Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hello,When using the Component Scrap function from Shop Floor workbench, we have two options. Report Component scrap of Non-Issued Material - IFS allows us to do this only when a component has not been issued at all to the shop order. Report Component scrap of Issued Material - IFS allows us to do this only when there has been some quantity of the component part number issued to the shop order. This becomes an issue in the following situation: We have a shop order that consumes, through backflushing, 100 pcs of component part number “123”. We report 50 good pieces of the assembly, which backflushes 50 pcs of component part number 123. The 51’st piece of part number 123 is bad. We want to do a component scrap of non-issued material, but since material has already been issued to this shop order, the system will not let us do it. What is the best way to report scrap of this 1 component piece? Th

A customer raised the following concern in Application 10:“Earliest Unlimited Supply Date” used for Purchase Parts, applied/functioning for Manufactured parts. What is the feature in the application which handles “Earliest Unlimited Supply Date” but for manufactured parts?We must be able to visualize short-term disturbances i.e. prolonged lead times for manufactured parts, more or less the same idea/logic as for Purchased parts.Example/scenario:The standard lead time is 10d for manufacture. part X.When the production planned to finalize the production schedule it outlines that the shop order (best possible) is planned to be finished on day 15 = true lead time is 15d as the SO can’t be improved.Standard lead time could not be kept/respected. At this point, the production planner must be able to indicate a prolonged lead time -> update the “EUSD” (if that was doable) acc. to the scheduled SO to show the current plannable lead time for new d

Estimate Bid Management does not currently work with Recipes only Product Structures. Is this a limitation or can we implement this?

A customer is in need to update routings in mass when they are associated to a template. They have tried to update the routings using an EFA but that has broken the link to the template. This customer has many routing templates and routings to update and want to know what the easier methods are and whether there are any tools to get this done easily. I appreciate your opinions on this matter so that I can provide the better options to the customer to fulfill their request. Thank you.

Hi  I would like to export the project gnatt chart from IFS Apps 9 into Microsoft excel and modify certain details in this chart before sending to a customer. I have downloaded the add on’s from the add on screen in IFS but I am unsure of the next steps. Can anyone provide further information? ThanksJohn

Hi i am using App 10 and would like can you have more than one default location connected to one inventory part?currently we have one location connected to teh inventory part so when goods in recieves the part into stock it will automatically suggest the default location (which is our paint store), but when we want to move inventory from the paint store to a shop floor location in the ‘Move inventory part’ window it automatically suggests the default location GSPS46. I want the system to show the storemen the other location the part can be moved to rather than them having to manually input the desired location number 18044.Is this possible?regardsJamie

Hi, once there is an upgrade of IFS applications, are there any instructions to upgrade BA reports that a customer should follow? (for an eg: Using BR report upgrade utility, report validation etc.) A customer has been upgraded from Apps8 to Apps10 UPD8 and having lots of errors in their reports. When the reports are validated, validation fails. But it does not show what the reason for validation fail. Do we need to do client debugging to identify the cause?

Hi IFS champions! We want to capture hours spent making tooling for our production process. We have explored using Work Orders, Shop Orders but both have their pitfalls as well as benefits.Ideally, need to capture time spent (real-time or retrospectively) against each Tooling item manufactured. Needs to be a simple process as these colleagues are not IT literate!We are not currently doing anything with tooling, apart from creating them in IFS and attaching them to the Shop Order for manufacturing.Any thoughts?  n.b. we are on IFS2003 :(

What I did,Created a Cost Source Connect the Cost Source to Work Center at Cost Details Basic Data Created posting control M41 and connect it with Control Type C90 At Posting Control Detail connect Cost Source to an Account. What I expect;Once I report machine time, I expect the cost goes to the relevant GL Account based on the above mapping using Cost Source and WorkCentre. Am I doing the correct thing? Is C90 meant to be use like above? If not how can I use C90?

Can we create and use custom menus for Shop Order Window> Visualization views (eg: Shop order materials line availability visualization) in IFS Application IEE client?

Why is the Gantt removed as a tab from the Project Navigator screen in Apps10 as compared to Apps8? It is a separate screen now but few of the MRO customers stated that they preferred to view it in a tab. Could you please let me know why?

Assume a manufactured inventory part with a purchased part in product structure with routing operation work guidelines where we connect an attachment via the Object Connection Transformations window.(which adds the document to the work guideline as a link)On Shop Order window, when we RMB>Reports>click Work Instruction…Check box Print Attached Documents> ticked, Work Instruction is printed for Shop Order, but Attached Document is not.

Hi,Wondering whether the barcode device could be used for scanning Op ID (barcodes on shop order work instruction). This barcode device is already configured for IFS WADACO already.Thank you.ZR 

Hi Everyone,Could anyone please confirm when have created a forecast on 31st of this month and it is in PTF. After running MS-Part 1 system has created the supply on 31st which is getting balanced with the same quantity of customer order but I want to understand why system has created one more line on 1st of the next month. Refer ss attached.I want to understand the logic or business requirement for this. Thanks in advance.

Upgrading from IFS8 to IFS10 UPD9. User see following error in IFS10 when try to use the function ‘Copy costs to cost set one’. IFSAPP can perform the task successfully.Can someone please help me what settings i am missing in this scenario for the user to perform his job. Looks like i need to register this task somewhere but i have no clue what to do and where. 

Hi,For one of our user reset current view does not work corect.When the user try to Reset Current View or Reload Configuration it will not set the same settings as base profile that the user is connected to, Do anyone have some suggestion on how to solve it? It is working for other users that are connected to the same base profile./Magnus

Hi Everyone,We are currently in the process of reviewing the Material Review Board module on IFS9.Was just wondering what the benefits of the MRB module are? And how anyone else has successfully enforced the module within their company. Are there any training document that we could use within a test environment?Many Thanks  

Dear all, very simple question. I would like to reflect the already reported time on the operation in APB. It works when the Adjust functions are applied (prioritize already reaported, preserve the sequence of the already scheduled), otherwise APB is showing entire lead time of operations. I do not like to use any Adjust functions, sice bot are applied to all operations which is not requested. Is it any way how to do it?Note: IFS 7.5, version of APB 2.6.1.0. I tried to find any LCS solution/bug, maybe I missed the appropriate fix. Thanks for any advice. Best regards,Zdenek B. 

For a shop order with material completely issued, when the materials are unissued to a different location, UNISS transaction is created to the original issued location and not to the location to Unissued which is selected above. System does not directly transfer the materials to the selected un-issue location without having internal transfer transactions.1. What is the business value of these internal transactions?2. Here, two transactions are created even without the Shop Order reference. It looks like the material movement has been done within two locations which has not actually happened in the business.  How to explain this behavior from business perspective? 

morning can any help shed some light or even a guiding principles in what direction to set (backwards or forwards) when scheduling shop orders ?I understand how each schedule direction effects the start and end date  but am unsure of when to use either direction.currently we use backwards scheduling for all shop order but we have an arrear of shop order going 4 months into the past.To me logic says forwards scheduling because you can not start a shop order in the past so why plan it in the past, but i could be wrong.Appreciate any help/ advice or opinion on this topicregardsJamie

Hi  we are using Apps 10 and have recently connected the material to the operation but have had issues with shop floor operator inputting an extra digit and over issuing material (in this instance it was paint) to the operation.is there away you can prevent this or even better set a tolerance of allowable over issuing for example a maximum of 10% of the required usage can be over reported?regardsJamie

Hi I am using IFS Apps 10 and trying to pre-define were material is reserved and issued from. On the product structure i have set the ‘Reserve/ Issue Method’ to reserve and Backflush but this reserves material from any available location. Am i correct in thinking for it automatically reserve material from a predefined location I need to input the location in the ‘Reserve/ Issue from Location’ tab?If this is correct would I also need to define the ‘Default Location’ on the component inventory part as the same location so when the component material is received into stock it will automatically suggest locating the material into its default location? kind regardsJamie 

Hello I have recently noticed that our IFS Apps 10 is scheduling operation out of sequence, as below op 30 ‘Inspect and NDT to checklist’ has a planned op start date of 30/04/2021 which is 3 days before op 10 ‘Tack’ up is planned to start 05/05/2021. I have looked at the routing below for the part and can not see anything that jumps out as being out of the ordinary and the operations are in the correct sequence. both work centres are set up using Finite capacity, utilisation set at 100% and concurrent operations set to ‘Allowed -group start in sequence’

Hi, In APB, I would like to set that that Shop order B cannot start before shop order A. This for the simple reason that Shop Order A produces material needed in shop order B. It’s al fine with the need dates, but as soon as we start rescheduling, the system does not alert us if we schedule shop order B before A. Also, the system will do it himself if we let him schedule. Can this be avoided? Best regards

Hi,We have recently added a second shift and I am trying to schedule shop orders for both shifts, however I have only been able to get APB to schedule orders on the morning shift.Steps I have taken:New calendars created for morning shift (6am - 2pm), afternoon shift (2pm - 10pm) and entire day (6am - 10pmWork centre and applicable labour class linked to entire day calendarEmployees individually assigned morning or afternoon shift calendars I am sure I am missing something simple, hopefully somebody in here can spot it :)