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With integrated life-cycle support, IFS lets you better integrate and manage your assets and customers throughout their life cycles. You can more quickly and easily make business decisions across the entire product value chain, considering such factors as profitability and complete life-cycle support. IFS also uses the latest Web technology to make it easy for people throughout your enterprise to get the information they need, in real time, no matter where they are. Using role-based personal portals, your maintenance and service technicians can access the documents they need to do their daily jobs, such as job lists, final reports, and fault reports. They can graphically navigate through plant diagrams. You can even create a wireless network so that your technicians in the field can use PDAs to view and enter information as they work. The information is then synchronized with the main system at the end of the day.
Fewer unplanned stoppages
IFS’ EAM application improves your company’s bottom line by optimizing operational and maintenance procedures, resulting in fewer unplanned stoppages. Based on industry standards, IFS’ functionality for collecting data from the process and control
systems lets you maximize condition-based maintenance and minimize breakdowns and disruptions. You can improve the material procurement process to achieve a balance between low cost and high availability. With IFS’ overall equipment efficiency (OEE) and business performance tools, you can measure and define disruptions and then associate them with their causes, such as maintenance issues, inadequate training, or design flaws. Using the results of this
analysis, improvement groups throughout your organization can collaborate and recommend solutions. Better document management
Managing documentation isn’t an end itself. It’s an essential part of your everyday operations. Getting the right information to the right people at the right time avoids confusing, unnecessary delays, and costly errors. With IFS’ simple, powerful, and
integrated approach to document management, you have full control over your company’s documentation so you can focus on the things that really matter: selling your products and services, and ultimately, meeting or exceeding your business goals. As you create documents in IFS Applications, the system links the documents and document lists directly linked to various plant objects, e.g. maintenance activities, preventive maintenance schedules, or purchase orders. This lets you access them
quickly in all your business processes. The document management application helps you keep plant information updated, letting you take action more quickly and use the entire maintenance system more efficiently. Better workforce management
In IFS Applications, operations and maintenance are tightly integrated with IFS’ human resources application. This ensures more efficient competence management and improved long-term organizational planning at all levels. The system also contains
built-in procedures for planning succession, including development programs for replacing key employees at various levels and in different departments.
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