CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
August 27, 2007
Implementation Investments
Family of Companies to Standardize on IFS Applications
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Channel Products Inc., a Chesterland, Ohio-based manufacturer of ignition controls for gas appliances, has gone live on IFS Applications 7.
According to Channel Products CEO Dave Wozencraft, the company and other subsidiaries of its Santa Barbara-based parent, Channel Technologies Inc. will benefit from more timely financial and management reporting and increased flexibility, allowing process improvements that will help the family of companies to better serve its customers. Channel Technologies will also implement IFS Applications at its headquarters and other subsidiaries. .
"Our IFS Applications implementation went more smoothly than I expected," Channel Products President Dave Wozencraft said. "Our internal implementation team, managers from Channel Technologies and IFS worked seamlessly with our consultant, Norma Davis of Connective Edge Resources, who did an excellent job to ensure a smooth transition. We knew going in that this was more than an IT project, but rather an organization-wide initiative that required involvement of multiple business disciplines to succeed."
"It is very unusual to have such a smooth cutover to a new system, and this speaks to the strength and dedication of the implementation teams," Davis said. "Channel Technologies and Channel Products teams were able to work effectively as one team across organizational and departmental boundaries."
"Standardizing on IFS Applications is a very sound strategy for uniting divisions or subsidiaries into a unified company," IFS North America President and CEO Cindy Jaudon said. "Channel Technologies and its subsidiaries represent a diverse range of business models ranging from make-to-stock to engineer-to-order, and serve both government and commercial customers. IFS is uniquely suited to meet the diverse needs of such a broad family of companies."
About Channel Products and Channel Technologies
Headquartered in Chesterland, Ohio and with facilities in Jefferson, Ohio and China, Channel Products, Inc. is a leading design and manufacturing company that supplies electronic and piezoceramic ignitors, gas ignition safety controls, electrodes and sensor assemblies, wire assemblies, and accessories to the gas appliance industry worldwide. Additional products include piezoelectric ceramic materials, piezoelectric transducers, nebulizers, sensors, filters and resonators.
Established in 1983 as a parent company that evolved from the original company Channel Industries Inc., Channel Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries founded in Santa Barbara, California has been a part of the Santa Barbara community for nearly 50 years. The Channel Technologies, Inc. family of companies is comprised of six wholly owned subsidiaries, each of which excels in the development and manufacturing of their particular product line, providing a wide range of equipment and products for commercial and government contracts.
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