The Maestro project is a digital twin for selected operations of the fictional Swift Construction Company (the SCC), a representative small-to-medium-sized engineering and manufacturing company.
The SCC is the back story for exploring engineering product development and general business workflows, using a non-proprietary data set based on:
- Parts – part numbers, revisions, sources, related documents, bills-of-materials, and change management.
- Projects – purpose, requirements, plan, people, tasks, scheduling, forecast and consumed labor and costs.
- Issues – reports, relationships, investigations, and corrective actions.
- Stock – on-hand quantities of parts, including serial numbers, supply chain, purchasing, and traceability.
- Files – engineering and ad hoc documents, with revisions, authors, editors, approvers, and search tags.
- Users – authentication, groups and access control.
Maestro has been used in the evaluation of Tryton, ERPNext, Odoo and webERP.
The Swift Construction Company
The Swift Construction Company is based on the company of the same name in the Tom Swift series of youth science fiction and adventure books published in the early 1900’s. The Swift Construction Company was a small-to-medium enterprise (SME), engaged in high-tech design engineering, manufacturing, sales and services.
Books published before 1923 are in the public domain, making the employees, projects, customers and suppliers freely available for the Maestro project.
SCC Quality Management System (QMS)
The Swift Construction Company maintains a formal quality management system or QMS, modelled on ISO 9001:2008. The SCC Quality System Manual (QSM) is managed online in the SCC Wiki.
Swift Construction Company QSM pages include:
Employees
The Swift Construction Company has individuals in typical representative roles needed to explore common business workflows.
Aircraft Wireless
The primary product of the Swift Construction Company used in Maestro is the Aircraft Wireless.
Aircraft Wireless Product Lifecycle
Milestone | Name | Description |
1 | Prototype | Product protype available for preliminary verification and validation. |
2 | Design Release | Product design complete. Product is available for limited manufacturing until new product introduction process is complete. |
3 | Product Release | New product introduction process complete. Product is available for general sale. |
4 | Manufacturing Improvement | Cost and quality continuous improvements. |
5 | Service Kit | Service support kit available for general sale. |