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| | 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: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Service
And the sooner you use enterprise software, the quicker the ROI!

Last week Martin Gunnarsson blogged that “Owning enterprise software doesn’t add value to your business; using it does.” How true…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas
ISO 14224: PROVE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SAY YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR MOBILE OFFSHORE ASSETS

There has always been a significant financial reward for high levels of equipment reliability in the oil and gas industry….

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Asset Intensive
A Simple Definition of RCM II

The concepts behind reliability centered maintenance (RCM) are about 40 years old, but there is a growing interest in RCM…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas, Service
The Most Under-appreciated Link in the Energy Value Chain?

Companies in the energy sector are getting a lot of attention these days. New and innovative technologies are making more…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Business Technology
Gartner Visionary Spot in Power Generation EAM – What does it mean?

IFS’ first customer was a nuclear power plant. And anyone who works for or is close to IFS will have…

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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: 1 minute | Asset Intensive, Service, Strategy
Podcast — Corporate Culture, RCM and EAM Software

According to maintenance and reliability guru Carlo Odoardi, the primary barrier to successful enterprise asset management (EAM) software and reliability…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Asset Intensive, Events, Service
IFS World 2013: Services and Assets Breakout

IFS is offering ever-more sophisticated solutions for easy management of the whole asset lifecycle and work scheduling. Here’s an insight into what comes next.

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Asset Intensive, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
Are you ready for building information modeling (BIM)?

What do you need to know in order to be building information modeling (BIM) compliant? Do you need to invest…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas
The Technology that Will Power the Energy Revolution

“The lamps are going out all over Europe,” said Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey as the UK stood on the…

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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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