Plant-Wide Research Group - April 26, 2004 - IFS America Makes Significant Sale of IFS ERP Apps To Stolle Machinery

IFS America has announced that Stolle Machinery will implement IFS Applications business software at all four of its machinery manufacturing facilities, located in Colorado and Ohio. Founded in 1961, Stolle Machinery designs, engineers, and assembles complex production machinery. The company is a worldwide market leader in the can machinery industry, offering a line of equipment for manufacturing can ends and can bodies. In addition, with its Didde web-press product line, Stolle Machinery is a leader in the web offset printing industry, having the largest installed base in North America. The company will use IFS’ applications for SCM, Financials, Engineering and Project Management, Document Management, Quality Management, and Business Modeling. It will also deploy IFS’ web portals to enable real-time communication throughout the enterprise and IFS eLearning™ training materials to ensure cost-effective training. Industrial manufacturing is one of IFS’ targeted vertical markets. IFS has a broad customer base, focusing on medium to large-size manufacturers that need support for complex, order-driven and mixed-mode manufacturing across the extended enterprise. With strong support for project management, engineering, constraint-based scheduling, product configuration, and after-sales support, IFS’ business solution helps companies improve quality, contain costs, and improve their competitive position in manufacturing industry segments such as machinery, defense, fabricated metal products, and plastic products. Industrial manufacturing companies also benefit from IFS’ lifecycle management solution, which goes beyond product lifecycle management (PLM) to provide better integration and management of three critical business areas—products, customers, and resources—throughout their lifecycles. Some of IFS’ current customers in the industrial manufacturing industry include Deere & Co., Dresser-Rand, Gehl, Star Cutter, Remmele Engineering, and Johnson Pump.