During recent years, control system projects have increased in complexity to meet the needs of the ever demanding changes required of any state of the art process.

The individual software components are the strategic assets of any control system.

Today, software projects are complex, multi-faceted tasks that must be managed properly and to recognised standards. Lack of clearly defined procedures and software control can result in chaos.

Too often insufficient software control results in unrecoverable data loss that can push back the project completion date. Out of date or incorrect software loaded onto system which can result in interrupting or stopping production, and a lack of a clear audit trail will make quality audits a nightmare.

Insufficient software control combined with the lack of accurate reporting, results in additional configuration costs.

A successful software project demands good software configuration management (SCM), demonstrating software control and tractability throughout .

The company can provide a comprehensive Software Configuration Management package, by combining proven software configuration management procedures with any high quality SCM tool.

By capitalising on the experience of software project management, DCS software Engineering Ltd can :

- Consult on the initial requirements

- Write the SCM procedures

- Integrate the SCM tool into the system

- Train staff on its use