Software Selection for High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing

Manufacturers and high-tech companies today understand that change presents a constant challenge. Competition can come from anywhere on the globe at breathtaking speed, and risk and opportunity are often closely coupled. Keeping risk at bay, and identifying and seizing opportunity, are traits of companies that thrive in this environment. Enterprise (ERP) software is one of the main tools modern manufacturers leverage to grasp the opportunities that arise from successfully meeting challenges

IFS Service Management Overview

IFS Service Management Customer Testimonials

Testimonial from an IFS Service Management customer.

IFS Field Service Management Associa Customer Story

Property management company Associa has leveraged cloud technology to improve efficiency and work order management for its mobile service force. By implementing IFS Field Service Management (FSM) solution, Associa was able to accomplish:

• Improved service level agreement (SLA) oversight and compliance
• Standardize its work order processes
• Increase billable hours

IFS Field Service Management NEE Customer Story

Never saying no to your customers is a sizeable undertaking for any enterprise, especially in a complex business like NEE’s. NEE, a distributor of energy-related equipment throughout Canada, implemented IFS Field Service Management so that it could turn its challenges into profitable business opportunities, enter new business areas and expand its offering.

The Connected Service Business

Service providers must ensure on-time performance of mission-critical tasks while optimizing remotely deployed workforces. A new wave of technologies and increased pressure to provide excellent service are forcing the field service industry to adapt. This will continue as customer expectations increase and industry competition continues to grow.

Software Selection for Enterprise Resource Planning

In our digital, data-driven, constantly accelerating modern business environment, the use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is one of the principal tools companies use to manage and leverage change to maintain or improve competitive standing. For most companies, it is the most important technology they will implement to run their business.

IFS and GIS: A Powerful Tool For Enterprise Asset Management

The use of computer-based maps in organizations and across society in general is becoming pervasive. Maps make it possible to view a wide variety of information in a geographic format. And that geographically displayed data empowers people and organizations to analyze information more precisely, make more informed decisions, and improve operations.

IFS has aligned itself closely with Esri and has developed a robust integration with the Esri GIS software. This IFS integration with Esri enables geographicbased data visualization and analysis for multiple diverse purposes.

Ensuring Military Assets Are At The Ready – Is PBL Still The New Approach?

The defense industry has for some years, along with other high-tech industrial markets, been transforming from being solely engineering and manufacturing oriented to focusing on platform and asset availability. Companies are now typically judged on product availability and performance over lifecycles that might last 50 years. Suppliers are already on a transformational staircase, moving from traditional organic support, through spares inclusive maintenance arrangements, to contracted platform availability and eventually whole capability like the Voyager multi-role tanker, or the Ascent Flight Training military flying training contract in the UK.

The Need For Complete Traceability in the Food and Beverage Industry

One of the biggest fears for process manufacturing companies is a product or ingredient being contaminated by an unknown source. The process manufacturing supply chain is long and complex. It includes international and domestically sourced processors, distributors, shippers and consumers. With all this complexity, companies still have to maintain proper regulatory standards while keeping high quality services, in what is an increasingly competitive market.