Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC, chooses IFS business software

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC, a division of Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer and recycler in the United States, has signed a contract to implement IFS Applications™ 7 business software. The Alabama facility becomes the second Nucor plant to switch to IFS Applications. Nucor’s plant in Jewett, Texas, went live with an IFS business solution in 2005.

“IFS Applications gives us a solid enterprise asset management solution that will enable us to increase asset availability, improve efficiency, and reduce asset lifecycle costs,” said Chad Potter, division controller for Nucor Steel Decatur. “The IFS solution will provide much greater visibility to key business information throughout the enterprise, enabling us to improve ongoing business operations.”

“We’re delighted that Nucor has chosen to build on its success at the Jewett, Texas, plant by deploying IFS Applications at a second facility,” said Cindy Jaudon, president and CEO of IFS North America. “Our integrated solution will give them the agility they need to meet the demands of increasing global competition while exploiting new business opportunities.”

The process industry is one of IFS’ seven targeted markets. IFS provides industry-specific functionality for enterprises in the metals, pulp and paper, food and beverage, and chemicals segments. IFS Applications for the metals industry provides support for all critical business processes, including reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), plant design, maintenance management, standardized real-time automation integration, order handling, manufacturing management, quality management, and demand planning. The application suite includes a complete asset and product lifecycle management solution.

IFS customers in the metals industry include Hutmen, SSAB, HMN Szopienice, WM Dziedzice, Nucor Corp., Elkem AS, and Surahammars Bruk. Other IFS process industry customers include Stora Enso, Holmen Paper, SCA Graphics, Pepsi, Iams, V&S Absolut Spirits, DuPont, Flint Group, Willamette Valley Co., Akzo Nobel, Becker Industrial Coatings, Jotun, and SICPA.

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