Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

When we do an MTR is there a way to set the UOM to 100 for a particular part number? Right now we have some items in packs of a 100 and if someone wants 99 we really need to just pull 100 regardless since they are small items in bulk packs? We can’t seem to find a place to do this, anyone? We are currently in Apps 8 moving to 10 at some point. thank you!

Hi, I have 3 questions on Element Designer.   In the Element Designer, there is a Form Mapping section. I would like to know how to use it. I found an example in the Bar chart ‘Vacancies Progress’ which is mapped to ‘frmTabHeadCountPlan.  But in the Head Count form, I have not found anything related to this lobby element… In the Navigation section, I would like to have information on the ‘Use own process’ checkbox and its Process id. In a Bar chart, in the Data section, what exactly is the ‘Transpose data’ checkbox for ? Thanks   Michel

In Product Estimate Management, user can register new parts (Component Type) and can transfer with following options.Is it possible to have an option to create Engineering parts in PDM? 

We have a request for implementing an interface between TeamCenter, the PLM system of Siemens with IFS10. Do you have it up and running or have you looked at it. I don’t need full specs here, more a sense of how difficult it would be to prepare such an interface or that it can be bought from a partner or Siemens. Thanks in advance.

Hi,We are using planning method K (Blow through planning) frequently,  Sometimes the demand of the K-planned parts appears in Inventory Part Availability planning, producing alarms that we have a “Negative Projected Onhand”. Anyone who knows why?

When creating new Engineering Revisions, we need to copy the related spare parts in the same process. If not we will miss them as our structures are too complex. Example as follows. This is applicable for Copy Services also and there is no option to copy spare parts.Do we have any solid solution other than copy/paste objects. 

Hi,Is it possible to have more than one rule using the conditional formatting? 

Hi, I am very interested in how to control access to restricted documents in IFS, particularly ITAR. We are on IFS Version 10, UPD7 and use Active Directory Federation Services to connect users to their Active Directory accounts for login.  We have multiple companies and sites across a number of countries.   I am quite familiar with Document Access and Document Class Management using assigned person groups. However, the loophole is that a Document Control rep at one of our sites with access to Document Basic Data can inadvertently add a unauthorized person to a person group that is assigned to a restricted Document Class. I am also interested in the best approach in terms of the Doc Vault. We presently use Shared Files. Storing document files in the database is not feasible given the impact to system performance with the volume of documents in use across all of our sites. We are at the point of removing the restricted documents completely, storing the files in site specific file ser

When scheduling a block of shop order operations in sequence, what logic is used to determine the sequence in which the operations are scheduled? Is the final sequence based on prioritization by Order Need Date, Operation Finish Date, Remaining Resource Hours, something else? 

Hi, Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to generate a Project pick list - this would specifically cover items on the “Demand” tab of a Project activity. I’m hoping there’s something core in the application that work’s similar to the Report Picking of Shop Order Picklist functionality but struggling to find anything obvious in the application.Thanks,Andy

Hello, We are currently not using IFS part configurator and part serialization. We tried to teach ourselves in our test environment but haven’t been successful. Does anyone have a recommendation to get started with part configurator and serializing those parts? Thank you! 

Currently all of our raw material and finished parts use gallons as their UoM.  However given a change in our process, we have a need to reflect some of our raw materials as pounds or gallons, depending on the finished product.  We would like to create an alternate recipe that would be used to reflect pounds on the shop order by multiplying the finished product lot size on a shop order x the Qty per Assembly x the density factor on the inventory part.  Does anyone know if this is possible and if so, what settings on the recipe alternate are relevant and what value should we choose.

Hi,  Instead of reserve actual stock , can customer order line reserve to a shop order? 

Hi all,When we issue material to a shop order, we always use “simplified material check”. The problem is that if we have not issued more material than the required qty, we cannot approve the operation: The system will try to backflush the remaining qty and the Simplified Material Checkbox is disabled.How do we solve this?

Hi,Is there a way to make the Reported date to be a past date?The Japanese help says this field is automatically filled, i.e., the present date, but I want to have the past date.Seems a calendar can be shown and select a date in the past, but not reflected. Kind regards,Kokubo

I ran Perform ABC, Frequency and Lifecycle Classification for the first time in a test environment.  We have been on IFS for 15 months.  A majority of our items changed to C even though Inventory Basic Data is set to I aggregate inventory every month.  Is there anything else I need to do before running Perform ABC, Frequency and Lifecycle Classification?  Do I need to close Statistics Periods?  Is there any way to print the logic that was used in calculating the new ABC code?  This is our first time doing this and I’d like to this information for documentation purposes and for audit purposes.

Is Custom Field option available in IFSAPP 7.5?Thanks in advance. 

Hi , Does anyone know if there's a functionality in IFS to re-label all inventory parts by location? eg. I want to print labels from all inventory parts located in a specific Bay or Row. I don’t want to print labels part by part, this will take forever. thanks 

Hello, I am attempting to set specific defaults for Reserve/Issue Method and Issue Overreported Qty on the Inventory Part Manufacturing tab. I have not found a Basic Data or setting that would allow me to specify these settings when adding a new Inventory Part.Essentially i would like the Reserve/Issue Method to default to “Backflush” and the Issue Overreported Qty to be checked by default. I’m not sure if this is possible or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It is not possible for me to populate any data in Shop Order or Shop Orders.I receive server error:Database error occurred. Contact administrator.          Url:

Have anyone in here tried to change the default value in Shop Order from Auto Close to Manually Close?  

Hi!I am currently doing my master thesis on “optimizing the internal logistics in production” at a company that have IFS as their ERP system.I was wondering if there is a possibility to have a automatic transport task being created after a operation is completed and registred at a work center, to have it being transported to the next work center?Best regards,Mikael

Does anyone know of a way to Mass update scrap factors for unlinked templates in IFS?  We have a bunch or parts that need to be updated and the link to the templates were broken. So if we update the template, the select number of parts are not updated as well.   If anyone also knows how to mass update standard operations by part number that would also be very helpful for us!

Hi,Is anybody using conditional codes for serial tracked items? I am wondering why if I change condition code from the one that does not have Availability Control ID to one that has it – system assigns that Availability control, but if I do it opposite way – from the one that has AC ID to the one that does not have it, system does not remove the AC ID? See below screens:

Hi AllI know I have seen the answer before, I just cannot find it. I recall someone advising where to go in IFS (2003) to get a list of Transaction Codes and descriptions of them. Can anyone help, please?Thanks!  Tim,