Case Study: Kawasaki Heavy Industries achieves high productivity and agile change management with Uniface

High Productivity with Customized Mission-Critical Uniface Application

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Robot Division, a global leader in robotic manufacturing, needed a flexible, mission‑critical production management system that could adapt quickly to frequent business changes. After finding no suitable packaged app, they chose a data‑focused, model‑driven platform to enable rapid development and easy modification.

Using Uniface (introduced in 1995), a small team learned the tool quickly and built a customized system — plus parts and packing modules — that runs 24/7, manages over 620,000 parts, and supports more than 100 change requests annually. The result was higher productivity, faster responses to user needs at realistic cost, and a clear path to future web and cloud deployments.

Kawasaki

Yasushi Kurosawa

Manager, Information System Section