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Driving Efficiency Even Faster

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • Europe
Country
  • United Kingdom
Product
  • IBM® zIIP™ Enablement powered by Natural
  • Adabas Cluster Services powered by Adabas
  • Event Replication powered by Adabas
  • Eclipse-based Development powered by NaturalONE
  • Infrastructure Monitoring powered by webMethods Optimize
Tech Stack
  • IBM Mainframe
  • Adabas & Natural
  • Eclipse
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Cost Savings
Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries
  • Automotive
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Manufacturing System Automation
  • Predictive Maintenance
Services
  • System Integration
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers, with production facilities around the globe. In 1986, the company opened a plant in the United Kingdom, operated by Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK, a pan-European service provider to Nissan Europe. Today, the plant builds electric and other high-end cars, and is one of the most productive facilities of its kind in Europe. Its 6,700 employees produce over 500,000 vehicles per year, gaining it wide recognition as a benchmark in the automotive industry.
The Challenge
Nissan Europe, a pan-European service provider to Nissan Europe, faced several challenges. The company was dealing with competition from the East, reliance on manual processes, and an aging internal mainframe architecture. The company had relied on Software AG’s Adabas & Natural for database management and application development since it opened its flagship plant in the U.K. in the 1980s. However, with continuous improvements in efficiency and speed, the partnership has helped Nissan Europe develop an entire suite of mission-critical applications that run on Adabas & Natural, touching everything from manufacturing, to purchasing, to sales and marketing. With zero software failures in the past 30 years, Nissan Europe returned to Software AG for the next step in the evolution of its Adabas & Natural systems: committing to a new efficiency-boosting, feature-enhancing, cost-reducing project running through 2022.
The Solution
For the coming phase of an IT transformation running through 2022, Nissan Europe is implementing a series of five Software AG products aimed at increasing automation, improving manufacturing quality, and reducing delays and manufacturing costs. This is allowing Nissan Europe to get the absolute most out of its current Adabas & Natural architecture, while keeping an eye to the future. The products include zIIP Enabler for Natural, Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Event Replicator, Optimize for Infrastructure, and NaturalONE. These solutions are designed to boost performance, ensure continuity, automate real-time data processing, monitor infrastructure components, and modernize development tools.
Operational Impact
  • Improved performance by 100%
  • Boosted runtime by 30%
  • Enabled 24/7 production
  • Cut costs and modernized interoperability
Quantitative Benefit
  • Performance improvement by 100%
  • Runtime boost by 30%

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