Optimizing your high-tech development and machine performance

The complexity of high-tech systems has increased enormously over the last few decades. OEMs – for example in the semiconductor, analytical and digital printing industries – create machines that not rarely operate on the edge of physical possibilities. Their performance is ever more determined by software.

“Creating a machine with optimal behavior, also in our high-tech world, requires a sound mechanical and electronic design,” says Laurens van de Laar, a software architect at NTS. “If that’s not the case, you can’t usually fix it with software. The laws of physics always apply. However, with the use of software, you can push the boundaries. It’s a technology to maximize results, both from the perspective of machine and process control. You can add speed, accuracy, usability, maintainability, freedom of choice, functionality, uptime and so on. In other words: there’s a difference between complexity and intelligence, and the latter always runs on software. That makes our discipline so crucial for NTS and our customers.”