IFS articles
Colin Elkins chats to Dennis Grech, CEO & Managing Director of Geofabrics, Australasia’s largest supplier of geosynthetic products for infrastructure, about their sustainable manufacturing initiatives launched in 2020
“Towards the end of last year, we started looking at the sustainability market within Australia and how it would apply to geosynthetics. Geofabrics have been manufacturing in Australia since the mid-1980s, but we started looking at using
Colin Elkins
The global defense industry, like many sectors across the world, is experiencing unpredictable results in response to Covid-19. Military organizations are shedding their rigid structures and investing in new technology to allow them to continue with their domestic and foreign operations in response to the evolving crisis.
In fact, Matthew Medley
IFS Vice President of Energy, Utilities and Resources, Colin Beaney, discusses the highs and lows of the renewable energy sector through 2020, and looks at the factors at play influencing its future
It’s been an up and down year for the renewables sector
In my recent IFS Mindfuel presentation, I talked about the global growth in the demand for energy, and how the
Colin Beaney
House sales have slowed dramatically in many countries, so housebuilders are wrestling with what they need to do to ensure their future success. As countries come out of lockdown house sales volumes will start to pick up but will they recover to pre-COVID-19 levels?
We have also seen house prices drop since the COVID-19 crisis started so the next question is—will they recover or are we going to see them fall further, or even crash?
What can housebuilders
Kenny Ingram
The world has never been more aware of the importance of conserving resources and reducing carbon emissions. Nowhere is this growing consciousness more keenly felt than in the energy sector.
Companies need to navigate increasingly
Colin Beaney
While change is buffeting the industrial manufacturing industry from a number of directions, the most disruptive changes will be those which manufacturers can and should make for themselves. Many of these manufacturers are already taking advantage of technologies like the in
Antony Bourne
Service is part of an $18 billion massive global industry where technology is the spark and people are the glue. We are the customer experience economy with data the next currency, but it is what people spend on services that drive our economies. And it is the consumers who are increasingly demanding more – and we are delivering it
Marne Martin
Up to 28% more work orders a day, up to 60 less maintenance and operation hours a week, huge reduction in materials expenses.
When it comes to unlocking value from IT investment, there aren’t many asset-intensive organizations with more riding on their software implementations than those in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Enterprise software in an A&D setting can deliver huge maintenance savings and be the difference between mission success and failure.
Graham Grose
‘Aerospace & Defense 4.0’ is revamping the manufacturing landscape in A&D. Its emergence has signaled the arrival of cost-saving products and services and has enhanced the capability of current manufacturing processes and even business models. Such technologies hold much promise for A&D manufacturers going into 2020 and bey
Graham Grose
We are seeing the growing demand to integrate connected devices for field service operations. In a recent study by IFS, 30 percent of product-oriented companies said they are already using IoT for field service to some extent – a few companies are even harnessing IoT data to automatically trigger work orders or technician dispatches.
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Tom DeVroy