The following is a listing of the some typical Microway clients and the kind of services supplied to them.

Le Groupe Videoway (1984-1987) PA work for Telematic Receiver developed by Videoway  

Microway Systems was awarded its first consulting contract by ‘Le Groupe Videoway’, a division of ‘Le Groupe Videotron’ of Montreal . This consulting contract was for PA work for the Telematic Receiver developed by Videoway. The consulting contract lasted about one year and involved the two Microway founders, C. Dominique and B. Wong. It was to provide services pertaining to, but not limited to, the following subjects or fields of work:

In August 1993, Microway Systems obtained a new contract from Videoway to complete state-of-the-art research to develop an RS-485 serial protocol for the Videoway Telematic Receiver

SACO Controls Inc. (1992-1995) ISO 9000 certification

SACO Controls Inc., is an established client of Microway Systems. In the last decade Microway has performed substantial work for SACO Controls.

Consulting Services to SACO

In several instances, Microway provided consulting services to SACO .

In 1995 Microway advised Saco Control Inc. in its petition to be ISO 9000 certified.

In 1992 and 1993 B. Wong of Microway provided services to write test specifications, product specifications and marketing brochures for SACO . 

Development Projects for SACO    

Between 1987 and 1992 Microway undertook to develop several real-time custom products for SACO . The most complex product was the interfaces for intelligent keyboards to be used by Ontario Hydro at its central control station.  Forty such intelligent keyboards, conceived by Microway, were produced by SACO Control Inc.  The keyboards made it much easier to manage the electrical network of the entire Province of Ontario . The quality of these products was excellent and did not required any maintenance/debugging from Microway.  

Canadian Space Agency (1996-1999)

Microway Systems has been engaged in several other contracts with CSA. At first, Claude Dominique was IV&V and S&PA contractor at CSA. Then, between January and May 1998, Microway Systems was sub-contractor to Computer and Concept Associates (C&CA) in the continuation of the SwPA contract with CSA.

The first direct contract between CSA and Microway Systems was awarded in July 1998 to support the SPDM Task Verification Facility  (STVF) Development Team at CSA Space Technologies.

A second contract was awarded to Microway for the S&PA Service support from November 1, 1998 to March 31, 2001 , Reference: RFP No. 9F006-8-0221/000/A. The budget allocated to this contract is in the process of being increased in order to include STVF related S&PA activities and documentation.

A third contract was awarded to Microway Systems for Independent Software Verification and Validation (IV&V). Reference RFP No. 9F006-8-0229/000/A.

A fourth contract was awarded to Microway Systems for Technical Writing Support Services for STVF, Reference RFP No. 9F028-8-2899/A

STVF

In 1998, consultation was provided for the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM), Task Verification Facility (STVF) Project for the Space Technologies Group of CSA. The STVF Project consists of developing a robot entirely controlled by computers.  The project's goal is to verify on-the-ground the tasks and procedures to be used by astronauts on the SPDM, part of the Mobile Service System to be delivered by Canada for the International Space Station. other participants in this project are Spar, CAE, ISE and NASA. (see below for other consulting contracts at CSA as an S&PA and Independent V&V agent).

One of the achievements of Microway Systems in this project was to help the group prepare the PDR on September 2 and 3, 1998. He was part of the team which enabled the PDR to passed at the CSSP control board.

He also prepared the planning of the Post PDR and Pre CDR activities using MS Project.

He now represents the S&PA group on this project, and as such, he made a proposal for S&PA work, budget and schedule requirements for the next 1.5 years of the project.

Software Safety, Product Assurance (S&PA) and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of MSS

Microway Systems was a sub-contractor to Computer and Concept Associates during the first six months of 1998. C. Dominique worked 1.5 years prior to that in the same position at CSA as an employee of C&CA.

The Canadian contribution to the International Space Station Alpha will be launched at the end of 1998. The various Robotics Real-Time Software Packages are being developed by Spar Space Systems as the Prime Contractor with inputs from Sub-Contractors, e.g. CAE, MacDonnald Dettwiler, and Prior Data Science.

C. Dominique planned all S&PA Software PA and IV&V activities on MS Project for the MSS Project. He was the lead negotiator on software standards and procedures with Spar maintaining the balance between cost and schedule versus safety, upgradability, maintainability, and reliability of real-time critical software. In this context, C. Dominique wrote a proposal and followed-up on how to implement Schlaer Mellor methodology at Spar.

Other activities included, but were not limited to:

IBM Formation Center (1998) taught the IBM course Practicing Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

In June 1998, Microway systems was offered a contract to teach the IBM course Practicing Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. The course was given to a group of 18 IBM and ISM employees in June 1998. In their class evaluation, most students were very satisfied with the instructor’s subject knowledge. IBM Education and Training asked C. Dominique to provide a cost proposal to upgrade/revamp the course material.

Bombardier Transport   March 2001 - August 2002

Review and modification of documents

This contract is for review of Door Monitoring Control Unit (DMCU) technical documentation for the Side Doors of the Trains for the New York City Transit. This encompasses Software Development plan, Configuration Management Plan, Software Quality Assurance Plan, Software V&V Plan, System Functional Description, Software Requirement Specification and Software Design Document.

Transition to CMM Level II – Process Improvement

This contract consisted in helping Bombardier Transport to transition to Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level II for the Long Island Railways project. Scope of the contract was all Key process areas of CMM Level II with more emphasis on Configuration Management. Developed transition plans to Level II, analyzed compliance to CMM requirements and wrote Configuration Management Process.

Renewed contract to review planning, analysis, design and test documents for the automatic door control system for the train cars.  

CMC Electronics (1999-2001) Consulting contract: Software Quality Engineering, Software Training, and Software Delegation of TCCA (See avionics Experience)