ACCELERATING DECISIONS.POWERING INNOVATION.

If we want to go to the moon again, we’ll be starting from scratch because all of that knowledge has disappeared. It would take at least as long and cost at least as much to go back.

NASA MANAGER, Lost Knowledge – David DeLong

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KNOWLEDGE LOSSIS CRIPPLING TODAY’S INDUSTRY

50%of the engineering workforce eligible for retirement in 2015Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, IEEE, ASME

44%of organizations have no knowledge transfer process in place and no plans to create oneSource: Training+Development

1-2.5%of total revenues are lost due to decreased productivity resulting from learning curve for new hiresSource: Mellon Financial Corp

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30%of total R&D spend is wasted duplicating research and work previously done.Source: National Board of Patents and Registration (PRH), WIPO, IFA

54%of decisions are made with incomplete, inconsistent and inadequate informationSource: InfoCentric Research

YOU INVEST MILLIONS IN TOOLS FOR YOUR ENGINEERS, YET

THEY STILL CAN’T FINDTHE INFORMATION THEY NEED

13%Increase in engineer’s time spent searching for information since 2002.Source: Outsell

Your competition is:› Solving key design problems

› Innovating new technologies

› Filing new patents

AND WHILE YOU

WASTE TIME & MONEYTRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT ANSWERS …

BEATING YOU TO MARKET

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WHAT IF YOUR ENGINEERS HAD

THE ANSWERS THEY NEEDAT THEIR FINGERTIPS?

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› Authoritative content that brings all the relevant industry knowledge and best practices to your user’s desktop

› Advanced research capabilities to pinpoint the answers within mountains of internal and external data

› Strategic problem solving tools that speed answers to the toughest problems in key workflows

› Industry expertise in the design of the platform - the only solution purpose-built to help technical professionals advance decisions and fuel innovation - and in a team of innovation experts to help you get the job done fast and right

NOW THEY DO.

IHS GOLDFIRE

A platform that accelerates decisions and powers innovation by delivering:

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IHS GOLDFIRE THE DECISION-ENGINE PLATFORM

SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE

 

INNOVATIONTRENDS ANALYSIS

 

ADVANCED PROBLEM SOLVING TOOLS

 Market, technology & competitive trends

 

Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, Value Engineering & TRIZ

 

Pinpoint answers & concepts in 400+ document types

 

Tools to innovate and solve problems faster

The world’s best team of innovation experts

Experienced innovation, research & systems deployment expertise

 

CONSULTING  

YOUR INTERNAL CONTENT

 

HIGH VALUE IHS CONTENT

 

TRUSTED PARTNER CONTENT

 IHS Standards Expert, GlobalSpec, ESDU, Jane’s,

& dozens more

 

90+ million documents from McGraw-Hill, Springer, IEEE,

NASA & scores more

 

Trusted authoritative content

Intranet, project files, email, PDM, PLM, ERP, servers,

& data centers

 

EXTERNAL CONTENT 

Patents, websites, social media, RSS feeds

& more

 

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IHS CONTENT

IHS Standards Expert

IHS ESDU

IHS EIATrack

IHS Jane’s*

IHS Electronics & Media

IHS Automotive*

Search 90+ million documents

EXTERNAL CONTENT

PARTNER CONTENT

IHS EHS&S*

IHS Chemical

IHS Energy*

IHS Global Insight*

IHS GlobalSpec

… and more

Search your institutional knowledge

CORPORATE CONTENT

EMAILS

FILES

SERVER

INTRANET

PLM, PDM, ERP

DATA CENTER

PRECISE ACCESS TO

90 MILLION DOCUMENTSPLUS KNOWLEDGE INSIDE THE CORPORATION

…and hundreds more

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IHS GOLDFIREEMPOWERS YOU TO:

› Develop new products faster

› Discover new markets

› Improve production & quality

› Minimize risk

› Boost operational efficiency

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› Accelerate idea generation

› Improve idea-to-products conversion rates

› Shorten design cycles & minimized rework

› Avoid potential intellectual property barriers

DEVELOPNEW PRODUCTS FASTER

Tools like Goldfire have dramatically improved our efficiency and effectiveness …Goldfire has allowed us to make great strides in rapidly developing new technology.

VP Technology, Leading Aerospace & Defense Company

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› Find new markets for current technologies

› Identify unmet needs

› Strategize new market entry

› Discover next-generation technology trends and opportunities

DISCOVERNEW MARKETS

We need to move fast to seize new growth opportunities … Without Goldfire there would have been a high risk of reinvention or investment to later discover we were infringing on someone else’s patent. Goldfire turbocharged our engineering efforts, which made a difference in seizing this market opportunity.

Chief Engineer, Global Automotive Company

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› Improve quality while minimizing defects

› Reduce product costs

› Streamline production processes

› Design products that are easier to operate, manufacture and service

› Enable faster, more complete FMEAs and Root Cause Analysis

Goldfire is a tool that helps optimize the innovation process. It does this byenabling you to identify the real problem, to analyze and understand the identifiedproblem in order to find solutions and to generate high quality ideas. - Innovation Project Manager, billion dollar environmental services company

IMPROVEPRODUCTION & QUALITY

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› Reduce the liability of product defects

› Better manage supply chain risk

› Know the competitive landscape

› Understand compliance regulationsand issues

During user-acceptance testing, a leading manufacturer of electronic sensors suffered an erroneous (false positive) signal in a critical military surveillance device – risking delivery schedules and contract awards. By using IHS Goldfire, the fault was rapidly discovered and delivery deadline met.

MINIMIZERISK

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› Accelerate research and innovation

› Leverage prior corporate knowledge to minimize design cycles, rework & reinvention

› Reduce the learning curve of junior employees

› Capture and reuse expertise

A leading medical device company’s engineers who use IHS Goldfire spend only 10% of their time researching intelligence, compared to 20-30% for non-Goldfire users.

BOOSTOPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

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ANSWERS ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE

Faster innovation X X X X X

Knowledge capture X X X X X

Knowledge reuse X X X X X

Identify IP issues X X X X

R&D

Design Eng.

Product Mgr.

Support

Manufacturing

IT Strategy

Improve competitive intelligence X X X X

Improve customer satisfaction X X X X

Improve protection/leverage of IP X X X X

Reduce defects X X X X X

Reduce liability X X X X X

Reduce manufacturing costs X X X X X

Faster root cause analysis X X X X X

Reduce research time X X X X X

Faster ramp-up of new hires X X X X X

Learn lessons from past X X X X

Identify solutions from past projects X X X X

Understand risks X X X X X X

Manage/anticipate risks X X X

Reduce liability X X X

Understand compliance issues X X

Speed to Market

Drive Market Share

Improve Operational Efficiency

Address Aging Workforce

Better Manage Risk

IHS:

ANSWERS YOU NEEDFROM THE AUTHORITIES YOU TRUST

› $1.7 billion global company

› World’s largest distributor of engineering standards

› Over 7 million technical professionals leveraging IHS solutions today

› Expertise to support global deployments and ensure your success

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YOUR COMPETITION WON’T WAIT WHILE YOU

SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS

SEE IHS GOLDFIRE IN ACTION.http://www.ihs.com/info/st/goldfire-online-demo.aspx

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