ColorWorkDesk CWD Server: The software that provides colourimetry services

How does CWD Server work

The idea behind ColorWorkDesk CWD Server is actually very simple: provide industry operators, a practical tool that allows them to manage, centralise and share all the information related to quality control, search for similar colours, formulation and correction of colours.

Its operation is equally simple and linear: it has a number of preset connections for listening to clients. The operator from his device, through the client software, sends a processing request to the Server software.

The server processes the input and once the operation is finished it returns the result to the client. The client displays the result and closes the connection.

All the features of a useful and versatile colourimetry tool

URAI software is therefore able to provide colourimetry services for different client applications such as desktop workstations, laptops or portable devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

Specifically, the features of CWD Server are among the following:

• Manage all information in one centralized database
• Has a set number of connections for listening to clients
• Accepts requests from any authorized client, regardless of device and operating system
• Receive and encode requests: information and/or processing such as searches, formulations and corrections
• For each request send an answer: colourimetric references and/or results of formulations and corrections
• Communicate universally via ASCII character strings

Centralize and share information: benefits for URAI customers

All these features bring undeniable benefits to the end user.

The laboratory manager, responsible for the formulation of the colour, not only has the possibility to load their formulas in the centralised database, but this becomes an opportunity, for them and for the other clients connected to it, to share their work and speed up everyone else’s work, making the company’s colourimetric resources available to the community.

The centralized server also allows the information manager to no longer have to move physically, because it can act directly on the shared database, automatically making colourimetric updates.

More generally, the advantages for URAI customers are different:

• Distributed client validation and centralised database management
• The clients require few resources, the distribution is simple and economic, there are no installations and the sending can be telematic
• Possibility to develop customised clients for internal use: production and laboratory
• Ability to develop external clients to the company, systems for stores and systems for the industry on Windows PC, App IOS and Android.
• Ability to develop Web Site with functionality of colourimetry, formulation, search for similar, quality control, …

The winning choices of URAI

The above advantages derive from the intuition of URAI to separate from the colour matching software, libraries the computer library to integrate it into a program that runs directly on the centralised server.

In this way, client interfaces can be used via different devices to access colourimetry services.

The system infrastructure, not surprisingly, has been organized in 3 modules: CWD Server, CWD Client and CWD SmartApp, to better organize the management of colour information.

To always maintain the correct integrity of data during the operations of insertion, modification and deletion, the choice of the database fell back on the now proven Microsoft SQL.

Customer loyalty with ColorWorkDesk: an industry business opportunity

The ColorWorkDesk colourimetry system is being appreciated by many players in the colour industry, from large paint manufacturers to individual operators equipped with only a portable spectrophotometer.

In this regard, a cascade effect is created that sees the protagonists of the large producers of paints.

With the use of URAI’s ColorWorkDesk software, they will in turn become exclusive suppliers to medium and small colour manufacturers interested in adapting their technology infrastructure to CWD systems.

The result can be evaluated, of course, in terms of customer loyalty with obvious economic returns throughout the supply chain.