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Asset Intensive
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What do you need to know in order to be building information modeling (BIM) compliant? Do you need to invest in new IT Infrastructure? IFS and Construction News are hosting a roundtable event in the Gherkin, London November 28th to discuss these and many more questions surrounding BIM. Private and public project owners alike are…
This podcast discusses IFS’s recognition as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for two types of software in the energy and utility industry. In this month’s IFS Radio Network news segment, Senior Advisor for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Stefan Pervik, discusses IFS Applications’ recognition as Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for two types…
“The lamps are going out all over Europe,” said Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey as the UK stood on the brink of the First World War. The British government today faces a similar, although more literal fear: of keeping on the lights during a period of unprecedented energy challenges. Just as the horrors of the…
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is viewed as one of the key methods allowing maintenance engineers to do more with less at the same time as minimizing risk. RCM provides a greater understanding of the level of risk that an organization is currently managing, as well as supporting the establishment of capital maintenance regimes, thereby increasing cost effectiveness and equipment uptime. Implementing an RCM solution is not necessarily a complex or procedure – particularly if an organization follows seven easy steps…
When the industrial revolution came to the paper manufacturing industry in the early 1900’s no one could have envisioned how quickly we would progress to a fully automated production environment with supply chains of raw material and finished goods so optimized that the actual production became a mere supporting activity. We have evolved efficiency in…
The mission of the Enterprise was to go where no one had gone before. Elements of any science fiction story will require us to suspend our disbelief enough to buy into and get hooked on the plot. In the case of the Star Trek series and movies, we have to believe in faster-than-light travel and…
For a couple of years Near Field Communications (NFC) has been pushed by Google and others as the next big thing for smartphones. There has been a lot said about the merits of consumer applications for NFC, including digital wallets and replacing some of Bluetooth. But what about applications in business—what role could NFC play there? Here at IFS we’ve been looking into just that.
How do you access enterprise software from mobile devices while doing maintenance work and other asset management activities?
It’s a question we recently asked executives at industrial companies with more than $50 million in annual revenue and have some involvement with enterprise software selection. We heard some surprising answers…