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What is IFS EAM?

What IFS enterprise asset management does, who uses it and the jobs it creates. Updated 10 October 2026.

Short answer. IFS EAM is the enterprise asset management part of IFS Cloud. Companies use it to plan and carry out maintenance on physical assets such as plants, fleets, power networks and aircraft, and to manage spare parts, work orders and asset history.

What it does

  • Preventive and corrective maintenance planning
  • Work orders and mobile work execution
  • Spare parts and inventory for maintenance
  • Asset structures, history and performance

Who uses it

Asset-heavy organisations: energy and utilities, manufacturing, mining, transport and defence. Aviation maintenance has its own IFS products alongside it.

Jobs

EAM consultants usually come from maintenance or reliability engineering. There are 9 IFS EAM and maintenance jobs on the board today.

Questions people ask

Is IFS EAM a separate product from IFS Cloud?

It is a capability within IFS Cloud. Customers can run EAM alone or together with ERP and service management.

What background suits an IFS EAM consultant?

Maintenance planning, reliability engineering or asset management, plus experience of a maintenance system.

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