Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi,What is the user case behind the Start Downtime and Stop Downtime functionality in Shop Floor Workbench?If I Start Downtime on an ongoing operation, why only the machine time clocking stop and labor keep on clocking? Why not Stop Production?  Is it wrong practice to use Start Downtime on an ongoing operation, instead of Interrupt the operation?Cheers

We recognize revenue based on our IFS customer projects we set up. Is there a way to link multiple customer projects to an IFS contract so we can easily compile all the projects information related to one contract?  

We are trying to close out a project but we get the message that there is some work that remains to be completed.  When we go to the Unfinished Activity Work window the message reads,‘There is at least one Project Transaction which has not been completely invoiced or where Multi-Company Reporting Revenue voucher has not been created.’How do we resolve this issue?  The project has transactions from back in like 2006, 2007, 2008 so invoicing is not an option.  We just want to close this project.  

Hello, @Cjoslin  Have you by any chance encountered something like this?  This is a question from LCL: We are using IFS Apps 10, UPD9.  We have encountered an error and wonder if anyone has a suggestion for working around it that doesn’t involve creating a separate part number.  To build part A -  I need part B & CTo build part C – I need A & B End Item :           PN (2472505)  92B-28; 92B-28 HIGH PRESSURE PILOT  25-75 PSIG SPRING RANGE  .  PILOTE A HAUTE PRESSION,  GAMME DE PRESSION 25-75 PSIG Component :     PN (2472031)  92B-1.5-NPT-CI-SST-92B-5@15psig (92B-75)   PN (2471990)   92B-1.5-NPT-CI-SST-92B-25@75psig (92B-78)  End ITEM: PN (2471990) - 92B-1.5-NPT-CI-SST-92B-25@75psig (92B-78) Component:      PN (2472031) 92B-1.5-NPT-CI-SST-92B-5@15psig (92B-75)PN (2472505) 92B-28; 92B-28 HIGH PRESSURE PILOT  25-75 PSIG SPRING RANGE  .  PILOTE A HAUTE PRESSION,  GAMME DE PRESSION 25-75 PSIG   Thank you,Joann

Hi everybody!We are having trouble with finding a solution for internal transports within production. We want to notify the dedicated forklift driver when a WIP is ready to be transported from a work center to another within IFS. We were not able to solve the issue with ‘transport task’ because it’s a WIP.  The forklift is equipped with a IFS computer so we also considered using ’quick report’ to form a list that shows all work centers and their current status, but this solution also has its problems.Does anyone have a suggestion to this problem? All help is appreciated!Charles

Hi, How can we see in the easiest way if we can manage customer order lines with a steady output of a shop order? Let’s say we have a big shop order over several months of 200.000 pieces, producing 100 pieces /day. We have several costumer order lines, each week wanting 400 pieces for example.As we produce 100 pieces a day, it should not be a problem to deliver these costumer order lines. However, in the Inventory Part Availabilty overview screen, we only see the projected stock at the end date of the shop order. So all the costumer lines go in negative projected inventory untill we actually do the reporting, so it doesn’t tell ‘if everything goes according to plan, these customer order lines will be ok in the future’ How can we see that with the current planning, we will be able to deliver (or not)?  

Is there a way to refresh the “Part Description” field to the value that comes in when you first add a part other than changing the part number, and then changing it back?   

Greetings to all! :) To include the Cost from the OutsideOperationItem (purchased part) used for Outside Operation we must manually enter a value in the column "unit cost" in the  view Outside Operation Cost.   When it is not entered in the view Outside Operation Cost - it is not included in the Part Cost Calculation for the Main Part where the Outside Operation ITEM is included in the routing.   We have the cost for this Outside Operation item in the Purchase Part (Supplier for Purchase Part),    Why do we have to enter the value again in outside operation cost? Can this be automized?Event?Or is some basic data/connection in the costing missing?     Thank you in advance, /F   

Hello,  I need to find a way to view when a Aurena screen change was published.  We have a screen that has gotten some configuration stuck and will not save without error’s.  Would like to track down a way to see publish actions that have taken place on that screen to try and see what caused this and possibly rollback to that timeframe. Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to get a list of products that will expire before they are used or sold based on the current forecasted demand? We produce fresh food products and juices, both the ingredients and finished goods have relatively short shelf life. We would like to be able to see what items we are long on so that we can take actions to either sell or donate them instead of purging the products. We are on Apps 10 update 5

I need to filer the data from login person’s person id. I create PERSON_ID column in data source and try it in data element.This is a counter, but  it’s passing null value for the parameter.  How can I fix this issue or can I used global parameter(‘#PERSON_ID#’) for the url?

Does anyone have any experience of applying a material overhead cost per batch for Shop Order/Part costs?We want to apply the cost of using an adhesive to stick components together,  for different parent parts have a different adhesive and hence cost.I’ve tried using Part Specific Overheads but although I can create the cost element, I can’t get IFS to recognise it on the drop down when I try adding it.There be something basic I am doing wrong - any ideas?

Is there documentation related to RRP (Resource Requirement Planning) and CRP(Capacity Requirement Planning) in IFS APP 10? Would like to understand its functionality.  Please advise. Thanks in advance.

In apps8, is there a way to customize the display (like column chooser) of change request from the attachments in the context pane.My need is to add the CO status after the CR status because the last status of the CR is “processed” but that does not mean that the CO is completed. And similarly, can we add the checkbox “action completed” in the change action from the attachments in the context pane in order to allow the user to complete his action without right-clicking on the action line and navigate to the change order actions. Thanks for your helpCarole

When Navigating Project Navigator > one of the activity > demand tab > misc partsI am unable to see all the available columns of it.Even though all the visible columns are on the list unable to see all of them together. it’s having morecursor is at the end of it but it’s having more columns. Also, the cursor is harder to differentiate from the main cursor, it has to be the same as the parent cursor but it’s not.  All of them fall under customization. parent form does not have any issues but the child form does.While searching through noticed the below type of behavior on the client end. these columns do not have any pre-coded values or methods on them, they were hidden from the scratchAppreciate any suggestions to overcome these two issues in this window. 

In the shop order window there are negative pegged values available in a shop order. Any thoughts on how this might have happened and how to resolve it?Appreciate your ideas regarding this .

I am using Contexts in Aurena and using Context mapping by user groups (all working well in UPD10) HOWEVER what I would like to know is does anyone know how to duplicate a context.   Reason being - I have created a context for Frontline but I have 3 user groups that need to use this context and context mapping will not allow me to assign more then one user group (unless I’m doing that wrong as well) and I don’t want to have to do all the page updates in each new context. Hope this makes sense and somebody has an answer.  :-)

Hi Team, I created service request from customer order type SEO but I cannot see ‘Customer Owned’ object id connected to service request. It shows me an error:I want service request to automatically pop up the customer owned service object. Setup:My object id is customer owned and connected with respective customerCustomer order type is SEOCreate SM object checkbox is enabled on the customer order line 

Is there an option within IFS Business Reporter to display design rows/ columns even when there are null values when the report is run? For example, our current BR reports will not display rows/ columns where the GL Balance amount is zero. The report only will shows those columns and rows where GL Balance data is not null. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

In standard IFS 10 Functionality of Copy project, I use source project with a Delivery project and have defined a site as well. However, if my destination project does not have a site defined, I cannot proceed.Why default site is not fetching here? If I select copy Delivery Project, you will ended up with following error. To correct this, I have move back to the previous and select the source project site from the list or move out and define a site and redo the same process.This is not a user friendly behaviour and expect default site to be fetch by default. Any standard patch available? Please note this can be recreated only if you select Copy Delivery project in step  2/4. It is because site is mandatory for delivery project. BR,Thushan.

I’m really struggling with the Project Forecast functionality and the matching When I create my forecast I have a new line in it (highlighted) which is not connected to an ActivityWhen I manually add the sub project ID and Activity ID and try and save I get an error messageI do have a snapshot connected but when I disconnect it I lose all the values in the other linesAny advice on what the warning symbol is and how I add the new line to the forecast ?Thank you

When there is a multi-company invoice set up, Is it possible to attach the project invoice to the supplier invoice which has generated in the other company? Customer is having such a requirement since project invoice is will not be visible in Aurena and they compel to jump between different entities to gather the invoice information. The checkbox is only editable when using E-INVOICE media code. (not available for MHS code) However, the customer requirement is “MHS” media code which is not available.(After the document is saved in the same document class of that of the company.) Is there another way or even a workaround for this process?

In MRO interim order structure, when you RMB on a level of the tree navigator and go to Automatic Disassembly, you have the option 'Include Sub Levels'. This is automatically checked. I do understand it's being automatically checked when you RMB from the header, but when you do so from the navigator I believe it shouldn't be checked automatically as we want to disassemble the MRO SO interdependently

Hi  Attached is an example of unexpected results in apb.Shop order 903 is the parent shop order 1000 Disc and spindle is the child wanted for operation 10 of 903Both parts are finiteResult from APB puts shop order 903 finish date ahead 1000, This is a physical impossibilityWhat do we need to do to make sure the parent SO uses the child part for its planning?Thanks

We are looking to Batch create customer invoices and would like to know what this checkbox does.  The IFS help describes it this way:   Invoice Unconnected Charges Separately This checkbox indicates if unconnected customer order charges can be invoiced separately. If selected, it is possible to create a customer order invoice for a customer order charge that is no connected to a customer order line, before there is any delivery against the customer order or when there are no approved stage billing lines. If delivery confirmation is used, unconnected charge can be invoiced before any quantity gets a confirmation on delivery. If not selected, it is possible to invoice unconnected charge only with a delivery or an approved stage billing line. When delivery confirmation is used, there should be at least some quantity confirmed for the unconnected charge to be invoiced. The value of this check box is editable and will be inherited to the dialog boxes used to batch create customer order in