| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Service
Field Service Buzzwords: Bringing it together

In this series we’ve discussed the service buzzwords I believe deserve the most attention in 2018 and in my last…

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Field Service Buzzwords: ‘Internet of Things’
IoT Header

Previously, we discussed the importance of delivering seamless customer service throughout the entire service lifecycle. In this blog we’ll discuss…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing
Smart Factories – The theory of constraints reborn?

Over the years there have been many paradigms that claim to optimize production and save the world—bottleneck, forward and backward,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Automotive, Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation
Predictive maintenance – moving from relevant to essential in the automotive industry
Worker performing test on machinery

The penalties for poor maintenance can be high—in energy production, loss of revenue and component costs, as well as fines…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Manufacturing, Transform Your Business
Era of the Smart Factory: How can manufacturers get to the future quicker?

Businesses are constantly told they will go broke if they do not digitally transform and quickly, but for manufacturers it’s…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure, Strategy, Transform Your Business
Q&A: Will construction companies be able to keep pace with demand?
Q&A: Will construction companies be able to keep pace with demand?

In this Q&A, Kenny Ingram, construction and contracting industry expert and Global Industry Director at IFS, answers questions on whether…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Manufacturing, Research, Service
EAM and ERP: An increasingly critical partnership
EAM and ERP

Meet our guest author, Ted Rohm, Senior ERP Analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) Ted Rohm is a Senior ERP…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Events, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Strategy, Transform Your Business
10 manufacturing buzzwords you should pay attention to
10 manufacturing buzzwords that you need to pay attention to today and tomorrow

We’re in an age of rolling waves of technologically-driven disruption. Which are the 10 emerging technologies with the biggest chance of impacting your business? Here’s our guesses.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Events, IFS News, Service
Collaborate and engage across the service lifecycle in IFS Applications 10
Collaborate and engage across the service lifecycle in IFS Applications 10

Keeping customers means staying close to customers. IFS Applications 10 brings three new tools for keeping engagement tight, connected and continuous.

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| | Estimated reading time: 8 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Oil & Gas, Service, Strategy
Digital investments are key to the recovery of the mining industry
Digital investments are key to the recovery of the mining industry

Digital investments, new business models, digital twins and IoT empower mining companies to leverage industry recovery. After a tough couple…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing
ERP 2028 part 2: traceability and digital string?
ERP 2028 part 2: traceability and digital string?

Imagine going forward in time 10 years, how will the technologies evolving today change the way we work? What will…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Process Manufacturing, Service, Strategy
Breakdowns or breakdowns?
predictive maintenance

Breakdowns in a plant or just breakdowns in communication? Is your plant and business at risk? This is the story…

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