Case Study: Columbus Stainless achieves agile, profitable steel production with Progress Corticon

Columbus Stainless improves production cycles by up to 90% with Progress Software

Columbus Stainless, the only stainless steel flat products manufacturer in Africa, faced the challenge of achieving agile and profitable production. Their complex manufacturing process involved hundreds of variables, and their legacy production planning system was aging and costly to maintain. To replace it, they turned to vendor Progress Software and its product, the Progress Corticon Business Rules Management System (BRMS), seeking a responsive and cost-effective solution.

The solution involved implementing Progress Corticon to externalize business rules from application code, empowering business analysts and industrial engineers to manage rules without relying on IT developers. This collaborative approach significantly reduced development time and created a more agile operation. As a result, Columbus Stainless gained the ability to maintain high margins in a volatile market and accelerated rule development cycles by up to 90%, according to Progress Software.

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