Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi,We are now facing a blocking error that we are not able to solve.During creation of a new Master Part/Inventory Part/Revision etc … the error “Assignment of an invalid value or value type has occured in Part Catalog” is constantly poping.Did you ever face the same problem and maybe know how to solve it ?RegardsNicolas  

Hi Community,  Has anyone seen this Error message beforeA couple of things to note that is not as obvious from this error. The customer is not using tracked structures on any part, this has been checked. This error message is off the back of a RMB in header, Unissue All to original location. this also happens on the Manual processes. Please note the SO has nothing reported on ops and has nothing received in. This order was previously Parked. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.   

what is the easiest way to determine how many shop orders are attached to the product structure? I am looking for a way to see how many shop orders are needed when an existing product is planned to build.

Hello, We use the  putaway zone to prioritize reservations on parts and since this implementation, we have realized that the operation closing with the APPROVE OPERATION button (shopfloor workbench) took ten times longer to execute correctly.After analysis, we saw that the procedure relies on the putaway ranking for each item line in the shop order.  INSERT INTO INVENT_PART_BIN_RANKING_TMP ( CONTRACT, PART_NO, WAREHOUSE_ID,   BAY_ID, TIER_ID, ROW_ID, BIN_ID, RANKING, HANDL_UNIT_RESERVATION_RANKING ) VALUES …… The solution is to delete the storage zone ranking ..but the priority between storage zones no longer work.Can you tell us if there is another solution to prioritize the stock of a part between several storage zone ?  Thanks in advance. Regards.

Hi,I have a issue with the view :frmWorkAssignmentContainerEAM. A consequente number of employee can’t  acces the work who has been affected. employe without acces employe with acces thank you for your help

Hi All, I noticed when I set the Roll Flag to off on an MS Level 1 part, the safety stock value is no longer considered. I can understand that when I set the Roll Flag off, I’m asking the system not to consider the impact of my planned excess production in the PTF, so MS simply maintains my projected balance at the end of the PTF. This is good for a scenario I have where in combination with rate by period I can get MS to create a pretty fixed & stable production plan. However I noticed if the projected quantity is below the safety stock at the end of the PTF, MS still just works to maintain this quantity, rather than the safety stock. I wanted to check if this is intentional behaviour? My concern is, that if I get a demand spike in the PTF, this won’t be picked up easily… ok yes I should be checking action messages ;) Is there a reason the the logic can’t be ‘maintain whichever is higher, PTF Quantity or Safety Stock’?  

Hi, We are a make-to-order company, we will always see an amount of scrap from production, which is why we manually add 10% to the shop order quantity then the customer has asked for. Is it possible to get IFS automatically to add e.g. 10% more than the customer order is.

We are attempting to implement shop floor workbench and manufacturing control plans for Shop order execution; current state we run a crystal report and technicians fill out the paper copy. We are running into concerns of traceability (what is where, what was done when). We currently have an external serial tracking system we added to IFS, but we are looking into implementing the internal serial number tracking. Is there any shop floor reporting / Manufacturing in process serial number tracking? (ex.: if my executable qty is 4 and i enter 2, I'm required to enter what SNs I am approving through to the next operation)? Or any other “in process” serial tracking features? Workbench or manufacturing control plan specific. Any info helps!

In IFS Cloud I don't get the oppertunity to print attached documents with the Work Insturction Report.The checkbox is missing on the dialog screen. Do we miss some setting somewhere?How can we make it visible?

We currently change the part status to “Suspend” in Inventory Part when Engineering has a change to execute and don’t want planning to be able to release shop orders.Unfortunately, it also blocks MRP from executing for that specific part number and we lose all visibility. Is there another way to block planning or purchasing but still executing MRP? We are in Apps 10 UPD 8.  

HI,Is there an existing window where we can record Propane (Gas) In and Out Quantities without generating GL transactions. Customers’ ultimate requirement is to extract a report and post a compiled GL entry at the end of the period.Many Thanks,Lakna

I have a Custom Logical Unit and I want to add an LOV field to it that displays a list of all employees. I know how to do that; using a custom field I can add a restricted reference that selects from a view.However I need it to be a view that displays all employees but does not require admin privileges.I am using IFS EE 10. Thank you.

We are trying to configure a shop order that allows operation to create asset and consume parts etc and create a cost. We also require to have a subcontractor to come on site and carry out a task. This task will have to link to a PO as the subcontractor will be invoicing for time and materials.I also need to consume a cost for any consumables used for the build by my company. The consumables are not needed to be track just a cost against them what would the best way to achieve this be please

Could someone explain to me in detail the purpose of the W/D/R option?How to use it correctly and what impacts does it cause when used?

When you have a shop order with materials is there any way that we can aggregate all the materials to one handling unit and store as Pallet, Container etc.

I’m making a custom view to pull the labor class from Routings to show in Customer Order Lines, it functions by checking the first number of the labor class and giving it a 10, 40, 50, or using the site number from COL otherwise based on the result. The issue is if there is no corresponding entry in Routings then it would default to the site instead, it will just show up as null. Is there a way to force IFS to use the source field? Here is the main code I have in the SELECT custom field.SELECT CASE WHEN SUBSTR(labor_class_no,1,1) = '1' THEN '10' WHEN SUBSTR(labor_class_no,1,1) = '4' THEN '40' WHEN SUBSTR(labor_class_no,1,1) = '5' THEN '50' WHEN :catalog_type = 'Non inventory part' THEN :contract ELSE :contract END FROM ifsapp.routing_operation where part_no = :part_no and contract = :contract and routing_revision = (select MAX(routing_revision) from ifsapp.customer_order_join left outer join ifsapp.routing_operation where part_no = :part_no and contract = :contract and alternative_no =

 We have a customer that is trying to push in their MES data from their machines into the Shop Floor Clockings screen to capture starts/stops/downtime.  This, in turn, drives costing for them.  An issue they ran into is that the Clockings screen does not allow for seconds in the time stamp. In our world, they could have multiple transactions occur within 1 minute.  The customer is curious if this was a possible future change coming for Cloud. It doesn't appear the customer can update that field to hold seconds.  Other fields have seconds showing.  Is this a feature of machine monitoring? Has anyone accomplished this? Thanks!!!

Import External Product Structure in IFS CLOUD it’s the best solution?IFS Cloud Documentation Prepare the file for import: The file should be in Excel format and contain the items you want to import. Ensure that the file is ready for import by removing any headers and saving it as a CSV file with semicolon as the delimiter.File without headersConfigure the external layout: Be sure to configure the external layout correctly by paying attention to the conversion of the file to CSV or TXT format.Open Import External Product StructureCreate a list of items: Create a list of items that you want to import.Configure External Layout with DelimiterCreate a construction item: If the construction item does not exist, create one.Are there existing parts?Connect to the construction item: Connect the imported items to the construction item.Check the import result: Check the import result to ensure that the import was successful.

An employee accidentally made the operation status closed, I want to undo this operation.To do that, right click on the relevant line in Cancel Operation Reports and the error shown in the picture see below. I cannot solve this error.  

I am unable to get Labor Load Details to populate after running CRP. I have Man Labor Hours connected to Shop Order Operations. I also have Labor Classes (all set for groups). We do not house employee information in IFS. I have Crew Size, Labor Classes, etc. entered on routings. As a reference, we are in the process of adding a Scheduling Visualizer Tool (i.e. Manufacturing Visualizer) but I am trying to do all of my prechecks to make sure it is pulling all the correct information. Any insight is helpful!Thanks!

Hi all.I have calculated the cost set 12 for all inventory parts on a site and all was right. After that, I have copied all the inventory parts from cost set 12 to cost set 1. The job finished ok.But, the result is that all the inventory parts have not been modified. I do not know why. But, if, manually, I copy the cost for an inventory part no copied in the previous process, I mean, RMB in Part Cost window, the cost is copied well.Does anyone know why? Is the same process running from the menu for all inventory parts as the job running from Part Cost window

Hi Community, I would like know if theire is any way to handle kind of FIFO on location level for backflushing: my purpose is I’ve got a work center with inbound location for backflush for a specific component there is always two handling units on the inbound location (one started and one full). Currently, depending on handling unit ID, the backflush is always done one the lower ID, that is to say when I look on my inventory part in stock on the location, I’ve got two started handling units instead of having one empty and one full.NOTA: I whish use the empty handling units to trigger the fact that it is needed to refill the location with a new full handling unit. All ideas are welcome, thanks in advance. Best Regards, Jean-Christophe 

Hello,I would like to ask if it is possible to change the counting method in “Part Revision”. By default, it’s an incrementation from “1”.We would like to change the format from numeric to alphabetic et create an incrementation on alphabet “ A B C D ...”Maybe you know how to do that in IFS Cloud ?

I can' t find operation tools in ShopOrder. IFS and MES system are integration. Therefore I have to see the operation tools.

Where is handling unit traceability in IFS10? If a handling unit is created from another handling unit, where is that from- to- handling unit information stored?  I ask because I’m familiar with that kind of functionality in SAP.