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News Release from: BASF IT Services BV
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 September 2005
BASF's farms polymer research IT to new
operation
There is very little that is more confidential to a company than its research results because they form the basis of its future success.
There is very little that is more confidential to a company than its research results because they form the basis of its future success Within the scope of continuous improvement of its IT infrastructure, the polymer research of the BASF has transferred its IT activities to BASF IT Services
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Until now, the polymer research in Ludwigshafen was responsible for its own IT.
Now 18 IT specialists are moving to BASF IT Services.
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A perfectly functioning IT system is also a prerequisite for the certification and accrediting of various quality management systems.
Work, especially in analytics - for instance, registering new products - must be carried out according to that.
Particularly high value is placed on the exact and comprehensive documentation of all the measuring data and processes.
These are checked on a regular basis by public and regulatory authorities.
The task of BASF IT Services is to take over, monitor and further develop software for measuring and analytics according to the customer's requirements, which in part, have been developed by the researchers themselves.
This software runs via more than 600 special computers.
Added to this are the classical infrastructure services for standard computers, server and applications as well as the provision of a network.
This polymer research order is in the value of several million euros and initially scheduled to run for three years.
BASF's polymer research leader, Professor Dr Franz Brandstetter, said: "We have found a competent partner we believe will transact the IT business successfully and long term.
We view ourselves as a system partner, which not only sells a product but also offers a solution." Wolfgang Erny, speaking on behalf of the BASF IT Services board, commented: "We are proud of this partnership and are convinced that both sides will benefit from it as research is able to concentrate on its main tasks and BASF IT Services can expand its portfolio with the objective of marketing it both in and outside of the BASF Group." With the new order from the research sector, BASF IT Services shows that it is also the right address for non-standard IT.
It believes it has proven its know-how with regard to infrastructure in the past years with the PC standardising project.
It has also just installed 31,000 PCs in only 13 months in all the European locations of the BASF, to increase the service capacity of the relevant networks and reorganised the corresponding network services.
The customer profited from significant cost reduction and increased efficiency.
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