Moebius is, at the moment, the most advanced dispenser software available on the market.
It comes with every machine made by Fast, a company whose core-business is
high technology painting equipment.
It is the result of years of coding, debugging, testing, collecting reports and wish
lists from customers, translating and maintaining.
I understand that Moebius deserves a better page than this, but this is what I could
do in my spare time...
Moebius is an application which runs on a Win32-based PC connected to
a FAST paint dispenser. The program's main purpose is to pilot the dispenser
in order to obtain the desired color mixture. Formulas can be provided to
Moebius from a number of different sources: from a data file (whose format is fully
configurable), from a spectrophotometer (via a serial connection, a file or a network
connection), from an external program.
Moebius provides the user with an unprecedented power and freedom in designing its
own formulas,
My role in the making of Moebius is the core development, basically I wrote all the C++
code (more than 1.2 MB, only counting the cpp and h files). A quite large number of other
persons took care of all the other phases of the deployment. We have translators
(the program is shipped in a number of different languages, including English US, English UK,
German, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Japanese), user documentation writers,
testers and installators. By the way, the screen shots here reported come from the
Italian version, the one that I have on my development machine.
The technical staff in Fast is able to manipulate all the thousands of different configuration
options present in Moebius in order to match the user needs, the hardware configuration
of the connected devices (label printers, digital balances, spectrophotometres, ...),
the physical properties of the installation (every place on earth has got its own temperature
range, humidity and any other feature that affects the operation of a paint dispenser).
