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Established in 1968, Korea-based POSCO is the world's largest steel manufacturer with an annual crude steel production capacity of 28 million tons and annual revenues of $ 60.86 Bn The company makes hot- and cold-rolled steel products, which it sells to the auto and ship building industries.
Established in 1968, Korea-based POSCO is the world's largest steel manufacturer with an annual crude steel production capacity of 28 million tons and annual revenues of $ 60.86 Bn The company makes hot- and cold-rolled steel products, which it sells to the auto and ship building industries.
Legacy Integration
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Manufacturing
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POSCO's Business and technical drivers can be summarized as follows:
POSCO's IT infrastructure consists of 600 computers (in different geographical locations in S. Korea) of different hardware, different Operating Systems. Some of these PCs communicate over BSC protocols while others over the TCP/IP protocol, resulting in setting up of two parallel networks with little scope of communication between these PCs.
The existing point-to-point interfaces between various applications at the different steel Works make monitoring, maintenance and new application development extremely difficult and time consuming.
The current IT infrastructure is a much-closed system that is resistant to any changes in hardware or software configuration. This results in extremely high maintenance and upgrade costs.
Currently, POSCO manually monitors all the Process Computer's at its various steel Mills. This needs a team of 15 engineers at each of its site. Average time between problem occurrence and its detection is quite high (approximately 4 hours).
Data exchange between a Process Computer (P/C) and a Business Computer (B/C) is not over a reliable link. Moreover, the only Backup and Recovery System (BRS) is a complex process of analyzing logs at each of the PC's and comparing with that of a B/C to manually detect differences. All logs are stored at network endpoints and at times these could be more than 200 miles from the place of detection of problem. The current system provides almost no support for remote access of logs and events for remote debugging. POSCO currently has no disaster recovery system implemented across the all steel Works. In case the Business Computer at KwangYang goes down, there is no process in place to ensure that the Business Computer at Pohang takes control of all the PC's. This switch has to be made manually at each of the 200 P/Cs that are distributed at different geographical locations across South Korea.
$60.86 Bn.
Revenue
Revenue improved by 5.24 times offering
an improved ROI with Fiorano Platform implementation
POSCO's Business and technical drivers can be summarized as follows:
POSCO's IT infrastructure consists of 600 computers (in different geographical locations in S. Korea) of different hardware, different Operating Systems. Some of these PCs communicate over BSC protocols while others over the TCP/IP protocol, resulting in setting up of two parallel networks with little scope of communication between these PCs.
The existing point-to-point interfaces between various applications at the different steel Works make monitoring, maintenance and new application development extremely difficult and time consuming.
The current IT infrastructure is a much-closed system that is resistant to any changes in hardware or software configuration. This results in extremely high maintenance and upgrade costs.
Currently, POSCO manually monitors all the Process Computer's at its various steel Mills. This needs a team of 15 engineers at each of its site. Average time between problem occurrence and its detection is quite high (approximately 4 hours).
Data exchange between a Process Computer (P/C) and a Business Computer (B/C) is not over a reliable link. Moreover, the only Backup and Recovery System (BRS) is a complex process of analyzing logs at each of the PC's and comparing with that of a B/C to manually detect differences. All logs are stored at network endpoints and at times these could be more than 200 miles from the place of detection of problem. The current system provides almost no support for remote access of logs and events for remote debugging. POSCO currently has no disaster recovery system implemented across the all steel Works. In case the Business Computer at KwangYang goes down, there is no process in place to ensure that the Business Computer at Pohang takes control of all the PC's. This switch has to be made manually at each of the 200 P/Cs that are distributed at different geographical locations across South Korea.
$60.86 Bn.
Revenue
Revenue improved by 5.24 times offering an improved ROI with Fiorano Platform implementation
J. M. Lee, Head EAI Team, POSCO
J. M. Lee, Head EAI Team, POSCO
After researching possible solutions to satisfy the requirements, the POSCO Architecture Group recommended implementing Fiorano Platform to provide a service-based architecture connecting the varied as software and hardware platforms as mentioned above. The Platform is a distributed Services integration platform that simplifies the composition, deployment, modification and debugging of business processes. POSCO was looking for a highly scalable solution that could provide seamless data and process integration. Unlike solutions patched together with several point-products, It is a distributed platform based on the super peer technology with a layered architecture comprising:
Steel manufacturing is one of the most complex processes. POSCO is leveraging the power of technology to simplify its steel manufacturing processes and business related tasks such as connecting the manufacturing systems to its digital management system called POSPIA. POSPIA consists of POSCO's e-Sales and e-Purchasing and across the company's value chain over the Web. To help make this happen, the company selected Fiorano Platform as its platform for flexible integration and Business Process Automation Capabilities.
After researching possible solutions to satisfy the requirements, the POSCO Architecture Group recommended implementing Fiorano Platform to provide a service-based architecture connecting the varied as software and hardware platforms as mentioned above. The Platform is a distributed Services integration platform that simplifies the composition, deployment, modification and debugging of business processes. POSCO was looking for a highly scalable solution that could provide seamless data and process integration. Unlike solutions patched together with several point-products, It is a distributed platform based on the super peer technology with a layered architecture comprising:
Steel manufacturing is one of the most complex processes. POSCO is leveraging the power of technology to simplify its steel manufacturing processes and business related tasks such as connecting the manufacturing systems to its digital management system called POSPIA. POSPIA consists of POSCO's e-Sales and e-Purchasing and across the company's value chain over the Web. To help make this happen, the company selected Fiorano Platform as its platform for flexible integration and Business Process Automation Capabilities.
- Integration of applications running on disparate hardware and Operating Systems
- Open systems architecture
- Implementation of a Disaster Recovery System
- Integration of legacy systems with best-of-breed new applications
- Management of different data format
- Real-time administration and monitoring of applications
- Improvement in quality and operational processes
- Respond to business changes quickly and more efficiently
- Integration with partner applications
- Automation of Business Processes Spanning Geographical Boundaries
- Integration of applications running on disparate hardware and Operating Systems
- Open systems architecture
- Implementation of a Disaster Recovery System
- Integration of legacy systems with best-of-breed new applications
- Management of different data format
- Real-time administration and monitoring of applications
- Improvement in quality and operational processes
- Respond to business changes quickly and more efficiently
- Integration with partner applications
- Automation of Business Processes Spanning Geographical Boundaries
The Platform built-in extensibility and standards-based interoperability provides a significant ROI
With Fiorano Platform, POSCO is successfully streamlining and automating internal processes company-wide and also web enabling many of its operational support systems, improving service to its customers in the competitive Steel Manufacturing marketplace.
It provided POSCO with multiple levels of failover support.
Its component model provided POSCO with a distributed, internet-enabled network and also allows (through the aid of visual tools) the efficient synthesis and deployment of enterprise business processes by programmers and enterprise managers alike, while supporting a high-degree of reusability and flexibility.
The Platform built-in extensibility and standards-based interoperability provides a significant ROI
With Fiorano Platform, POSCO is successfully streamlining and automating internal processes company-wide and also web enabling many of its operational support systems, improving service to its customers in the competitive Steel Manufacturing marketplace.
It provided POSCO with multiple levels of failover support.
Its component model provided POSCO with a distributed, internet-enabled network and also allows (through the aid of visual tools) the efficient synthesis and deployment of enterprise business processes by programmers and enterprise managers alike, while supporting a high-degree of reusability and flexibility.
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