Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

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.

 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 

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. S

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?

Community, Does anyone happen to know why system push the proposal on May.27 to May.28 for Qty 20? it was PTF 21days, I changed to PTF to 22, i am expecting Fixed MPS created on date May.27. Thank you. 

We are trying to make our Functional Object ID (aka mch_code) be an auto incremented field.  Does anyone know how to do this or if it is at all possible?  Maybe with control - datasource or something in Page Designer?  I am not having much luck looking for help or examples in existing posts.

Hi Community. we have only a few employees unable to clock onto shop order operations due to the error message below about being unable to get costs from the labour class.the operators are in the correct labour classes and are active shopfloor employees connected to the correct site.we have recently created new manufacturing labour classes and update the labour costs and the issue has only happened since then. Other employees are able to clock onto the operation without any problems.Any ideas what could be causing this for a certain few employees? regards Jamie

Hi Experts,Can someone please throw light on Shop order  replication, which is under Site > Manufacturing Tab.Didn’t find much information in the E-Learning as well.Thanks ! 

Hi all,I am looking to implement the following sequence in IFS App10 :starting point : A is a purchased inventory part, appearing as a component in multiple finished and/or semi-finished products ; Planning method is set to either A or G, meaning part is handled on a purchase-to-order basis, and there are no parts in inventory ahead of time. step 1 : setup B as an alternate part for part A at master level (B is also a purchased inventory part) : this, I know how to do (side note : B is effectively an alternate purchase structure relative to A : A and B have the same drawing number, A has an empty Purchase structure, B has raw material included in its Purchase structure) step 2 : receive / register PO from customer, launch / release corresponding DOP order, end up with a shop order that has A as a component (all this is fine as well) step 3