International Firm Cemex informed that it is the first company in the cement industry to successfully operate remotely controlled plants from its central location in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. The Center for Cement Control (C3) operates 365 days a year, keeping track in real time of the operation of 14 cement plants, 25 ovens and 86 mills in Mexico, besides monitoring a cement plant in Colombia and another one in the US. Cemex informed that the uninterrupted monitoring of the system provides information along every stage of the production process, as well as the performance of the equipment that operates in the cement plants.