As an IT partner supporting manufacturing innovations, Nippon Steel provides wide-ranging system solutions. Csemi is middleware for open-type process control systems, developed by Nippon Steel. It is the information technology to structure an optimum MES (manufacturing execution system) for realizing the manufacturing industry of the 21st century.Information-oriented operations utilizing ERP (enterprise resource planning) and SCM (supply chain management) are rapidly developing in the mission-critical system of the manufacturing sector. However, mass data collected and analyzed by the use of these solutions cannot be utilized for enhancing corporate competitiveness, unless a flexible manufacturing system is established, which can respond quickly to needs of the market that is undergoing diversification in every aspect of quality, amount, delivery term and cost, and changing considerably in a shorter cycle.
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