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Infographic-FIAR compliance

Anyone in the United States military command or in the executive ranks of the aerospace industry knows auditability has been…

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Civil Aviation Should See Maintenance as a Profit Center
civil aviation mro software

The Wall Street Journal has shown that there is very little room for profit in the aviation industry. In fact,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Aerospace & Defense
Podcast: DCAA Compliant Software — Is there such a thing?

Compliance with Defense Contractor Audit Agency (DCAA) requirements is a top priority for any company doing business with the US…

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What Does 3D Printing Mean for ERP?

As I talk with customers at our IFS industry councils and at other professional events, I find many manufacturers and…

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Performance-Based Logistics: Cementing BRICS on the Path to Competitive Growth

BRICS nations have an opportunity to assert themselves on the global stage and are looking to invest in their armed…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Events, Strategy
Access these Valuable Resources from the IFS World Conference in Barcelona

If you had boots on the ground for the IFS World Conference in Barcelona, you are probably already aware that…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Events, Service
Cubic Case Study: Keeping cities moving with field service management software from IFS

Cubic makes – and supports – the fare gates used by the world’s transport systems. To keep those cities moving, they use Metrix and 360 Scheduling to hits SLAs and keep the gates open.

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Does your MRO operation have a strategy leakage?

The top-performing maintenance, repair and overhaul companies have defined an enterprise platform to overcome the barrier to organizational change by…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Aerospace & Defense, Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Process Manufacturing
7 Steps to Optimizing Operational Capability

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…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive
Putting the ENTERPRISE in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Software

The mission of the Enterprise was to go where no one had gone before. Elements of any science fiction story…

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Sustainability Monitoring – Do you do it? 68% of UK A&D companies don’t!

…and those that do, use manual spreadsheets! Governments of the world have been working towards an improved level of sustainability…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Research, Service
ERP in the Cloud: What do businesses want?

Today, most enterprise software runs on servers at a business’ premises. Of course a growing percentage of solutions like customer relationship management (CRM) or even enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications are delivered from the cloud. Sometimes they are even sold not through a perpetual license, but as as a subscription service or from the cloud.

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