The Engineering Manager's blind spot

How much engineering time is spent solving the wrong problems?

Your success metrics

Keeping product data, configurations, drawings, BOMs, and engineering changes accurate.
Avoiding disruption to live development, production support, and compliance processes.
Maintaining traceability from design through manufacturing, service, and asset lifecycle.
Supporting standards, audit requirements, and sector-specific regulatory needs.
Improving collaboration between engineering, procurement, production, quality, and service teams.
Moving toward standard processes without losing the controls that engineering teams depend on.
Reducing manual rework caused by disconnected engineering, operations, and supply chain data.

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more efficient capital assets teams
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quicker equipment or site outage resolution
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three-year ROI in IDC Business Value study

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average annual staff efficiency benefits
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improvement in timely delivery of orders and products

What you're probably thinking

Concern	Response
We cannot risk losing engineering data.	Data continuity, traceability, and controlled migration help protect product, configuration, and process information throughout the transition.
Compliance cannot be disrupted.	Standards compliance, traceability, audit trails, and consistent process control help maintain governance and confidence throughout the transition.
Our engineering processes are too specific.	Best-practice templates, extensibility, and low-code tailoring help support unique engineering processes while reducing unnecessary complexity.
Customizations are part of how we work.	The path to cloud helps reduce customization debt while protecting essential differentiation through extensibility and supporting future upgrades with greater flexibility.
Engineering cannot slow production.	Connecting engineering with production, procurement, quality, and service helps reduce rework, minimize handoff delays, and keep operations moving efficiently.

Proven results

Schoeller Allibert said it asked IFS for standard best practice for its sector and adapted to it. The template meant the company needed only a handful of customizations, none of which would affect its path to IFS Cloud in the future.