Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Is it possible to turn off forecast consumption entirely in Master Schedule?We have parts with forecast consumption of 0 (backwards and forward). If actual demand and forecast of the part lands on the same day, the forecast is still consumed. We forecast in monthly buckets and manually delete forecast as actual orders are entered. For this reason both the forecast and actual demand need to be counted towards generating supplies. Regards!Eric

We are trying install Delivery Deployment using below command(silent delivery)./installer.sh /opt/ifs/Patch/UPD19/_d/T2.12.0/InstallationFiles . true true APP_OWNER_PWDApplication installed partly and below error is coming consistently "Configuration starting ...", "-------------------------------------------------- ", "2025-04-11 11:19:36 Deploying install.tem IFS Base Functionality 7.0.0", "2025-04-11 11:37:44 Reconfiguring Instance POCMOBILITY", "2025-04-11 11:37:44 Configuring Installer 7.0.0", "2025-04-11 11:37:45 Configuring Server (mandatory) ", "2025-04-11 11:37:45 Configuring IFS PSO Integration 1.0", "2025-04-11 11:37:45 Configuring IFS Document Management 7.0.0", "2025-04-11 11:37:45 Configuring Constraint Based Scheduling 4.0.0", "2025-04-11 11:37:45 Configuring IFS Middleware Server 10.20.23.0", "Error in Ant-script: server/install_fndmws.xml", "Reported error is: The following error occurred while executing this line:", "/opt/ifs/IFS

Hello,I would like to reserve parts link to several operations of one Shop Order using Shop Floor Workbench . But not all the parts of the SO.It seems I can reserve all components or the components of only one operation. 

Hello, I want to create new workflow, but in main page i cannot find workflow designer, I must add some permissions after which i will see “Workflow Designer”?  Thanks

My company recently migrated to IFS Cloud 23R1 (from 7.5, quite a leap).As part of this process, we identified a need to restrict access to some of our product data, so that only a select number of individuals have access to it.We have reviewed the options of populating by Site /by Company but it seems the tables we use Engineering Part/Master Part/Inventory Part would still be visible regardless of which of these we use.Do any of your users segregate Design Data access by product line (or similar)? Is it managed via a property/via site etc? Thank you for any help you can offer.

We are running IFS cloud. I want to run an IFS Workflow when a ShopOrder Status changes to RELEASED. I spent way too much time trying to set this up and getting lots of unintuitive errors messages from the workflow designer and IFS when trying to test, deploy, etc. Anybody ever done this and have some pointers? Thanks,-Chris

Community,below shop order work center R2 got 2  machines. each machine can produce 8 PCS per day (8hrs/day). I have below shop order is 16 PCS. We expect APB could assign 2 resources so that this SO can be completed in one day. But APB failed to do so, this SO is to be completed in 2 days, and only one resource is assigned. Where we missed in settings? Work Center R2 is Finite Capacity, capacity is 16hrs/day. 

I have been on the search for a while to create a SQL query that will re-produce the same data as the Engineering Part Navigator >> Multilevel tab screen.I think I am close:SELECT PART_NO     , SUB_PART_NO     , POS     , QTY     , LEVELFROM ENG_PART_STRUCTURE_TAB EPSSTART WITH PART_NO = '<<YOUR TOP LEVEL PART NUMBER>>' CONNECT BY PRIORSUB_PART_NO = PART_NOORDER BY LEVEL, PART_NO, SUB_PART_NO One interesting thing is the record count from the above query doesn’t match the record count from exporting the data from the Multilevel tab exactly.  I am going to do some compares to see what might be causing this.If anyone has done this and has input it would be greatly apricated.

I am trying MSO simulation scenario functionality to demonstrate how the schedule changes according to capacity adjustments.I increased work center capacity in scenario 8 and the results shows below values  I am unable to explain why there is a difference in total orders. I see makespan is different from production to simulation scenario, but this is what system takes automatically. Further, the total orders doesn’t match with sum of schedule and unscheduled orders. Has anybody got any insights here. Thank you. 

Hello!The problem we are experiencing is that the system adds Level 0 forecast lines behind DTF when the forecast should be dropped. We cannot interpret why the system behaves this way. Some facts that might be relevant: Forecasts are exported from Demand Planner Forecasts are imported into MS every night within the (long) PTF. (not recommended, we know 🙂) Forecasts are distributed weekly in MS forecast 0 Forecast consumption is set to DROP but still these lines end up in Forecast 0 when DTF is passed Some Parts have long Picking Lead times that result in an Actual demand appearing when the DTF is passed. If we have understood the MS logic correctly, the system will keep consuming forecast as long as the goods haven’t been shipped. The consumed forecast lines behind DTF doesn’t completely add upp with the Actual Demand though, although it’s close. In this example there was no unconsumed forecast left to consume for March so if left unhandled, the system will add these 10 503 pcs as an

We are running into some issues with our Work Time Calendar and how it translates to Shop Order dates. We currently run two production shifts, 4 days per work (Mon-Thurs) and scheduling to infinite capacity. Our shift hours as as followed: 1st shift = 5:00am to 3:00pm and 2nd = 3:15pm to 1:15am. We are tying to find a way where transaction dates fall within the start date of the shift, as our 2nd shift hours technically roll into the next day (want midnight - 1:15am hours to count towards the day prior). Since we are scheduling to infinite capacity, it also allows for Friday, from Midnight to 1:15a to be overloaded, from a Shop Order perspective….when we really want Friday as a non-working day and those last hours to count as Thursday. Are there any systematic options for this, other than adjusting the calendar/schedule to drive what we want but have incorrect data (i.e. remove all hours from Friday)?

Need a little guidance here.  I created a lot-controlled part with a lot size of 1 and it created the as-built structure for each lot I created.  I have a repair structure and a repair routing, and I create a repair shop order and ensure that I turn on multi-level repair before I save the shop order. I am getting the materials that I may issue as part of the repair as materials as well as the finished good part on the shop order materials.  I then manually reserve the lot number of the finished good part but here’s the rub. I am NOT getting the multi-level repair structure as I have in the past with serialized parts.  What am I missing??The documentation says it’s possible but…Thanks in advance!

Shop Floor WorkbenchCompany Details: Use Emloyee Labor Cost; TRUESite/Shop Floor Reporting/Direct Labor; Use Employee CostLabor Class: ExistStandard Cost: ExistSalary based rate: not definedWe receive the error USERXXX does not have access to the employee. We thought the standrd cost would be picked?When starting and stopping maunfacturing time/clockings in Shop Floor Workbench.​@Björn Hultgren Can we have any advice of important settings to chage? (Company Details: Use Emloyee Labor Cost; TRUE Site/Shop Floor Reporting/Direct Labor; Use Shop Order Operation Labor Class, works well, and it picks the labor cost) 

We have a client who has a process under which a Shop Order pick list is created and then follows the Assembly it refers to throughout the Assembly procedure.At times this original Pick List can get lost, damaged or defaced to the point it becomes unreadable.Other than going to the Print Manager and hoping that the original is still in the list, is there any way of reprinting the original pick list from within the Shop Order

Do we have a simple explanation of what Backflush means?

I sold a finished product with a serial number to a customer. A component part of the sold finished product was sent back to me for repair. The component part that was sent back to me also has a serial number. I will send a replacement for this part.The customer did not send me the entire finished product , only a part of it, which is our main issue.I cannot reopen the shop order I used to produce the finished product and unissue the component part underneath it, because it is a very old shop order, and the cost calculations for that period have already been made.However, the component part also needed to be entered into my inventory. I received this component part into my inventory with a Return Material Authorization.I manufactured a new spare part and shipped it to the customer.Now, I cannot use this returned serial-numbered component part in another weapon, because it gives me an error saying that “Serialized component  <my component part and serial no> exists in catalog stru

Is there an out of the box function to determine which customer order lines have had the promise date reviewed prior to confirming back to the customer? Our current process:Customer service enters customer order line. By default, the promise date is initially set the same as the Planned Delivery Date. Planning reviews the order line and revises the Target, Planned Delivery, and Promise Dates as needed. Customer service sends order confirmation back to the customer. Planning needs to be able to query for order lines that haven’t been reviewed/promised. I’m considering adding a custom checkbox to indicate the order has been promised but want to verify if there’s a standard process for this.  Thanks!Eric

I need some advice from a production schedule guru. I am running a production schedule and midstream, I want to change a component in the structure and then keep running the production schedule.  The component is a lot controlled item.  Any ideas as to how best do this?  I know I can edit components midstream but I need to do a report against the production schedule to allow this.  Also, I am swapping one lot controlled component to another component.Any guidance you may have will be appreciated!

Community,  Sending this to check what is the best practices to have automatic materials flow from one work center outbound location to the next work center inbound location? Thank you.

Hi,If selecting 100 records of Shop Order Requestion and trying to create shop orders. You may get an error message if something is wrong, listing every requestion and message like: No Buildable Structure, No Operation, No allocation etc...If Pressing OK the shop order creation prcosses is stopped and you have to walkthorugh every shoporder requestions to exclude any faulty requestions. In APP9 you could easally continue the shop order creation process, and later take care of the requestions not generated into shop orders .Should it be like this?Can you propose any other sutaible approach to create shop orders from shop order requestions?  

Dear experts,We are using manufacturing control plans with time interval as sample frequency trigger => each 30 minutes, 5 pieces must be inspected.The question mark concerns the way to alert in any way, in the shopfloor workbench, the employee every 30 minutes that a new quality analysis needs to be done. This is imply that the shop floor workbench is continually refreshed and I think this is not the case.Is someone got the same need ? any idea to meet the need ?Thanks in advance   

Hello, When returning parts to stock using the return tab in the work task (work order) there is no field to choose the revision number of the part being returned (in many cases the part returned is of a previous revision to the currently valid and could be components not related to a customer order) Is there a way to specify the revision of the part being put in stock when doing the return in work orders?(We are using cloud version) Thanks in advance for your responses.

Hi, could you please help me to fix the following error. If I complete all the analysis, then this issue is fixed. But, according to the test plan, customer is doing this without completing all the analysis. as, for their business scenario, it needs to be applied. So, could you please let me know, if there is any parameter to function this?  

Hi Community, We are looking into MES systems based on feedback from our management consulting exercise and are currently evaluating Tulip. Would appreciate feedback and inputs from other customers that are using MES systems on the floor along with IFS ERP. Appreciate your inputs.   

Hello,On the Shop Order Costs module, our Production shop order (3845) has a finished Accumulated Cost/Unit of £1.57 for 200 - Labor Runtime and £5.17 for 221 - Labor Overhead cost, see screenshot attached. This is for 1000 units. When we have come to run the Packing shop orders (10x orders at 100 qty each), the final Packing order (4088) has a final Accumulated Cost/Unit of £3.14 for 200 - Labor Runtime and £9.13 for 221 - Labor Overhead cost, again see screenshot attached. Our Packing orders use a different cost bucket which has no overheads applied, hence the Level Cost/Unit being £0, so how has the Accumulated Cost/Unit increased over the 10 Packing shop orders? We are struggling to work this out so any help given is greatly appreciated.Thank you