Development departments in electrical engineering work on hardware and software at the same time. On top of that come test records, standards and component documentation that someone has to maintain.
Redmine keeps projects, source code and documentation in one place. We take over operation, either in our cloud in Germany or on your server.
What your team does with it
- Projects and tasks per assembly. Development, testing and production planning work in the same system, with separate roles and permissions.
- Source code on the issue. The DevOps plugin connects Git repositories. Commits appear on the matching issue and firmware versions stay traceable.
- Components, test equipment and certificates. The DB plugin manages parts lists, test equipment, calibrations and certificates with custom fields.
- Test and work instructions. The Wiki Guide plugin adds an approval workflow and read confirmation to the wiki. For standards and audits it is provable who read which version.
- Effort and project status. The Reporting plugin delivers dashboards and effort reports per project, without exporting to a spreadsheet.
- Document changes. Every change to an assembly becomes an issue with an owner and a date. What changed when sits on the issue and not in an email.
What that means day to day
- Cloud in Germany or your own server. With InHouse operation, SSH access restricted to our IP is enough.
- Redmine and GitLab from one provider. One contact, one server location, connected through the DevOps plugin.
- No user limits. Whether 50 or 500 people work in it, the hosting costs the same.
- We handle the updates. Security patches every four hours, major versions only after a plugin check.
Prices are listed openly on the hosting page, GitLab has its own overview.