SeqOp, Inc.
Programming the right thing.
Every machine starts with a clear idea of what it should do. By the time that idea becomes control code, much of it is lost, and nobody can see what went missing.
Forthcoming · Programming the Right Thing, Vol. 1
The problem
Design intent and machine code don't speak the same language.
Engineers know what a machine is supposed to do. Programmers write the code that makes it move. The two rarely line up perfectly, and today there is no good way to see the gaps.
Intent doesn't reach the machine
What a machine should do lives in drawings, specs and people's heads. Turning that into control code is manual, and meaning gets lost in translation.
Code doesn't convey intent
Once a machine is running, its code is the only complete record of what it does. Reading the original intent back out of that code is slow, expert work.
No common visualization
There's no shared picture that engineers, programmers, operators and field technicians can all look at and agree on, so gaps stay hidden until something goes wrong.
What we're building
Know what your machine is supposed to do, and whether its code does it.
SeqOp is building a clearer way to carry design intent into automation, and to bring it back out again. We're working with a small group of invited partners now, with more to share soon.
Esse Quam Videri
To be, rather than to seem.
A machine that seems right on the plant floor isn't the same as one that is right. That difference is the work we do.
Talk with us.
Questions, partnerships or an introduction: we'd like to hear from you.