Software Complexity

Are you building a platform that enables data sharing across several different enterprise solutions in the cloud?

Is this a standalone use case with no need for interoperability?

Do you have a team of software engineers?

Are you building a device that will be integrated by control or process engineers or technicians, rather than software engineers?

Is software a simple challenge?

Does your system require perception-based decision-making?

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End Use

Are you implementing a new architecture?

Do you have many small devices (wired or not)?

Are you connecting people and corporate data along with deployed system data for analysis?

Are you creating robotics components for use outside of your own system, or creating robotics components for others?

Will your system be used only in a controlled environment (research/experimental)?

Are you building equipment for a “workcell”?

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Are you sending data between devices or field systems?

Are you sending all data to one place (eg. a cloud service or a database), rather than between devices?

Do you need to track, permit and/or archive all of your enterprise level data?

Do you think of your application as data collection?

Do you have a relatively small system, with no real concern for scalability?

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Are there severe consequences if your system goes down for a short time?

Will your product be used in different applications in different systems, as opposed to one (type of) system where you control the architecture?

Are milliseconds important in your communications?

Do you struggle with high volume data throughput requirements?

Does your application require only 'soft' real-time performance?

Is your system safe without software support or testing?

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Are you building an articulated robot?

Are you in discrete manufacturing?

Are you building an autonomous vehicle?

Are you building an enterprise corporate data sharing solution?

Are you associated with the German Plattform Industrie 4.0 program?

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