CDA
SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Ingres ETC (formerly Thinking Instruments, see announcement link below), with over 13 years experience as an Ingres reseller and developer serving the European market, will continue to provide its customers with cutting edge service, support and applications to improve their businesses. Case in point: CDA Datenträger Albrechts GmbH, or CDA.
Faster and Better. When CDA was looking for technology to boost its manufacturing capabilities, it turned to the development team at Ingres ETC. The international demand in the entertainment, gaming and music industries for media replication, such as CDs, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs and DVDs, was growing astronomically. To remain competitive, CDA needed to increase and streamline its production.
Ingres ETC worked with CDA and developed LeanPro, a customized application, built upon Ingres OpenROAD and the Ingres Database. LeanPro automates all aspects of the manufacturing process to ensure greater efficiencies in production and permanently shorter cycle times. It also provides remote management and DBA support for the LeanPro application system. When orders come in for fulfillment, LeanPro manages and tracks each stage of the production process, ensuring maximum efficiencies and utilization of resources.
Today, CDA is one of Europe's top performing replicators of optical media. LeanPro runs 24/7, achieving 99.999% availability, with no down time. Scheduled service updates take less than 8 hours per year. An innovative "emergency concept" keeps LeanPro running, even if the server or network fails.
"With the introduction of LeanPro we achieved production efficiency which we need for flexible, on schedule production of our products. We are able to produce up to 500,000 CD's, DVD's as well as HD-DVD's. We build on the speed and reliability of the Ingres database and LeanPro to fulfill the more and more dynamic requirements of our business." - Konrad Scholz, CDA Datentraeger Albrechts GmbH
For more information about CDA visit: http://www.cda.de