Assets (Asset Management)

Is there a way to connect a FUNCTIONAL OBJECT and tool/equipment without it being a serialized part? Business case - customer has company-owned thermal chambers (in functional object structure) that are used for testing of customer-owned part assemblies. when work order is raised against the assembly, they want to "check out" the tool for use on the task, and track when/what chamber was used for. They also need to perform PMs against the chamber itself to make sure it is calibrated, functioning as expected. Seems like the only way to connect the two is if it is a serialized object. For major tools like the thermal chambers, we wish to have them in the equipment structure (Equipment Object Navigator) but do not want to go through the additional steps of having to set them up as Master PartsPer IFS Documentation, "It may be assets defined with a part number and or lot/serial numbers. It may also be assets defined directly in the asset register without a part number. In those cases the As

Dear community, I wonder if the following is possible? any ideas would be great. Create PR and Convert to PO for non-part line Create WO on serial object Connect PO created in Step 1 to Work Order so costs can be captured on the Work Order?I know you can peg the Material Req demand to existing PO “manual pegging” but this is for non-inventory part or non part coded items. Any help would be great. Thanks.David 

Once an inventoried material is added to either Serial Object or Functional Object under the Spare Parts tab, how do you then select that material when you are in a Work Order under the Materials tab?

Customer is on 23R1 and Event ID “PCM_CALENDAR_GENERATION” (Entity = PmCalendarPlan) is not available. We’ve looked in several customer environments and demo environments and the event seems to ONLY be in demo environments. Has this been deprecated?  

Hi, The customer requested to introduce a client script error-handling function for the FSM application. It allows them to attempt to execute code (the try block) and catch any exceptions (errors) that occur (in the catch block), preventing the application from crashing.  Could you please check the above-mentioned enhancement request and try to include this feature in the future UPD version of the FSM application? Thank You.

Hi IFS Guru,I have a scenario where I need to create Automatic Generation of PM WO through Calendar but for specific Object IDs, as our plant is in commissioning stage, we have created PM actions for all the equipment but in preliminary status, some of equipment handed over to Operations and PM Action is in active status, now we need to implement Auto Generation (Avoid going manually to each PM action and click Generate WO) system should be able to create PM WOs (as a background) based on interval for specific Object IDS (that is very important). System should not generate PM WO for all the Object ID even if it is in Active Status. We are using IFS Cloud Web version: 22.2.8.20230509084539.0.Appreciate your help on this matter. Shehzad

The topic PM Condition based, due date calculation is closed but I have a contribution.I had already researched this subject and realized that there is a lot of misinformation here in the community. Another customer asked again and I found the file below. It doesn't detail the calculation but defines the main concepts involved.This is my contribution to this topic and I hope it helps others. 

Hi All, Anyone know on how to change default date format on IFS Cloud. Because the date format is not the same with PC local date format, causing confusion when reading date 03/01/2024 is 3rd January or 1st March of 2024. Have been looking around for solution, but found no answer.  Thanks.

Hi All,When work tasks are generated by calendar generation based on a PM group, the description of the PM group is updated as the work task description. But our requirement is that the definition of the Task Template ID of the PM action should be updated as the Work Task Description. Is there a facility in the system to change this setup?

Is there a background job or property setting that will automatically set a Work Task's Status to FINISH when: all its Assignments are COMPLETE or CANCELLED and  all its Costs are either AUTHORIZED or TRANSFERRED?Thank you,

When calculating the actual worked hours in the Work Assignment window, it calculates as 'assignment finished - work start.' Is it possible to know if there is any specific reason for using this? 

When I try to preview my report using Order Report Designer, I get the following error message.  How to resolve this issue. 

Hi. I am looking for confirmation that when an RMA is created for a Rental Return in IFS Cloud, that it cannot be returned to a different Site and that this is not something that can be changed? When changing the Return to Site in the RMA Header, this can be changed, but not when the RMA contains rental lines?  

Hi All, I have a question on connecting my Functional Object to a Technical Class (and Attributes). I did following:Created a Technical Class Created Technical Attributes (Numeric and Alphanumeric) Created Technical Class Template and connecting various Technical Atributes to the Class Template, and including ‘Attribute Values’ to the Alphanumeric AttributesCreated an Object Type Connected a Technical Class to my Object Specified the correct values for my Technical Attributes connected to the Object Type Approved my Technical Class for the Object TypeNavigate to Functional Object Add Object Type to my Functional Object This populated the tab ‘Requirements’ with the attributes from the Technical Class connected to the object type But…..Why are the values I specified on the Object Type not copied to the Functional Object? Shouldn’t this be populated as well? Maybe I am not understanding the functionality correct but I would assume the Technical Attributes of the Object Type Technical Cla

Hey there, I wrote a data mapper which was returning hundreds of thousands of records inadvertently and hanging up ETM. I close ETM but the process still runs in the background and completely bogs down the server. Is there a way to kill this process? Will the standard Task Manager kill do the trick?For some reason, in our instance, I’m told that ETM must be reinstalled every time this happens. Thanks!T

Hello,We are looking for a way to easily identify Material Reservations to a Work Task. Is there a column selection that can be brought in when using Work Tasks list view? I envisage something like the Active Work Assignments column with a check box or even a traffic light system with green for available or red for not available. I understand we can see the reservations through the MMRL page but just looking for a quick reference. Thank you 

Can we add a custom field for a virtual page (Add Transport Task ) in the MWO through Configuration in IFS Cloud.Navigation: Move stock>Add Transport Task 

Is there a way to alert the user in MWO that the reading is below the previous? (now it only marks it as preliminary in cloud)  

Hi All,Can anyone clarify the reason why the application is allowing to report time for a task before the Earliest Start Date of the Work Order ?Thanks  

Hello , I don’t see the Demo Exercises with the material for Asset Management - Preventative Maintenance. It would be helpful when following along to read the material. We had some in the 1st Training for Day 1 and 2.  Please provide Session 2 the Day 1 and 2 Practice Demo Handouts. In addition, if it is not provided for the 3rd Training, it would be helpful to send or let me know where they can be found. Thank you

Hello, we have four object transactions that have the status "Externally Created" and when we go to Add Investment - Progress, there are no transactions to activate. Does this mean that they are not activated? How do we get them to become Ready as the rest?The transactions are from January and were only discovered now, but it has worked well with the remaining transactions after January.

I've recorded and edited an one on one session with permission from Lamont May who recently started with IFS and will be doing EAM training. If you follow this session, you should be able to set up EAM for a US company. It begins with thirty minutes of set up on the site, users, resources, and parts, then it goes into setting up equipment structure and objects for fifteen minutes (including technical characteristics which isn't really introductory training but is frequently asked about but ignored), then closes with setting up task templates and a generic PM Program for a piece of equipment.I did notice I grabbed the wrong calendar on the site set up that needs generated in the database I was training from, so I suggest using the calendar labeled "5" which at this time comes out generated when delivered in RACE.I guarantee you will learn more watching and trying to follow along with this video for just over an hour than you can learn anywhere else on how to get started in EAM in IFS Cl

Attached is a procedure for creating PM Programs using task templates. One thing that tripped me up was having to do a revision on the generated PM Actions if it was necessary to update the Start Value. Other than that and not trying to add Grouped & Merged into the mix, PM Programs function pretty well. I suggest not trying to use the PM Replacement functionality on a PM Program, but let the system generate multiple work tasks when they align.Please let me know if this is helpful as well as if you see any errors or omissions or anything I need to clarify. 

Hi,I am working for a customer who is upgrading from IFS9 to IFS Cloud.What I want to achieve is to get the Map Position set on the Work Order and to forward this to the Work Task. So I tried that but the Work Task does not inherit the Map Position. I have tried multiple settings in the Object Transformations.These are the settings I used (first only with JtTask and ActiveSeparate and later with WorkOrder) Can someone tell me what needs to happen to achieve what I want?  

Hi IFS Guru, I am trying to down load the list of WOs through Active Work Order ( Maintenance>Work Management>Preparation and Planning>Active Work Order) in Excel format, all the tables was downloaded except the Object Description is not get downloaded in Excel, it is showing on the screen in the same column as “ Object and their description) but when downloaded in excel only Object ID is downloaded, even in the Column Chooser option Object Description field is not available, is there any way around to get this downloaded from Active Work Order.Object Description is important for us for the scheduling purpose otherwise we would have to download from Functional Object and match it with the list from Active Work Order, which is not a practical solution. We are using IFS Cloud Web version: 22.2.8.20230509084539.0. Appreciate your help on this ! Regards Shez