Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi all,We are running a production with a considerably amount of programming (cad/cam/dtp) between operations. We need to register the time used. For that we have created a the work center, Programming. The routing can look like this:This leaves us with some challenges. The main one is that programming can finish before and after the other operations. E.g. operation 20 can finish before operation 10 (not possible in IFS) and the other way around.We suspect that we should do this in another way. Any suggestions? 

We use the full MRP - shop orders created by demand from sales and automatic purchasing but we are having issues with stock availability. There seem to be a number of reasons, most are down to custom fields/processes we brought in due to the unique was the business operates. Does anyone else experience issues? Considering performing stock availability checks outside of the system using a BI took, or other 3rd party app 

We are manufacturing products which can be sold under a different brands.  The product and the packaging is exactly the same (product structure and routing identical) , but the marking is different depending on the customer In IFS (V8), we have many sales parts linked to the same inventory part. The marking information is today carried by the sales part.Ex :Sales part A / marking A => inventory part 1Sales part B / marking B => inventory part 1Sales part C / marking B => inventory part 1The issue we are facing is that we have a project in-house to connect IFS to our marking machine to automate the marking operation and so, we need to bring the marking information in a routing operation. Alternates routing can manage this, but the choice of the marking must be automatic. And we do not want to duplicate our inventory parts.Is there any solution or tip to have a different operation or routing for the same inventory part based on

We are currently on apps 9.7 and need to set up a second export license for a scenario where a purchased material must have a license, and can be controlled by multiple licenses, but in a way that we need to select one or the other when purchasing it.  Both licenses should not be connected to a single Purchase Order line because the licenses have separate quantities allowed to be licensed.Example:Part No: 923License: 8      Qty licensed for PN 923: 3500     This license is already in use and should be connected when the material is purchased for the purpose of being used in productionLicense: 9       Qty licensed for PN 923: 250    This license is new and should be connected when the material is purchased for the purpose of being used internallyPurchase Order:     Line 1/Rel 1 - PN 923 - qty 250 - should be connected to license 9     Line 1/Rel 2 - PN 923 - qty 500 - should be connected to license 8On the PO for this ma

Hello Guys, I hope all of you were fine. Can someone give me a tip about the error message on attached image? Happens for most of rdl files when I try to open some file. The strange is: I’m already appoiting to the the RD to correct version required on prompt:     BR

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Where can i fill the List of values for signature in the screen move serial object?

Hello, I am looking for a way to prevent our Logistics department from Delivering/Completing a shipment without approval. Currently, we have been experiencing issues with incomplete data being filled out by our shipping clerks. This is leading to post-shipment cleanup transactions. I’ve noticed in Shipment Type, there is an Approve before Delivery checkbox. The help seems to indicate that enabling this will require a shipment to be approved before Delivery can be made. Unfortunately, there is not additional detail on how this approval works. Has anyone used this feature before? If so, how is the approval setup? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 

Is there a way in IFS to enter translations for Part Characteristics Values?  (Not Codes) 

My company has recently began to develop kits that include several items that are sold individually also. Demand for the kit is not driving down to the components.The kit part number has MS Level 1 forecast demand and customer order demand. Set up as G/30 with SS and Min Lot Size.The items used in the kit also have MS Level 1 forecast demand and customer order demand. Set up as G/30 with SS and Min Lot Size.The kit supply *shop orders* shows as demand on the kit component. The kit supply *shop order requisitions* does NOT. How do I get combined total demand for the kit component that includes all of these:Component MS Level 1 Forecast Component Customer Orders Kit Shop Orders Kit Shop Order Requisitions Thank you!

Good Morning Community.We are using IFS version 8.How can I restrict creation of shop order for specific part nos by unauthorized users.If part no is ABCD-OOGH-0001,ABCD-OOGH-0002,ABCD-OOGH-0003,ABCD-OOGH-0004then user jack can create the shop order for this part but not other users.

Does someone have the SQL code required to create a Quick Report for Supplier Age Analysis ? 

We have a problem with Shop Order requisition due dates relative to shop order start dates that result from a MRP run. If our order quantity is 1, the manufacturing lead-time is 5, and the due date is 09/25/2020 then the start date will be 09/24/2020; why is it not offset 5 days?  Should be offset by the fixed manufacturing lead-time. If we change the order quantity to 10, then the start date is offset by 10 days and is 9/15/2020; this is not good.  We want to use “standard practice” where the lead-time offset is not affected by the order quantity size. Can anyone please help with this? EDM

Does anyone offer tools or shortcuts that would aide in setting up permissions in Aurena? We have permission sets for functional areas in IEE that we would like to convert over.  The process now seems quite manual. Thanks.

Hello,  I’m attempting to use the Copy Part feature to copy an Inventory Part, Routing, and Product structure to another site in my system. Currently, we are creating parts in an estimating site that houses all of our work centers, labor classes, etc. Once the parts are finalized, I would like to use the Copy Part function to move those parts to the correct manufacturing site. I have noticed that the Copy Part function works, however it does not bring over my routing steps. I’ve tried changing the status to Build, but the routing steps still do not appear after the copy. I’m not sure if there is something I’m missing, or if this is how the Copy Part function works when you try to copy to another site.  The final item I’ve noticed is that you are not able to copy a new Product Structure component part to a new site unless you manually copy the part prior to running the Copy Part from the top level Inventory Part. My assumption was that if you run the Copy Part

Hi All, This question is related to BR version 5.0.9.0. Please see attached word document for related screen shots.   Attempt 1: I added a  customer attribute ‘SELECTION_GRP’  to FACT_TIME_TRANSACTION (source type - Function Call) and used it as a BR report parameter . The report will show LoV for ‘Selection Group’ when it runs from BR .But when I run it from IFS/Order Report LoV is not displayed. I think the reason for missing LoV in IFS may be ‘SELECTION_GRP’ is not a primary key item   Attempt 2: I did not see a standard dimension for ‘Selection Group’ , So I created a Quick Dimension  for Selection Group. And tried to create a Relation for Fact using Quick Dimension. but was unable to do so because I could not find a fact item id from FACT_TIME_TRANSACTION to the ‘selection_group’ source

Hi, One of our manufacturing work centers (currently setup with a single resource and labor class, on a 24/6 calendar, equating to 24 hours of available capacity per day) needs to be amended. We’re looking for this loading cell to enable 48 hours of work to be done per day. A new calendar can’t be created (48/6). Our only option, it appears, is to include an additional resource.But in doing so, APB (our main scheduling platform) makes the orders released to this work center start in parallel to each other. Where, in reality they should be one after. Is there another way around this, without recourse to halving the MFG factor of the parts routed to this work center?Any suggestions? many thanks,Jay

Hi,Is it possible to somehow set the volume and weight on the customer order line of a configured part based on the characteristic values? If you for example enter the dimensions of the product as char values the weight and volume need to be calculated.Kind regardsKristian

Hello,The Quality Team has requested to store some data that in the standard environment doesn't exist.In details they want to manage the daily repairs they do during the production.The repairs are connected to an existing MRB case (Quality Management->Quality Assurance->Material Review Board->Case->MRB Case).What they need to store (and of course put in a report that will be developed later) is:1.MRB Number2.Part number3.User ID4.DateThere could be many part numbers in many dates for the same MRB Number. Each of them represent a single row of the table.For doing this it is necessary to create a new LU, isn't it ?The new LU has to be inserted into a new tab in the MRB Case LU, taking the field [1] from the header: how to obtain it ? As a parameter ? As a read-only field ?The field[2] has to be taken from the components of the shop order written in the header: my thought is to create a field typ

We are using IFS 9 update 14 with multi-company connections.A user from our US company is trying to register project time for a connected project/activity from our Finnish company. When saving the entry they get the error message: You cannot modify project transactions of company CCUS without a valid position assignment.The users have been setup as multi-company correctly and have successfully registered time for other multi-company projects. We have seen this error occur for another muti-company project. The solution for that issue was a missing default site value on the project. (Not the solution this time.)We assume there is an issue with the project/activity or multi-company connection but, the time reg. message is not providing much help. Comparing the problem project with another working project has not shown any differences in the configuration.

Hello,Would it be possible to have a mirror of the “warranty repair” checkbox of customer orders in the window of shop order. If the user checks in shop order, the checkbox is checked in the sales order (as example) Thank you.

This is hopefully a quick solve! We’re getting an error using Demand Plan client where it’s saying weight is missing when we try to forecast based on Net Weight.   The obvious answer is to add a Net Weight to the Master Part, however we’ve done this and ran all the jobs to update the client. It’s still not working. Any ideas on other fields or areas of the system to check? Looking at everything obvious this part is set up the same as any other where we can do this.

Hi All,I’m trying to create a custom field that looks up the planner of a part (using INVENTORY_PART_API.Get_Planner_Buyer) where the company is always 1 and the part number is an other custom field in a custom logical unit I’ve created. Please see the image below: Here is the error I’m getting during validation: 

Often times in our industry, we will need to requote an existing product to our customer. The Bid Estimate module does allow us to pull in the existing Inventory Part, which is great. However, I have noticed that if you do that, you cannot modify the Std Lot Size on the part. I’ve attempted to create a new Version and Revision, but I am still unable to change this. Often times we will change the Std Lot Size to give several cost options. Is there a way to accomplish this in IFS?    

How to change “Not Life Limited” serial part to “Life Limited” serial part after user in a serial structure template. Initially i have installed a Serial Part in serial structure template as a “Not Life Limited” serial part but after a certain period period of time, the same Serial Part become “Life Limited”, so just wanted to know how to modify my serial part and consequently my serial structure template.