Nexsta Co., Ltd. (Location: Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Representative Director: Hiroki Nagahara) is pleased to announce that it has been certified in the production management category with the Good Product badge awarded by "IT Trend," a comparison site for corporate IT products and services provided by Innovation & Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President: Kazuma Saito). The "IT Trend Good Product badge" recognizes particularly excellent products based on evaluations from users who actually utilize the IT product comparison and information request site "IT Trend." It aims to honor companies that support the IT transformation of many user companies among the corporate IT products, which have seen lowered entry barriers, and to promote products with higher customer satisfaction. In this ninth edition, the production management cloud system "SmartF" has been certified in the production management category. Moving forward, "SmartF" will continue to uphold our mission of providing a "textbook for improvement" to all manufacturing industries and will promote DX (digital transformation) in Japan's manufacturing sector.

Nexsta Co., Ltd. has been awarded the Best Award in the Production Management System category at the "PRO of the DX Award 2025 (First Half)," a recognition system newly implemented by PRONI Co., Ltd. through its "PRONI Aimitsu SaaS." This award selects SaaS companies/services with particularly high contract achievements and client evaluations among partner companies of PRONI Aimitsu SaaS during the period from January to June 2025, recognizing 30 categories and 80 companies with "Excellence Awards." Furthermore, in each category, only one company/service is selected as the "Best Award." SmartF has been addressing numerous on-site challenges as a packaged cloud system that requires no customization and allows for a small start. Encouraged by this award, we will continue to strive to improve the productivity and profitability of more manufacturing clients.