IHS Goldfire is software that helps engineers, scientists and researchers to develop, maintain and produce breakthrough products. Powered by world-class semantic search technology, IHS Goldfire transforms internal and external information into actionable innovation intelligence. IHS Goldfire helps organizations identify new markets, develop new products, mitigate risk and drive efficiencies.

1. ACCELERATING DECISIONS.
POWERING INNOVATION.

2. 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
“ “

3. KNOWLEDGE LOSS
IS CRIPPLING TODAY’S INDUSTRY
50%of the engineering
workforce eligible for
retirement in 2015
Source: US Bureau of Labor
Statistics, IEEE, ASME
44%of organizations
have no knowledge
transfer process in
place and no plans
to create one
Source: Training+Development
1-2.5%
of total revenues are lost
due to decreased
productivity resulting
from learning curve for
new hires
Source: Mellon Financial Corp
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4. 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 information
Source: InfoCentric Research
YOU INVEST MILLIONS IN TOOLS FOR YOUR ENGINEERS, YET
THEY STILL CAN’T FIND
THE INFORMATION THEY NEED
13%Increase in engineer’s
time spent searching
for information since
2002.
Source: Outsell

5. Your competition is:
› Solving key design problems
› Innovating new technologies
› Filing new patents
AND WHILE YOU
WASTE TIME & MONEY
TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT ANSWERS …
BEATING YOU
TO MARKET
›

6. WHAT IF YOUR ENGINEERS HAD
THE ANSWERS THEY NEED
AT THEIR FINGERTIPS?
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7. › 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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8. IHS GOLDFIRE
THE DECISION-ENGINE PLATFORM
SEMANTIC
SEARCH ENGINE
INNOVATION
TRENDS 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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9. 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 DOCUMENTS
PLUS KNOWLEDGE INSIDE THE CORPORATION
…and hundreds more
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10. IHS GOLDFIRE
EMPOWERS YOU TO:
› Develop new products faster
› Discover new markets
› Improve production & quality
› Minimize risk
› Boost operational efficiency
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11. › Accelerate idea generation
› Improve idea-to-products conversion rates
› Shorten design cycles & minimized rework
› Avoid potential intellectual property barriers
DEVELOP
NEW 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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12. › Find new markets for current technologies
› Identify unmet needs
› Strategize new market entry
› Discover next-generation technology
trends and opportunities
DISCOVER
NEW 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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13. › 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 by
enabling you to identify the real problem, to
analyze and understand the identified
problem in order to find solutions and to
generate high quality ideas.
- Innovation Project Manager,
billion dollar environmental services company
IMPROVE
PRODUCTION & QUALITY
“ “
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14. › Reduce the liability of product defects
› Better manage supply chain risk
› Know the competitive landscape
› Understand compliance regulations
and 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.
MINIMIZE
RISK
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15. › 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.
BOOST
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
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16. 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
DesignEng.
ProductMgr.
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

17. IHS:
ANSWERS YOU NEED
FROM 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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18. 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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