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Railroad Service Provider Selects IFS Applications
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Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc. of Hamel, Minn., has
selected IFS Applications to replace its 19-year-old MRP
system.
Loram, a 700-employee maintenance
equipment and services provider to the railroad
industry, chose to implement IFS Applications to reduce
the number of legacy systems and the exorbitant costs
associated with maintaining the connections between
them. After thorough review of the marketplace, IFS
Applications was chosen because of its strong focus on
ETO for the mid-market and its proven MRO solution for
fleets.
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“We are
currently running multiple legacy systems, including
a clumsy CMMS that is difficult to use and expensive
to maintain. We realized that our 19-year-old MRP
system was outdated, and we needed to replace it
with a more sophisticated and reliable solution to
improve our bottom line,” said Loram CFO Don Cherrey.
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IFS Receives Award for EAM in the
A&D Industry
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IFS has been recognized by leading global growth
consulting company Frost & Sullivan for its increased
presence in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry.
IFS now has 31 percent total global market share of the
A&D EAM systems market.
Frost & Sullivan awarded IFS the
Global EAM Systems Market Penetration Leadership Award
for A&D. IFS was recognized for its product innovations and
unmatched customer focus, and reported its largest gain
in market share over two to three years. Due to this progress in A&D, Frost &
Sullivan also featured IFS in their Best Practice Hall
of Fame.
The award recognizes that IFS has
secured its position as a market-leader in the MRO and
asset lifecycle management space. It also reflects
the company’s role as a market innovator and IFS’
dedication to delivering solutions in response to its
customer needs.
Frost and Sullivan also reported that
IFS’ customers specifically commented on the ease of use
and faster payback associated with the implementation of
IFS solutions.
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"It is the superior
customer focus which
have established IFS as
the market leader in the
industrial vertical
sector," according to
Frost and Sullivan
research analyst R.
Aravindhan.
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Tips on Selecting and Implementing
EAM Software
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In this month’s edition of the IFS Radio Networ k,
IFS Implementation Manager Mike Auer provides
tips for selecting and implementing Enterprise Asset
Management (EAM) software.
Mike pays special attention to the importance of
integrating EAM with the rest of the enterprise.
Be sure to
stream the news segment of the IFS Radio Network for
a quick update on all things IFS.
Also from now on, news
will be posted as a separate audio file from our
informative interviews. Be sure to subscribe through iTunes to automatically receive these podcasts each
month.
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“In
my days as a maintenance manager, I know our finance
people would put things in cost buckets that didn’t
necessarily relate to how I would put together a
budget or how I looked at my costs. They would say
‘all of your facility costs were X dollars,’ which
would roll up fork lifts, air conditioning
maintenance, plumbing, exterior landscaping. It
really
wasn’t divided up the way
I needed it," says Auer.
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Visit IFS at These Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events |
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Enterprise Asset Management Summit 2008
- At this EAM/CMMS focused event, plant
professionals benefit from a series of
informative learning sessions, short courses,
networking opportunities and an option al
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March
18 - 20 |
Las Vegas
Booth 42 |
Industry Week - 2008 Best Plants Conference
- This conference will motivate your continuous
improvement journey through carefully selected
plant tours, inspiring speakers, educational
breakout sessions and numerous networking
opportunities.
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April
1 - 3 |
Milwaukee
Booth 108 |
MRO 2008 Conference & Exhibition 2008 - This
3-day event has expanded with extended
exhibition hours and a focus on green MRO
solutions. Check out the latest MRO services and
technology and exchange ideas with other
commercial and military experts.
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April
15 - 17 |
Fort Lauderdale
Booth 734 |
ERP Vendor Shootout - During this 1-day
event you will see a side-by-side comparison of
similar functionality, compare user interfaces
and usability and get critical insight into the ERP selection process through consultant break
out sessions and multiple vendor demonstrations.
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May 1 |
Charlotte |
Edison Electric Institute Annual Convention/Expo
- EEI gives you an unsurpassed opportunity to
communicate with the most influential leaders in
the electric power industry at their most
important meeting of the year. Join CEO's and
their senior-level management from companies of
all sizes in power generation, transmission and
distribution.
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June 15 - 18 |
Toronto, ON
Booth 521 |
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Utilize Express RFI for Smart
Software Decisions
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IFS Expr ess
RFI, certified by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC),
is the industry's easiest and quickest way to create an
RFI for enterprise applications. It provides a template
of more than 3,000 functional specifications, organized
by department. IFS Applications 7 functionality has
already been identified within the RFI, and each
response has been reviewed and certified by a TEC
industry analyst.
IFS Applications 7, a component-based enterprise software,
enables enterprise agility so that organizations can
take advantage of rapidly changing international market
conditions. It gives enterprises a service-oriented
architecture (SOA) with reusable business components
designed for improved user productivity, faster
implementation, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and
easier upgrades. Download a copy now. For more
information send an e-mail from the link below or call 1-888-437-4968.
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Going Lean, Step by Step with IFS
Applications
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IFS Applications supports
lean planning and execution of your operations all the
way from forecasting demand, customer scheduling, and
leveling production to setting line rates and pulling
parts using Kanban signals at the pace of actual demand.
Download this free white paper to see how IFS
Applications can facilitate takt time and order-based
shop floor execution, help forecast demand and allow for
kaizen costing.
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How is Holland Company Benefiting
from IFS? |
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 Listen
to Holland Company IT Director James Tieri discuss what
caused them to look for new software, the factors in
their selection process, the implementation timeline,
how IFS compared to other vendors and finally how
Holland is now benefiting from IFS Applications.Top |
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Life Science Company Went Live
with IFS Applications in Four Months
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Helicos BioSciences, of Cambridge, Mass., went live with
IFS Applications in approximately four months. Helicos
BioSciences, a young company positioned for growth, is a
life science company focused on innovative genetic
analysis technologies for the research, drug discovery,
and diagnostic markets.
Helicos’ goal is to enable genetic analysis on an
unprecedented scale by providing scientists and
research/clinicians the ability to compare genes and
genomes from thousands of individuals. This, in turn,
will lead to the potential for improved drug therapies,
personalized medicine and more accurate molecular
diagnostics for diseases like cancer. Helicos’ product
has the potential of having a high demand due to the
faster results it provides. To ensure its business
process could handle this resulting demand, its
forward-thinking company leaders chose to implement IFS
Applications.
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“Our
early commitment to an ERP application will help us
plan for and respond to the dynamics of the life
sciences marketplace. We feel strongly that IFS
Applications was the correct ERP choice based on our
needs to rapidly build our business processes.
Keeping in mind that our technology is cutting edge,
we also wanted an agile business system that would
scale with our plans for growth,” explained Helicos
BioSciences President and COO, Steve Lombardi.
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Upcoming Industry Events
Meet IFS at the following events:
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Enterprise Asset Management Summit 2008, Las
Vegas, March 18-20
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Industry Week - 2008 Best Plants Conference
Milwaukee, April 1-3
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Kennedy Information's Consulting Summit 2008,
San Francisco, April 10
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MRO 2008 Conference & Exhibition 2008, Fort
Lauderdale, April 15-17
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ERP Vendor Shootout, Charlotte, May 1
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Edison Electric Institute Annual Convention/Expo,
Toronto, June 15-18
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Recent Customer Go-Lives
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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
component-based enterprise resources planning (ERP)
software with IFS Applications, now in its seventh
generation. IFS’ component architecture provides
solutions that are easier to implement, run, and
upgrade. For more information, visit
www.ifsworld.com. |
About IFS
If
you're considering new ERP/EAM options, take a closer
look at IFS—the choice of successful companies such as
General Electric, BMW, Ericsson, and Lockheed Martin.
IFS' component-based software makes it easier for
companies to achieve rapid bottom-line results.
We'd like the opportunity to tell you the IFS story and
provide you with the latest IFS product releases.
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IFS Solutions For:
E-mail
us at
request@ifsworld.com, and one of our representatives will
be in touch with you shortly. |
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