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Hello, has anyone had to deal with this problem? We have lots of different parts that use the same raw material and are all manufactured using the same machine. To make an efficient process, we would like to “batch” all the shop orders that use a specific component so we can make those parts in one hit. Then “batch” another set of shop orders that use a different raw material and make those. These manufactured parts are then used to make another assembly.

OP Blocks doesnt seem to fit this scenario as we are not wanting to batch operations but batch at the shop order level.

And because we making a large qty of the parts that use the raw material, we would prefer to book labor at the batch level not on each individual shop order and let IFS apportion the labor across all the shop orders in that batch.

Grateful for any comments, etc. Thanks in advance. This is being done in Cloud.

@Manxmano This sounds like a Repetitive Manufacturing process.

Did you consider Production Line/ Schedule approach for this requirement?


@Manxmano I think Operation Block is the best option. On the work center for the relevant machine, connect all operations that should be batched together in a block. If you want help to identify the operations for the parts that are using the same raw material you can mirror the material as a characteristic as well.

In Shop Floor Workbench you can enter/scan the Operation Block ID which will populate all operations belonging to that block, and select/start all of them together. Then the total labor will be distributed among the operations. You can choose by work center to split the labor by time or by crew size/resource share depending on if the operations are processed all at the same time in the machine, or one after another.  


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