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Armstrong Standardizes Global Operation with IFS
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Armstrong International, Inc. (AII), headquartered in
Three Rivers, Mich., has selected IFS Applications in
order to unify its global manufacturing business. AII is
a manufacturer of intelligent system solutions for
steam, air and hot water utility applications. By
implementing IFS Applications, AII will integrate
locations in the US, Europe and Asia, for improved
communication, reduced transactions and consolidated
visibility of critical business information.
“We are currently running different
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems at all of our
main manufacturing facilities and this challenge had to
be addressed,” Armstrong International, Inc. Chief
Information Officer Kurt Armstrong said. “We began the
process of looking for a new ERP system in an effort to
become more global and streamline all our locations to
depend on one business system. We selected IFS because
it showed a strong backbone to support our manufacturing
needs, its shop floor control modules were very
impressive and in all it met the functionality
requirement at a low total cost of ownership.”
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Car Sound's Upgrade Took a
Fraction of the Time
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Car Sound Exhaust Systems, Inc.
successfully upgraded from IFS 2003 to Applications 7.
The original timeframe allocated by Car Sound for this
upgrade was eight months, however after only three
months they went live. Car Sound's upgrade included
standard modules and other third party solutions such as
a freight interface, Clippership and Scanworks.
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"Our upgrade from IFS 2003 to Applications 7 went
smoothly and efficiently, and it was completed in
almost 1/3 of the time we had anticipated," Car
Sound Exhaust Systems, Inc. Senior Director,
Information Technology
Marc Mendez said.
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Agile Pacific Partnership Webex
Rescheduled
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 The
IFS and Agile Pacific
partnership Webex has been
rescheduled for February 22.
Agile Pacific offers
expertise in implementing
transportation execution
solutions such as Agile
Elite, Clippership and
Connectship, which can be
integrated with IFS
Applications. For more
information about Agile
Pacific, visit
www.agile-network.com.
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Please join IFS North
America Director of
Strategic Alliances
David Eager and Agile
Pacific for a WebEx
overview,
Friday, February 22 -
10:30 a.m. CST.
Register Now!
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ERP and EAM Penetrate the
Construction Market
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In this month’s edition of the IFS Radio Network,
 IFS
construction industry guru Richard Cork discusses
the drivers behind the adoption of ERP by the
construction market. The rise of BIM and offsite
construction and the efficiencies of uniting
multiple departments on a single data set are dealt
with in depth.
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"One major contractor said to me – 'We are no longer
builders. We are asset managers. But some of our
assets aren’t built yet.' What we are now handing
over to the building owner is not a building or
asset, but an asset with a full set of asset
management tools. The successful contractors will be
the ones who are skilled at the asset management
side of the equation as well as the raw
construction." ~ Richard Cork
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EAM Summit - Have Three Times
the Fun in Vegas
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Don't miss this year's Enterprise Asset
Management Summit in Las Vegas, March 18-20.
EAM-2008 is collocated with RCM-2008 -
The Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers' Forum and
MTrain-2008 - The Maintenance Training and Recruiting
Conference - providing three times the value and
learning opportunities. The Enterprise Asset Management
Summit is a focused EAM/CMMS event where plant
professionals benefit from a series of informative
learning sessions, short courses, networking
opportunities and an optional full-day workshop.
IFS will be conducting software
demonstrations at Booth 42.
Stop by and see us!
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Free & Accurate Software
Comparison Tool
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Looking to compare software
functionality from one vendor to another? Take the
mystery out of the process and utilize the Comparison
Tool from Managing Automation at
www.managingautomation.com.
IFS has received the
Managing Automation Validation Seal two years in a row.
This seal is only awarded to companies that, like IFS,
have successfully completed a thorough independent
review of the product information provided on the
magazine’s Web site. This validation seal means that you
can be confident that those companies have made an
honest attempt to accurately represent their products'
functional capabilities.
The IFS Validation Report includes:
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a solution
overview
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a functional
overview, including a summary of key
capabilities by application and industry
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a technology
overview
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a description of
the new enhancements in IFS Applications
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an IFS company
overview
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and a description of Managing
Automation's validation methodology
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Segula Technologies Becomes an IFS
Customer
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The Segula Technologies
group, a global provider of engineering services and
solutions, has chosen IFS Applications to support
growth, and streamline service management and company
processes. Implementations will start in France with
deployment outside France later in 2008 in the
manufacturing sector. The
Segula Technologies group delivers complete engineering
solutions to its customers, such as ABB, Airbus, Alstom
and Renault, providing a project-centric approach to all
the services it delivers. Headquartered in France, the
group targets many different industries, including the
automotive, aeronautical, naval and nuclearsectors.
Human and physical resources are provided across the
entire product value chain, ranging from design, R&D,
prototyping and industrialization, all the way to
maintenance, repair and overhaul.
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IFS Energy & Utilities Solution
is Enhanced
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IFS has introduced enhancements to its integrated Energy & Utilities
solution.
Based on IFS' 25-year-long experience
in the industry, the integrated engineering
collaboration/capital project/O&M solution has been
developed in collaboration with energy & utilities
corporations directly targeting the mandates of the
industry. New capabilities include increased use of
mobile functionality, improved document management and
lower costs for customers.
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"The
industry has undergone tremendous change in recent
years, and we need enterprise applications that
support this change," Hafslund Project and
Development Director Dag Akselsen said. "We have
collaborated closely with IFS to gain maximum
benefit from IFS Applications."
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Designed for agility
IFS, the global enterprise applications company,
provides solutions that
 enable
organizations to respond quickly to market changes,
allowing resources to be used in a more agile way to
achieve better business performance and competitive
advantage. Founded in 1983, IFS pioneered
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General Electric, BMW, Ericsson, and Lockheed Martin.
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