This applies especially the higher your level of automation and the change amount in your production is. An increased factror is multi-shift schedule, 24 hours production on 7 days and a high amount of maintenance staff who execute software changes together with external partners.

Your today’s world:

You store software versions on CD or already manually on a central server or network drive. The versioning runs by name assignment but nevertheless not every employee stand to "the rules".
It leads to “confusions” or there is „something missed“ or possibly „overwritten“.
The result from this are over and over questions as: WHO changed WHAT, WHEN and why? Where is the current version?
-> versiondog automates the data filing, versioning and documentation - as well as your facilities are automated.
It offers specific support for the most important data types as SIMATIC S5, SIMATIC S7, SIMATIC PCS 7, WinCC, WinCC flexible, InTouch, CoDeSys, TwinCAT, Phoenix PC WORX, RSLogix, Schneider Modsoft, Schneider Concept, Schneider Unity, SINUMERIK 840D, Bosch IndraWorks, robot programs from ABB and Kuka, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, a.o.

The number of your machines and devices is increasing and the software becomes growing complex. Unfortunately, more maintenance personnel is not employed. The time for necessary savings and backups becomes ever more limited – you backup less and less – the risk becomes higher and higher. You do not have any control whether all software versions in production agree with server configuration. Unauthorized changes in e.g. control system are not recognized.
-> versiondog automatically saves on network. He examines differences between facilities and server status as well as he informs before an error appears.

You find out that your electricians have to accomplish more and more changes in the controls and devices - but you do not know exactly WHERE and WHY. The facility seems not to be optimized - there is something get out of control. The question just is: WHERE is the mentioned "bottle neck"?
-> versiondog contains a Life-Cycle Overview, which helps you to find "bottle necks". If one analyses after half a year all provided versions it becomes clear fastly at which program places changes happen over and over again without solving the real problem.

You are engineer at the companies headquarter and you are responsible for company-wide standard modules. You manage your standards in manually created tools as Access data banksor similar ones. In practice you find out that without time-consuming control the standards are not kept and you lose the overview.
-> versiondog supports the server synchronization. This enables you to distribute automatically from the headquarter the installed standards in your plants worldwide.