Case Study: Columbus Stainless achieves greater agility and profitability with Progress Software Corticon

Columbus Stainless - Customer Case Study

Columbus Stainless, Africa’s only producer of stainless steel flat products, needed to replace an aging production planning system to better handle a highly complex manufacturing process with hundreds of variables, volatile raw material prices, and tight margins. The company turned to Progress Software and its Progress Corticon business rules management system to support more agile, profitable production planning and management.

Progress Software implemented Corticon to externalize and automate business rules in business-friendly terms, enabling business analysts and industrial engineers to manage logic without relying on developers. The solution improved transparency, reduced development time through parallel rule and application development, and increased testing capabilities; Progress Software reports that Corticon can improve cycles by up to 90%, helping Columbus Stainless achieve greater agility and maintain high margins in a fast-changing market.

Columbus Stainless

Alfrieda Robertson

Former Technical Project Leader