Among various elementary technologies which are common to NKK's steel division and engineering division, the Applied Technology Research Center has identified certain technologies which are both particularly important and competent in NKK's business as SCT (Strategic Core Technologies) and targeted those technologies for strategic R&D. This paper presents an outline and typical examples of the application of SCT in each of the nine technology areas of the Applied Technology Research Center (instrumentation systems, control systems, scheduling and simulation, mechanical systems, civil engineering and building technology, ceramic engineering, physical and chemical analysis, biology for environmental solutions, and catalysis for energy).

Elementary technology, Design, Sensing system, Control system, Numerical system, Mechanical system, Civil engineering and building technology, Ceramic engineering, Physical and chemical analysis, Microbeam analysis, Biotechnology, Environment, Catalysis