| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas, Process Manufacturing, Strategy
Why Adopt ISO Standards for Asset Management? Here’s Why, and How.
ERP Podcast Series from IFS

ISO standards are a lot of things. Specifications for products and services. A third party stamp of approval for quality,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing
Trying to Make Sense of the Conflict Minerals Rule? Good luck with that!

Regardless of your position on government mandates for corporate social responsibility, one thing is certain. The U.S. Securities and Exchange…

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| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing
How Can I.T. Keep Up with the 3D Printing Revolution?

3D printing has continued to hit the headlines with some fascinating use cases, such as the architects in Amsterdam that…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology
Why does business agility matter now more than ever?

Change or die. It is a pretty simple concept!

And that is why IFS is devoting substantial resources (see the first in our series of business agility whitepapers) to making the case for increased business agility, not only in the thinking of executives and the intelligentsia, but in the technology infrastructure that holds an enterprise-class business together.

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
New NEC Case Study Illustrates the Benefits of Collaborative Working
NEC

One of IFS’s most successful business partnerships is with NEC Corporation, the Japanese multinational provider of IT services and products,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing, Mobility
3 Mobile Enterprise Software Myths Exposed

When a technology is not well-understood, a number of myths or urban legends can spring up to fill in the…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Manufacturing
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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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Asset Intensive, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
Project Integration Key to Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Success

As the global energy sector reconsiders the place of nuclear in the power generation portfolio, all eyes ought to be…

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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: 3 minutes | Events, Process Manufacturing
Magnaflow Case Study: Catalytic business conversion with IFS

Magnaflow is a high volume, high speed company, producing catalytic convertors in an expensive labour market. They need serious automation to survive where they are – and IFS provides it.

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Events
Miller: Agriculture, non-comformance reporting and IFS Applications 8

This is one of a series of live blog posts directly from the site of the 2013 IFS World Conference…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Aerospace & Defense, Events, IFS Labs
Lowering the Cost of Defense: Performance-based logistics
performance based logistics solutions

In 2012 worldwide defence spending fell for the first time in a decade. The largest falls were in NATO nations – and there’s not much chance of that changing. Forces need to maintain their capability in that context. New equipment isn’t coming on stream, and thus older equipment is being use for longer – by necessity and design. What can technology do to help in this situation?

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