Abstract
In recent years, manufacturing companies are being challenged to meet various social demands including short-term delivery, multiobjective production, quality assurance and traceability security. In order to meet these demands, keep and strengthen competitiveness, it is necessary for those companies to introduce IT. However, since it is often too expensive for small and medium sized enterprises to develop, operate and maintain IT systems, they cannot introduce them. We have developed an IT system development framework “MZ Platform” which enables manufacturing industry workers to construct and operate IT systems without professional IT knowledge, in order to encourage manufacturing companies to introduce IT systems. We describe our research and development approach and dissemination activities, and discuss effects of MZ Platform.
