosystem.