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IPO.Plan

Qt in Use

IPO.Plan Develops Award-Winning 4D Planning & Visualization Tool

Maximizing production efficiency starts by maximizing the efficiency of every task during a production process. Production efficiency experts IPO.Plan provide consultancy services to a wide range of companies including Daimler, BMW, VW, Dürr, Eisenmann, Getrag and Siemens to help them optimize the design of industrial production processes, whether in new factories or existing production lines.

IPO Plan encountered a number of situations where “off-the-shelf” tools were not sufficient and the company needed to develop a product that integrated virtual reality, simulation and CAD functionality so that process information could be be visualized and more easily understood. The company used Qt to develop IPO.Log, a 4D planning and visualization tool that was named the “best product of LogiMAT 2013”. IPO.Log enables the visualization of material placement along the production line, the optimization of worker tasks and the simulation of worker paths.

“In my opinion, Qt is the de facto standard for GUI development, and Qt Quick is without a doubt a key pillar for this – it is fast and simple to implement, runs on nearly all important platforms and establishes a lot of new perspectives concerning model / view implementation”

Effmert Dennis, Software Development Lead
IPO.Plan

IPO.Log mit IPO.Eye Regal

As IPO.Plan’s core business is efficiency, its software development lead Effmert Dennis knew that when tasked with developing IPO.Log he had to identify the most efficient software development platform he could. While IPO.Plan had been using Qt for 18 years and was the company’s first choice, he was tasked with investigating a host of application frameworks including Coin3D, CAL3D, LeapMotion-DevKit Collada, PhysX, MessagePack and Quarter. Dennis soon realized that Qt was the only logical choice because it provides so many possibilities for so many different platforms.

“For many technical reasons, Qt improves our development process, in addition to that, the company employs the SCRUM project management framework to further improve our development efficiency”

Effmert Dennis, Software Development Lead
IPO.Plan

Using Qt

The application was written entirely in C++ with data model and views all implemented using Qt elements. Qt’s wide-ranged API and documentation were crucial to the decision, as were the GUI framework and the cross-platform development support. While the primary target platform was Windows, the option to support other systems such as Linux, MacOS and mobile platforms was a great comfort.

According to Dennis, Qt allowed the development team to design data models and GUI solutions that would have been difficult or impossible using other development solutions.

Dennis believes that Qt saved hours of development time due to its stability and also the possibility of writing unit-tests with the QTest framework. “For many technical reasons, Qt improves our development process, in addition to that, the company employs the SCRUM project management framework to further improve our development efficiency,” he says.

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