Research shows that the fundamentals of asset management and maintenance excellence will remain integral to the optimal performance. Organizations in asset-intensive industries must ensure that their adherence to EAM excellence goes beyond the surface. Enterprise asset management (EAM) excellence can be defined in many ways, but essentially, it is about optimizing the operation of assets…
IFS Radio Network podcast: The topic of digital transformation may not have meant anything to the oil and gas industry three years ago, but today it’s a fact of life. We hear the term “Digital Transformation” being talked about quite a bit by the press. It’s something that is affecting companies in every industry, regardless…
The most aggressive companies are racing to be leaders of the oil and gas industry’s new playing field. Last month I attended Subsea Valley Conference 2016; a conference that gathers the subsea cluster in what we call “engineering valley” outside Oslo. I was expecting doom and gloom sessions mirroring the depressed investment climate of the…
Office workers, engineers, managers – even CEOs – have all now forgotten what the world looked like before the smartphone or the tablet. Being available 24/7 is sometimes no joke at all, but the freedom it gives us more than compensates for the extra hassle. Wouldn’t it be nice to finish off your work when…
When it comes to the end user, they don’t care if it’s IFS, SAP, Maximo or Oracle. They care about the service, and the experience with the application. These are not my words but the words of Seadrill, a leading offshore deepwater drilling company, and one of our longest-standing customers in the drilling industry. This…
The right tools include IFS Applications as BW Offshore’s ERP backbone, as Ekløff explains in detail in a case study and video testimonial. A sense of scale is a useful attribute to have when you look at a floating production, storage and offloading vessel – an FPSO – as you consider the business needs of…
