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Demonstrated: distributed database conveyor emulation

Conveyor Emulation

A company required a complex conveyor emulation which included many interconnected sorters, merges and any number of picking and shipping lines for testing their system. Like the Distributed Database an application specific language drives the entire system. It demonstrates the following:

2.5 hours is all the author needed to support for 95 percent of all system configurations.
Tool no longer needed the support of the author for most projects.
Major concept holes where found and solved with this tool.
Dropped our risk considerably with a very accurate and very inexpensive testing tool.
Solutions to applications containing conflicting requirements where demonstrated and put to operation using weighted (best solve) solutions.

Conflicting Requirements

Conflicting requirements can be easily resolved using requirement weighting instead of absolute requirements where possible. This becomes an extremely effective management tool when dealing with dynamic priorities. The following example demonstrates:

Sort heavy first then progressively lighter
Keep like product together for any given shipment
Support high priority shipments
Handle actual situations not just theoretic ideal
And, as always, As FAST as POSSIBLE.