NISSAN Sunderland - information technology.
NMUK relies heavily on Information Technology to function. Computer-controlled
robots and other machinery, particularly in the Body Shop, are vital to
production. These machines are maintained and controlled by specialist
engineering teams. Other functions, such as the complex scheduling of vehicles,
parts control and ordering, vehicle tracking, etc. are managed by software
written in-house. Most of the software resides on an IBM Mainframe. This
Mainframe is not just responsible for NMUK; it controls business functions
across the Europe region, including NMUK's sister plant, NMISA, based in
Barcelona, Spain. The Mainframe is located within the European Data Centre (EDC),
which, as well as housing and maintaining the Mainframe and over 50 PC servers,
acts as a European helpdesk.