Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

I am trying to model a process called pre-staging in IFS Cloud where a manufactured part is tested together with several other parts, including both manufactured and purchased parts. The test itself does not consume the components, but I need to document which components were used for which test, including serial numbers.I also need to record the fact that this test takes time and money, so it would be important to document the test effort and related cost as well. Ideally, the solution should capture both the technical traceability and the business aspect of the test execution.Is there a standard IFS Cloud solution for this requirement? If yes, which standard process or standard object should I use to record test usage, serial number traceability, and test cost/time documentation without building a custom solution?

We have tried to run the database task "Auto Processing Shop Order" as a scheduled task.  we have set the Offset from normal Time Span  at various days so it will only do specified weeks in advance.   Trouble is when we run it all Shop orders even those not within the specified time frame, get all their materials reserved.   is the task faulty or are we not setting the Task up correctly? 

Hi, The question I'm asking is not relevant only to CAPA objects, but also to a number of other objects as well. What we want is to configure approvals for each status of an object/line. In CAPA Actions, the line gets promoted through multiple statuses. The requirement is to set two persons as approvers (Person A and Person B) for the "Investigate" status. So, when a user clicks on "Investigate," the system should check whether Person A and Person B have provided their approval, and allow/disallow user accordingly.Similarly, for the other statuses shown in the image, there will be 2, 3, or more approvers set, with the same validation to be done before promoting the line to that status.It is true that this can be done through customization, but is there a standard/configuration way to do this more simply? Version: IFS Cloud 25R2 S. Already tried with attaching Approval Routings but no effect it seems.

Will an outstanding control plan analysis prevent the shipment of a part?

Hello,We are evaluating Manufacturing Scheduling & Optimization (MSO, IC12816) and would like to clarify the differences between using MSO with and without IFS.ai.From the documentation, MSO appears to be available as a standalone product, while some references describe AI-powered scheduling, simulation, and scenario evaluation capabilities. However, it is not completely clear which functions require IFS.ai Activation Pass and which are available with standard MSO licensing.Could you please clarify the following?Can MSO (IC12816) be fully utilized without IFS.ai Activation Pass? What are the functional differences between: Standard MSO (without IFS.ai) MSO with IFS.ai Activation Pass Is there any official documentation or licensing guide describing the functional boundary between MSO and IFS.ai-related capabilities?Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.Thank you.

Hi,We are currently using IFS APP9 with the Backflush method for material issuing.We have noticed that, for some shop orders, the system issues more material than the required quantity. Upon investigation, we identified the following two issues:Required Material Quantity Calculation, The required material quantity is displayed incorrectly, as the system appears to ignore decimal values during the calculation. Backflush Material Issue, During the backflush process, the system issues excess material, again seemingly without considering the decimal values. As a result, the issued quantity is higher than the actual requirement. I checked the inventory part→ master data. qty round up is properly updated.The lot size is 18, Reported qty is 17.  Please help me on this. Regards, Tharakan                             83 0 85

We have run into an issue where shop order operations were accidentally over reported and then subsequently cancelled. However after cancelling the reports, the Operation Qty has become negative, the remaining open operations were closed, and the outside operation purchase order was cancelled.  I was able to recreate this in our test environment. This issue occurs when the Adjust for Op Qty Deviation toggle is enabled and the over reported operation reports are cancelled in the incorrect order. Essentially what happened in the above screen shot was 141pc were completed through op 160. Then, 500pc were accidentally over reported on the same first 4 operations. Operator brought this to a supervisor to correct their mistake. The supervisor cancelled the operation reports, however they cancelled the report on op 50, then 75, then 110 and finally 160 which caused this compounding Deviation Qty, which in turn drove the Operation Quantities negative. If the reports get cancelled in the revers

Hello All!Does anyone use Project transfer Borrow-Payback functionality?We have a requirement for a lending project to temporarily transfer material to a borrowing project.The lending project has a special discount and gets material at a low price and when the borrowing project procures replacement material to send back to the lending project, the price will be higher.We would expect the variance between the original material cost vs. the replacement material cost to remain on the borrowing project and that the lending project gets material transferred back at the original cost.I see that there is a screen that shows Borrow Cost, Payback Cost and a Cost difference, but I don’t know how it works or how to test it out.Does anyone know how to do such a transaction and know whether the cost difference would somehow remain on the borrowing project in a situation like this?Thank you!Doug Slater

Hi All,.Do we have any inbuilt report in IFS which can tell what is the waiting tine between two operations.?(historic)  What I mean is it will provide detail of  SO no  Current operation Status ( When started) and Closed? and what is the next operation starting time so that we can see what is the waiting time between two operations?  or any useful report which can tell the which operations has delayed or which job has currently delayed? etc

Dears,  can anyone of you point me what might cause this error when I’m trying to load Shop Orders to APB ? IFS10 App  

Hi all,We use IFS Applications 10 and schedule shop orders using APB.I’m trying to model a finite physical constraint: we have a limited number of trolleys, which we call banks, that carry material between operations.Example routing:Operation 10 — Work centre A01, fixed 2 hours Operation 20 — Work centre A02, 1 minute per unitMaterial is loaded onto a bank at Operation 10. The same bank then moves with the material to Operation 20 and is only free again once Operation 20 is complete.So the bank should be constrained from:Operation 10 start → Operation 20 finishnot just during each individual operation.For example, if we only have two banks, APB should not allow a third order to start Operation 10 until one of the first two banks has completed Operation 20.I tried modelling this as a tool:Tool ID: BANKInstances: B01, B02Required on Operation 10 and Operation 20But APB releases the tool after Operation 10, then allocates a tool again for Operation 20. It does not appear to hold the same

Hi,Has anyone translated IFS Cloud into the Traditional Chinese Language? I know this is technically possible, but I am looking for someone that has actually done it.Thanks!

Hello,I would like to know whether there is a parameter in IFS that allows the configuration of a pattern for automatically generated Part Numbers when creating an Engineering Part.For example, if I enter only "test" in the Part Description field and leave the Part Number blank, IFS generates a Part Number such as 100025.Is it possible to configure this automatic numbering scheme so that generated Part Numbers follow a specific format, for example:MAT-000001 MAT-000002 MAT-000003or any other prefix + sequence pattern?If so, where can this be configured in IFS Cloud?Thank you for your help. 

Dear all,Is there a way in IFS Cloud to assign shop order operations and allocate labour hours to individual employees, rather than assigning them to a labour class?If so, could you advise on the functionality or configuration required to support this?  Thank you and kind regards,Samiru 

Hello Lovely people,I have spotted   unusual issue with IFS.   We have BOM structure as per below.Item A-   Sub con  process ( Item type  purchased)Item A1-Sub con process ( item type purchased)we use item type “purchased” for Sub con process.here itemA1 is child part of itemA.  Now After MRP run I could only see the demand generated for  “Item A “ only..   However “ ItemA1”  does not show any demand?I am not sure if anyother MRP set up needs to be done in order to allow both item to be planned in IFS?I came across below  set up in “ Inventory Part” Screen?  What is the importance of this field ? is it auto populate by IFS or someone need to do manually?  

Hi,I hope that you are well.Shop order forward load is not visible against the individual Person on the Resource Analysis page, but the forward load is visible for each employee in relation to work tasks.Is there any way within the system which we can plan at individual level to assess the demand (from shop orders) vs their available capacity?Or is there a way in which we can somehow manually populate the "shop order hours" column in the resource analysis screen?      Thank you for looking into this. Kind regards,Samiru

Good afternoon, We are trying to revoke project disconnection for purchase order lines.  User are allowed to connect to projects just not disconnect.How do I do this?Thanks! 

In 26R1, was there a way to adjust the available capacity when a Work Center was unavailable for a number of days?Ideally, we're looking for a way to set the available capacity to 0 for the specific days when the Work Center is not available.  

When calculating projected balance, system ignores plan purchase requisitions, if it falls within the Planning Time Fence (PTF). Is this intended behavior?   

Hello,Just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight the new MRP Parts page in 26R1. I am  pretty sure all MRP lovers “out there” will appreciate this entry into MRP result :-) It has a lot of good useful columns and it is a good starting point for drilling down to other material planning pages.And if you are not afraid of writing advanced queries you can for example find parts that has Late Order(s) OR Early Order(s) OR Remove Order(s) message like belowGood Luck with MRP planning-Mats

Hi,I'm trying to understand whether the following behavior is standard or not.Create an Inventory Part. Create two Inventory Control Plan Templates. Apply both templates to the Inventory Part. Create a Control Plan from the first template and activate it. Create another Control Plan from the second template and activate it for the same Inventory Part.Both Control Plans can be activated successfully. They are active for the same Inventory Part with the same phase-in and phase-out date range.Next, repeat the same process with a new Inventory PartCreate another Inventory Part. Create two Control Plans using the same Inventory Control Plan Templates. This time, select a Part Revision in the Control Plan header for both Control Plans. Activate the first Control Plan successfully. When attempting to activate the second Control Plan, the following error is displayedThe customer's requirement is to have multiple active Inventory Control Plans for the same Inventory Part that are valid for the

Hi all,We are using the standard IFS Outside Operation / Subcontracting process and have a question regarding the creation and management of purchase requisitions and purchase orders.When a shop order is released, IFS automatically creates the related purchase requisitions or purchase orders for the outsourced operation, depending on the selected supply type. In practice, we often face situations where:Previous operations are delayed and the planned quantity is not yet available for outsourcing. Only part of the quantity can be shipped to the supplier due to transportation capacity constraints/ delays in previous operations.  The standard approach is to split the shop order, which updates the purchase requisitions/orders and creates new requisitions/orders with a later delivery date.However, managing these splits requires significant effort because it is difficult to determine exactly:How much quantity has already been reported as Ship WIP to Supplier. How much quantity is still waitin

Hi,We have strange situation in apps 10 with manufactured parts. FIFO is valuation method for all kind of parts.Despite identical material (bacflush costs) and labor costs being recorded across the period, inventory receipts from the same shop order (SO 325985) are reflecting progressively higher unit costs. Material issues and operation reports are auto-backflushed at receipt creation Multiple receipts from SO 325985 exhibit incrementally escalating unit costs (ranging from 0.1501 to 1.0610 per unit) Material composition and labor standards remain consistent across all receipts within the period (12–13 March 2025)Any thoughts how to investigate this issue? 

Hi everyone,I work at a chemical manufacturing company, and we're in the middle of migrating from IFS Applications V8 to IFS Cloud. One of the points is how to handle manufacturing execution on the shop floor, with a particular focus on assisted weighing.Assisted weighing is critical in our process: the operator needs step-by-step guidance when dosing each component, with real-time weight capture straight from the scale, per-component tolerance validation, blocking when the value falls outside the range, and lot and location binding at each weighing to ensure traceability. The core question is how much of this IFS Cloud covers natively and what's left over.I'd like to understand how those of you already in production solved this kind of scenario. Did you rely on IFS Cloud's native Shop Order and Manufacturing capabilities? Did you adopt a market MES integrated with IFS? Or did you end up building something in-house? And how did the scale integration turn out?Any practical experience wo

Hello, We are receiving an error ‘All created Analysis must be confirmed or cancelled before the operation no 10 is closed’ when trying to approve an operation on the shop floor workbench in IFS Cloud 25R2. This was the confirmed analysis associated with the operation. Why would this error be happening? Thank you.  Thanks,Jay