Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

 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.

Does anyone know what causes the “Total Cost” value on the CRO cost lines to be a negative value?We’ve seen this happen with CROs where the repair shop order is processed, material and labor are applied and when the cost lines are generated the LABOR cost category is a negative value even though the shop order cost is positive.Thank you

23.1.4In Visual Shop Orders Planning, the Material Material Availability Summary chart shows (4) orders with a shortage, and the same part is short on these four orders.My Material Lines Availability chart is filtered from the Material Availability Summary chart.When grouping by Material Line, I can see each instance of this part on its four shop orders. The Remaining Quantity on these orders are 30, 30, 20, and 20 for a total of 100. When grouping by Part, though, the Remaining Quantity shows as 30 not 100. Why is this not showing 100 as the Remaining Quantity for this part on this date? 

 I am working with in aerospace company who is at the moment, very early in the production of their product. As such, they have a heavy learning curve and thus an item may take significantly longer than anticipated. The customer says that there are standards for the learning curve that can be applied per the iteration of the unit being produced. For example, unit 1 may take a learning curve of 3.9 times the operation machine/labor time. Unit 50 may be a learning curve of 1.1 times.Logically, we would affect the operation efficiency on the shop order to reflect the learning curve. However, we do not have the capability of "automatically" adjusting the operation efficiencies as the learning curve has improved.Has anyone ever encountered this and if so, what did you do to accommodate that? Thanks.

We always manually issue materials on shop orders without reserving them first. We currently have a shop order for which we were able to manually issue the materials. But now when we try to Approve the Operation in the shop floor workbench, we get the error message “There are not enough reservations to issue this amount. Part ##### needs to be Reserved before issue. What is the cause of and or resolution to this error message?  thank you

I am seeing there is a Component Summarized Where Used table in IFS and I am wondering how this information gets updated?  We have a part that if you look up on the “Component Where Used” screen does in fact show parent parts.  I read on the help page that in order to show here it must have a part cost.  The part was added after our go-live, and it was originally missing a cost, but I have it valued now.  However, it is still not showing up on the “Component Summarized Where Used” screen.  Is there a job that has to run to update this information?

All,We have recently created a video covering the scope of our Manufacturing solution so wanted to share it with the community.Most of you will be using it on a day to day basis, but if you have people in your company that don’t know what IFS is or how it can be used then it could be useful as an introduction for them.Anyway, let me know you comments on it and if it is useful!Thanks,AntonyIFS Cloud for Manufacturing

Hello - We are on apps10 update 21.  I have a question from my production control team.What field on what screen could we use to have purchase reqs or shop order reqs created with a need date 7 days prior to the need date on the shop order calling for the parts?They are looking to put in some safety or buffer days on the shop order level.Thanks

We are currently working through an implementation of IFS Cloud and are running in to an issue when transferring new manufactured parts during our practice sessions.Our current process includes the creation of new manufactured parts that may use some standardized manufactured components. We have released/transferred the revisions for these standardized parts.Our issue arises when we use one of these standard parts in a new top part structure, new revisions of the previously released components are being created every time we release/transfer a new top part. We are currently selecting “Single Level Transfer” when performing the Engineering Revision Transfer Action, is this an unintended consequence?

Is there anyone that have runned into a situation where the demand is to have an extended control plan if it has been very long since latest delivery/latest shop order?When frequent deliveries /frequent shop orders  ordinary control plans is ok to be used, but when there is a gap between occations there is a need for a extended analyse.I have not found any obvious way of solving this. Is there anybody that have an idea how to solve this demand?

Hi,In IFS app09 it was possible to change the Timing Out Lobby Element.I just want to know how is it possible to change this setting in IFS app10?

Our customer wants Employee ID's not selectable and visible during identification in the IFSCloud SFWBench. Abuse must be prevented and one wants to be sure that all time clockings are done by the employee who owns the badge. For this reason, the aim is to identify the employees by means of NFC badges.  Does anyone have experience with such a link or guidelines to set up an interface with NFC tags?  Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Willy

Hi,we have quite recently implemented IFS Cloud and have this issue. Customers deliver to us certain components for production of their devices free of charge. We need to register them and move around the company (stock, shop floor...). We planned to book them in as customer owned stock but it seems this option is totally not suitable for it. We don't see that stock as available and can't reserve and use it in production. Also purchasing is damaged, MRP doesn't calculate with this quantity. What is the purpose of this functionality? It is useless. We have to book it with 0.01 Eur value as owned by company which is not true. Wouldn't it be more correct if we can do all operations with it?Thanks 

Hi, The business I'm employed by is considering the purchase of Project MRP (or pMRP) to compliment our existing packages (IFS Apps 10 and APB).   However, it's not entirely clear what additional features pMRP provides (and the problems this tackles that the 'stock' planning tools can't).   Can you please outline its key contributions to production planning or at least some information with respect to it. I can't find any detailed resources online for reference.   Many thanks, Jay    

Why the Inventory parts of negative quantities cannot be included in Count Report Have recreated 3 scenario in 23R2 Regional test LKP . Site: WFMscenario 1 Inventory part with 0 qty,  scenario 2 Inventory part with 10 qty ,scenario 1another one with -80 qty. Count report is created for the SIV-M0003-1 = 0 Qty and SIV-M0001-1 = 10 qty.  But For SIV-M0002-1= -80qty count report not created.   In additional I found, in the Background job with warning  Its shows Error Key value  Why we have in the Error information it show Error Key Value.  Can anyone can explain me why the inventory part negative quantity in stock not able to create count report.

How the shop order can be closed, when there is enough purchase part in quantity in stock. Shop order is reserve partially. Recreated in 23R2 Regional test LKP.Manufacture part: SIV-M0002Purchase part: SIV-M0002-1, Note Purchased, Negative On Hand Allowed: On Shop orders no 204774Receive inventory part  in stock SIV-M0002-1 . only 20pcs*Created shop order with lot size 100  > Release the shop order > Manually reserve the inventory part*Now the shop order in partially Reserved.( because we have only 20 pcs)*Just directly issue- When I issue shop order status is completely Reserved.  *Next step I Receive the item. Now the shop order is closed. Shop order closed due to the option Negative on Hand Allowed: On  , in the purchase part. Why no Warning message is pop when receive the material. 

As of 22R2, a Downtime clocking can be started without providing a Downtime Cause.At what point in the production clocking/reporting process is it required to have a value in the Downtime Cause field, e.g., a value must be entered before ‘X’ occurs or before ‘X’ can happen. What is ‘X’?This field cannot remain blank forever, or can it?