Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

We are looking for a way to prevent or restrict manufacturing operators from reporting QC operations in Shop Orders. We can restrict this via a Filter in Shop Floor Workbench, but do not see an obvious way to do so in Shop Order. The QC operations are in a separate Department and Work Center. We do not use Team or Employee reporting, we use Anonymous Reporting. Thanks

When setting up the planning structure, I need to enter the component information related to 2 sites (same component). system gives a warning that the qty per assembly is < or> than 1 when I tried to enter record for the second site. However I can ignore and proceed. Is that correct ?

Morning We are using IFS apps 10 and I have been reviewing work centre capacities and have noticed large discrepancies in average capacity and demonstrated capacity but cant understand why?the work centre below is for a welding work centre with an average capacity of 7.15 hr but a demonstrated capacity of 39.6 hr. Available and theoretical capacity are both showing 7.75 hr per day.When reviewing the resource detail the capacity calculation base is set at group with a resource quantity of 5 to reflect the 5 welders working within this work centre (all with the same labour class) and group utilisation at 90% . does any one know the cause of the discrepancy? kind regards Jamie

Hello,Is anyone able to explain exactly how the system calculates the earliest start date when doing the ‘Update ESD According to Material Availability’ function in a shop order?I have read the IFS help page and tried playing around with several examples in our test system, but I’m struggling to understand how it works out the date it chooses.  We are on Apps 10 UPD 8.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks,Steph.

Hi, assume i picked 5 different parts, for a total of 100 pieces (lets say 20 pieces of each inventory part). All with defined measurement. How can I pack these into a handling units during shipment, with IFS telling me how much Handling units I need? If i now do it, using the packing instruction in shipment or using the ‘pack according to handling unit capacity’, I get 5 handling units with each inventory part in one HU (so 20 pcs/HU). However, i would like that IFS fills the the first HU completely, with a mixture of parts, and than goes the second etc. Is that possible?  

I have tried to hide the confirmation dialog for a specific printout. I have not succeded through report rules.Is it possible to hide the dialog box? And automatically send the printout to the printer?In one of our processes, when reporting shop orders in shop floor workbench, we don’t want this box to appear when printing Handling Unit Labels. (it has happened more than once that operators by mistake click cancel and the result is no labels printed on the printer)On IFS 10 upg11

Hello all,I have 3 questions related to APB:I am wondering whether it is possible somehow to setup and/or use functionality of APB in order to fulfill need date everytime (consider need dates as a hard constraint). This can lead to situations when operations of the shop order are scheduled partially to the past. I am expecting that the answer is NO, but I just wanna be sure that I haven’t missed anything. Possibilities of fixing scheduled operations in the schedule - presuming these:fixing based on the shop order operation state - do not schedule the released operations fixing by the time fence given by an offset of hours from now/sysdate - configurable from the basic data anything else?What is the difference between the automatic scheduling of Unscheduled operations and Infinite scheduled operations.Thanks for your advices. Best regards,Zdenek Baumelt

What’s the significance of having the Print UoM same as the Inventory UoM? Is it mandatory all the time for all the parts? If not, what type of parts should have this? Only its reflected on reports like Picklist?  By the way we don’t use IFS Engineering module, so the field Print UoM in the IFS window ‘Receipe Structure’ is out of question

Does anyone have a quick guide what to check when the Eng Rev is not filled on the Purchase Order? 

When I compare APP9 and APP10 there is a difference in shop order picklist. This is good. However, there are customers who use summary report which is not available in APP10. This is important for customer who use same part in product structures multiple times and they can consolidate. Also Line Item number not exist in the detail report. Behavior in APP9:Report consists of 03 pages.Cover Page Detail Page Summary Page (This is not available in APP10) 

Hi Everyone,Apologies if I’ve posted this on the wrong page - Is there some training video’s on the MRB module I could take a look at? I’ve tried looking through gotostage and the community page but can’t find anything. We are currently on IFS9 and are looking to roll out the MRB module. I was hoping to find some user documentation on this to go through a few examples. Is there any available to look at?Many Thanks,Dan

So what is the IFS design for communicating the Shop Order reserved serial numbers to the manufacturing floor (they only use IFS Shop Floor Workbench, no logins?)   We’ve looked at the Shop Order report and the Shop Order Work Instruction report; nothing.  Our actual issue is how do we communicate the Shop Order reserved serial numbers to the outside service operation vendor.  But at this point, that would be a bonus….  Ideas?

Hello, I am curious as to whether or not it is possible to disable the Close Operation flag on the Approve Operation dialogue box on Shop Floor Workbench? Often times we have Shop Orders where we produce more than the remaining qty. The issue this presents is that if an operator forgets to uncheck the flag, the Operation line will close and no longer be visible on their Workbench. At this point, someone in our scheduling department has to reopen the operation so they can continue reporting pieces. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Hiin our company we have IFS9; and I need to check the accounting cycle.could you please provide any reference to check the accounting cycle ?

It has just been reported that a lot_batch_no has been e ntered incorrectly for 1 order.   Is is possible to amend the lot_batch_no. I don’t believe it is possible as material transactions exit but thought I would ask.

When initiating MWO Service, it loops with the message “waiting for server”. Stay like that for ages.When have a look in IFS  Solution manager \ aurena native app \ administration \ installed app services the status is “init waiting for GP.” The url used is : https://ifspsd1-d01.demo.ifs.cloud/The user : ALDEFRThe password : ALdefr-2021*Thanks for your support

Can I download the business equipment Tree View out of IFS to Excel.So only the Hierarchy details.PlantUnitSub UnitEquipmentSpare>\?  

Hi all,We have supply for given parts which MRP has not merged into a single requisition. Despite the requirement being within a similar if not identical date. These parts also have an Order Cover Time of 30 days (& Planning Method set to G). We are currently using pMRP. Is the use of this, specifically separate Project ID’s, forcing the netting process to supply lot-for-lot?For instance, we’ve got 3 finished goods to be made. Each loaded in a separate project. The gross requirements are the same. The independent demand (when Due) is the same. Yet the supply, in the form of various shop and purchase reqs are not merged. Why?Any thoughts? 

Hello!We use APPS9. We installed an update for HR some days ago. After some calendar were in the status “ChangesPending”. At night, I started with the RMT functionality “Generate Calendar” a background job. They ended successfully. After this action the dates “Planned Delivery Date” and “Planned Ship Date” in the mask “customer order” were changed automatically for the order lines which were in the status  “Reserved, Released and Partially Delivered” - but the calculation is not correct, it calculated like this: The Date on which I generated the calendar plus the reprocurement time of the part, e.g.14 days to produce the part: In the mask “Order Line History” is the follwing entry: “Planned delivery date was changed from 2021-03-31 to 2021-04-20”. The previous planned delivery date has been communicated to the customer, it can’t be shipped some weeks later. It also can’t be produced later.Does anyone know if this is a bug? Is there a possibility to reverse the automatically changed dat

Hello Community,We are migrating engineering part information into an existing implementation and have a need to create separate engineering part structures and hierarchies that utilize the same components.  For instance, Parts A and B may both utilize Part C as a child component, but the Part B hierarchy would have further children parts that Part A would not have.  What we do not want is when looking at the structure and hierarchy for Part A, to see the child components related to Part B.  Further, we do not want modifications made to a parent/child to affect the structure of another part. Is this supported in Apps10, and if so, is there a recommended practice to implement this?  Looking at the engineering part structure data, it seems like this may be possible by delineating a structure ID, but I can’t find how to set that on the front end or through the migration documentation.    

Hi Team, I was working on Service management work order in IFS Apps 10 UPD 10.  I found that whenever I try to create invoice for my service order it shows me this error in the background job.  I am not able to create invoice because of this error. Is it a bug ? Please let me know. Thank you.  

Please help It’s very urgent Has anyone ever gotten this message?   Thanks for yours answers quick  I have a workshop with the client this afternoon BR Christèle

Hello,We are just starting to use manufacturing tools and I’ve managed to get our inspection gauges (job specific) into here too. I have seen that you can state when last calibrated and the interval time and this calculates when it next requires calibration. However I can not see any standard functionality in Apps9 to see who calibrates and how to see when calibrations are required apart from going into each record. Am I missing something or will I need to do some customization with reports and custom fields for supplier of calibration? Or is it simpler to link to a serial object and use the service and maintenance module to do this?Thanks for any input here, much appreciated. 

Has anyone been able to come up with a solution in the core system to switch ownership of material from Company Owned to Customer Owned and back again? At the moment we’re looking at a potential modification or perhaps a complex custom event that will generate and receipt the PO for us, just reaching out in case there’s something we’re missing here as an option. This is for lot batch tracked materials in inventory to be used in shop orders.

Please provide an example a description of the usual data flow in ETO and project delivery.Is it going like this?: 1. step: Modul Product Estimate Management - assembly (preliminary) of the part peak including phantom items.2. step: CAD & PDM: ENGINEERING BOM including phantom items.3. step: MANUFACTURING BOM including phantom items whith and production times.4. step: Project Management: Automatic creation of the project structure (WBS) of the product. And project planning..5. step: Make manufactoring order: From the structure of the pre-production phase (only for part - with the status approved for production).  Thank you!