IFS provides leading contractors with project- and asset-based lifecycle management solutions, fully integrated with finance and human resources. From bidding and estimating, project planning and risk management to engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning, IFS Applications’ lifecycle support extends to maintenance and service, spare parts, refurbish and disposal – all based on a single system of record.
The construction industry’s global scale highlights issues related to industry best practices, data management and collaboration amongst highly trained professionals. Construction companies and contractors, as well as industrial-service providers, use IFS Applications to reduce risk and better manage life cycles – from design through disposal. Contractors and service providers have an industry-based solution for long-term asset and maintenance management.
With IFS Applications, project-based parameters control and determine schedules for engineering, procurement, document delivery and execution, co-ordinated by an efficient information flow amongst the different disciplines involved. With a project-driven solution – where the project itself is the engine – high-level visibility and transparency is ensured throughout your enterprise. The benefit is that everyone works to one common plan, ensuring projects deliver on time and budget.
Track project variations and changes as they happen, and make sure you get paid for them. IFS Applications includes a central repository – an engineering register – for multi-discipline engineering data, ensuring efficient and error-free data hand-overs from engineering to purchasing, manufacturing and construction to installation. Visibility extends to operations and maintenance, through as-designed, as-built and as-maintained equipment records.
In IFS Applications, contract costs and revenues are budgeted, tracked and compared. This ensures real-time visibility of incurred, committed and actual costs. Project cost control features support the periodic review process, comparing the latest project forecast to budget and previous forecast. These features can be brought to bear at any level of the work or cost breakdown structure. In addition, earned value management is supported, with comprehensive project accounting and revenue recognition features available.
IFS Applications helps you manage the future, not just the past.
Contractors want to sell their expertise as services. As the asset system of record, IFS Applications eases the transition to operations, with asset design and equipment data available from the start. Through the maintenance function, design changes can be tracked throughout the asset’s life.
Our solution combines calendar-based maintenance with event-based, condition-based and predictive maintenance strategies. Integration with global positioning (GPS) mobility solutions – including IFS Touch Apps – keeps all parties in sync, based on IFS’ leading mobile workforce scheduling and optimisation solution.
Babcock BES, is a strategic UK provider of engineering and support services to the Royal Navy. Babcock International Group PLC is a leading support services company. Its £1.2Bn market capitalisation ranks it among the top 200 quoted companies in the UK. Babcock Marine is a strategic UK provider of engineering and support services to the Royal Navy. It also operates in specialised commercial markets.
IFS emerged as a clear winner. The company showed that it understood the business, and the presentation was more relevant to our requirement for project-based engineering-to-order programmes. Alan Gilmour, project manager for Babcock BES
Hamworthy Gas Systems AS is a world leader in the development and delivery of gas systems for ships, offshore and landbased industry, as well as fluid handling systems for the offshore market. Headquartered in Asker outside Oslo, Norway, the company has increased its workforce from 50 to 250 full-time employees in the past four years. Annual operating income now far exceeds NOK 1 billion.
Put simply, we now have a system that supports our internal core value of continuous improvement.Eigil Ulsbøl, CFO
STX Europe is an international shipbuilding group whose goal is to be the leading builder of cruise ships and offshore vessels. The group has strong position in terms of developing state-of-the-art concepts, technology, processes and products for customers worldwide. STX Europe consists of 15 shipyards in Finland, France, Norway, Romania, Brazil and Vietnam. STX Europe has approximately 16,000 employees.
Projects are the very life blood of our business. IFS Applications has contributed to giving us better control of our projects.Noralf Gamlem, Head of ICT Offshore & Specialised Vessels
Damen is an international shipyards group with more than six thousand employees in 35 countries. The group builds an average of 150 vessels per year. In addition, Damen carries out repairs on more than 1,000 vessels annually.
We wanted to achieve a “first time right” position: enter correct data once only and then use it throughout the company. Ultimately, it was a question of optimising the entire supply chain. IFS Applications enables us to do so. Kees de Bruijn, Logistics Manager, Damen Shipyards Gorinchem
APTransco, based in Andhra Pradesh, India, came into existence in 1999 as a consequence of the restructuring of the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board (APSEB) to look after transmission of electricity in Andhra Pradesh. From Feb 1999 to June 2005 APTransco remained as single buyer in the state, purchasing power from various generators and selling it to distribution companies.
The successful implementation of the enterprise applications from IFS in APTransco has paved the way for its adoption by other transmission companies in India. Because it helps companies integrate several data sources and processes into a unified system, based on component-based software design, it is of great help to different departments with respect to storing and retrieving information in real time.
E&I Engineering (E&I) produces a complete range of custom-built switchgear, Distribution Boards and Busbar Trunking Systems for large scale industrial and commercial projects in a number of sectors, including financial services, hospitals, commercial and data centres.
IFS had the most demonstrable experience of working with project based businesses. [...] IFS' ERP application allowed for the most user-friendly configuration of data and was the most intuitive to use, allaying any fears regarding usability and adoption. Shauna Conway, Sub-Contract Manager, E&I Engineering
To us, IFS is a toolbox. It allows us to develop far more activities then we ever thought possible. Using IFS Applications is a pre-requisite for HFG to set the next step in our strategic development.Arjen Hoefkens, IT manager
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