Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

I have several top level assemblies that consist of a few sub-assemblies. I am getting the components of each sub-asseb,ly when I print the Work Instructions but I am not getting the routing for them. Is there a way that I can :A: Have the routings for each sub-assembly show with the top level shop order. orB: Have the system link all the routings together 9Meybe with the sequesce?

I have a customer that has a requirement to send detailed cost information of their parts manufactured in Mexico to the Mexican Government.  To do this, they use an excel spreadsheet that is used to load into a customs broker system called Aranxel. The standard report, “Cost Build-Up Report - High Detail”, contains all the necessary information but it is meant to be printed; not into Excel.  The “Structure Multi-Level” display shows all the breakdowns but it does not include the cost bucket breakdowns. The “Part Routing Costs per Cost Bucket” display does not explode through the product structure. Does anyone know of a standard query that can exreact multilevel cost information by bucket?  Alternatively, has anyone developed such a query?   Here is the format used currently: 

Hi together,I got a question.Is there a specific reason why a direct transfer of eng parts is not allowed in standard for multiple positions?(mask: Engineering Revision Transfer Status)all positions are in status assigned and single position direct transfer is possible all for positionsKinds regards 

Hello,When working in a team on the shop floor workbench and an operation is started there is the option to select team members. With this option I would expect the shop floor clockings would only be created for those team members. But when Im checking the shop floor clockings after stopping the production, the clockings are created for all team members. Am Im missing a setting or can this be a bug? Kind regards, Willem

We are using control plan for purchasing receipt inspection, there is option to trigger type of manual with help document description like below:Manual - This is not triggered by any existing value in the system, instead it can be used to create custom defined triggering points and connect them to this trigger type.Given the above help description, we still don’t know how to and where to create this custom define triggering. Is there further instruction and support document for help? Thanks a lot.Semon

So we have a situation where we are trying to adjust the On Hand Qty of a part that is sitting in an Arrival type location. Somehow after this part was received and subsequently moved out of the arrival location, a very small quantity than 1 (see 1st screenshot) remained in the Arrival location and now we cannot adjust it out. We have tried doing an inventory issue as well as a count per inventory part but the arrival location does not show up as a location we can do the adjustment for. We have tried backing out that quantity from the PO which was somehow cancelled, but we couldn’t do it. As you can see from the second screenshot, somehow IFS performed a move for 3029.xxxxxx. And I kinda why the On Hand Qty that was left behind is what it is. This part in Inventory Part had the Qty Calc Rounding set at 16. How do we get rid of the 0.0000000000000001 qty.  

Suppliers have non conforming material that they want us to disposition before we receive. What is the best way to do. Would like to go through the material review board but can’t create MBR since part is not received

Hello,  Is there a possibility to use 1 serial sequence for all manufactured serialized parts, auto generate in IFS cloud? Kind regards.Willem

Hello,I need help. I get an error message when I try to split a work order, but it doesn't happen every time. Also, my customer doesn't use handling units.Can you tell me if you've ever seen this message? It's really just a standard split.Thank you for your help.       

Dears,  I have a question. We have tried the reservation from the specific location on the shop order which is possible once the following choices are made:   However when I try to do this for configuration structure instead of the product one, the automatic reservation is not an option. To be fair, I am not using the floor stock.  Can you please advise? Thank you,Best RegardsPetaKu 

Hello   from the documentation, I understand that the IFS instance has to be set up exclusively either as 1) enabling copy from Project Deliverables to Asset or 2)to Copy to Equipment. This setup being based on property COPY_TO_MAINTENANCE. Does it mean that once it’s defined for an IFS instance, and that Project Deliverables has been used, then it should stay as it is? Does it means that it’s not possible to run both flows in the same instance? Thanks

Hello, A brief question regarding the 2 views mentioned “Operation Statistics” and “Labor and Operation History”. We are aiming to get the correct data from our shop floor regarding what has actually been produced during a given time period. What we experience is that “Operation Statistics” does not provide the same information as “Labor and Operation History”. Wheras the latter also requires us to manully filter out duplicates, cancelled operations etc. Operation Statistics seems to be the way to go, but I am uncertain that we use it correctly. Whereas if I want to check on yesterday’s shop floor results. I miss out on partially reported shop orders due to there is not actual finish dates. Does anyone have any tips on how to procede?My first though is that we need to “start production” and use clockings more thorughly in production. Which gives us the possiblity to filter on “actual start date” instead. We

Why would the duration be different on two clocking when the start and stop times are the same?  Note the screen shot below… the duration on 11/6 is 3.87 hours, but the duration on 11/10 is only 1.48 hours.  It appears that the system is doing something different on Mondays but it’s only impacting certain employees.  

(Cloud) Is there a function where there is routing operations logic? What we are seeing is when we run the Advanced Planning Board (ABP), is that our operations are not scheduling directly after each other once the previous operation is completed. For example,We have Tool T1473 that has 2 instances (1733 and 1744)Our Routing is setup 10 (Prep)- Uses Tool T147320 (Mix) - Uses Tool T147330 (Cure) - Uses Tool T147340 (Remove supports)- Uses Tool T147350 (Test) - No Tool usedWork Center is all the same (expect 50) with 1 Resource And what I’m seeing is that during scheduling, the tool jumps from one tool instance to another tool instance instead of keeping with the same instance. And then also it starts Op 40 days later after Op 30 is done. Is t

Dear all,We have IFS10 and when MRP is executed, IFS removes all Shop Orders Requisitions with status “Proposal Created” even if it as Balance Id assigned.It seems that this is the standard behavior, but sometimes the planning person is doing the Batch Balancing and has several Shop Order requisitions already with Balance Id assigned to do the creation of the Shop Orders and left them from one day to another, during the night MRP executes and all Shop orders are removed and he needs to do all the balance again.Can someone tell me if in IFS Cloud the behavior is the same?Thanks & Regards,André Lima

The feature of allowing an operation quantity on a shop order to be less than the lot size of the shop order was introduced in Cloud 23R2. This is controlled on individual shop order operations by the new attribute Manual Operation Qty (Yes/No). This will be beneficial when a partial quantity needs to run through a one-off rework operation on the same manufacturing shop order.Manual Operation Qty can be set on Standard Operations, Routing Template Operations, and Routings of type Repair, Disassembly, Remanufacturing and Disposition.Why is this feature not available on Routings of type Manufacturing? A common use case is when testing is its own operation, but the full lot size will never need tested and reported as the completed quantity. The ability to set this in the Routing rather than manually on the manufacturing shop order would be an improvement.

Using the “Compare Shop Order with Structure and Routing” option on a shop order shows blowthough phantom items strangely. I get that its doing a 1 to 1 with the product structure so it shows the phantom as being “absent” on the shop order structure and the blow-through components as being “additional”.But I don’t like how the default action is to “remove” the additional components, when they really should be there. We had a change order come through and a planner went through this screen to update shop orders and removed many components without realizing. If we use the “Update Structure Revision and/or Alternate” or “Mass Update Shor Order Structures” it updates the shop orders correctly. Just wondering if I’m missing something with a setting or something. Or if anyone knows if there is any plans to make the Compare feature a little “smarter” in regards to phantom structures.

Hi,We are working on a solution for a manufacturing metal fabrication customer who would do multiple cutting operations for different products using an Operation Block. They are not using clockings to track start and end operations, only manual approving operations.Cutting Example:Cutting 10 Shop orders are created to fabricate 10 different pipe products of 10 different diameters. Each and every shop order has a cutting operation is their operation list. For all the cutting operations planners use one cutting resource. All the cutting operations from 10 shop orders combine into 1 operation block. Then the operator uses shop floor workbench to approve the operations in the operation block. When the operator tries to approve, he has to enter, machine, labor and quantities manually for each operation. What they expect is to enter quantity, labor and machine time total quantity and distribute.We find that distributing quantity is confusing because it i

Hello community,  I am facing a question here… how to calculate the lead time for all routing alternates with status buildable at once in IFS Cloud?   I can do it one by one but when I mark two or more, the option disappears. I was thinking about BPA but as I am not an IT girl, I asked GPT for help. Can somebody confirm that this would be doable or propose suitable adjustements?  START (Scheduled or Manual)routing_alternatives =  SELECT contract,         part_no,         routing_revision,         alternative_no  FROM Routing_Alternative  WHERE objstate = 'Released'FOR EACH routing_alternative IN routing_alternativesLOOP   CALL Routing_Alternative_API.Calculate_Manufacturing_Lead_Time(        contract          => routing_altern

Hi I was wondering if there was some documentation or suggestions for dealing with First Article Inspection for manufacturing on IFS. I was hoping for something that would help for implementating.Thanks  

We need to assign employees/teams to shop order operations. According to the documentation for IFS Apps 10, this feature is available from the Shop Order Operations RMB and also in the Shop Floor Workbench.However, when I checked in the IEE client (Apps 10), I couldn’t find this option anywhere. In Aurena, it is available (in the same environment as the IEE client).Initially, in Aurena, the command button was not visible because CBS(Constraint Based Scheduling) was active on all sites. Since we do not use CBS, we disabled it. After that, the “Assign Employee/Team” option became visible in Aurena.Now, we need to check whether this functionality is also available in the IEE client, because the currently used client is IEE.Is this feature supported in the IEE client for Apps 10?Current version: Apps 10 UPD 18

Problem We have an Entity ShopMaterialAlloc with some Custom Fields   I want to create a Tab List in “Shop Floor Workbench” Page to show “Where Used Material” based on association between “ShopOrderOperation” and “ShopMaterialAlloc”OPERATION_NO - CF_MATR_WHERE_USED_OPERORDER_NO - ORDER_NORELEASE_NO - RELEASE_NOSEQUENCE_NO - SEQUENCE_NO In Projection Configuration for “ShopFloorWorkBenchHandling” I can’t select “ShopMaterialAlloc” as Child Entity though it should be an entity known to “ShopFloorWorkBenchHandling”  I already have other tabs in “Shop Floor Workbench” showing Custom Entities where this works fine

Hello, Our company uses the IFS 9.4 application.Is there anyone who has experience with PDM–ERP integration on IFS or who has done this before? As part of our planned integration, we want to automate the following processes:Automatically updating material revisions made in PDM as engineering revisions on the IFS side Automatically transferring the product tree (BOM) from PDM to IFS Automatically creating inventory cards in IFS from PDMWe would like to discuss the details with anyone who has experience in these areas or would like to share their thoughts.You can contact me via LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/muzaffer-%C3%A7okaslan-60477121a/ Thank you in advance. Best regards,Muzaffer Çokaslan

Hello, Our company uses the IFS 9.4 application.Is there anyone who has experience with PDM–ERP integration on IFS or who has done this before? As part of our planned integration, we want to automate the following processes:Automatically updating material revisions made in PDM as engineering revisions on the IFS side Automatically transferring the product tree (BOM) from PDM to IFS Automatically creating inventory cards in IFS from PDMWe would like to discuss the details with anyone who has experience in these areas or would like to share their thoughts.You can contact me via LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/muzaffer-%C3%A7okaslan-60477121a/ Thank you in advance. Best regards,Muzaffer Çokaslan

Hello community,In the cost set 5, i am calculating the cost for a purchased material and copying the cost to cost set 1. Everything looks perfect here. When i do a receipt of the same part, the cost detail is not split by the cost buckets properly. it is only picking the first line from P-140 cost template. For testing purposes, i deleted the cost bucket 140 from P-140 cost template. Then the cost was created with next cost bucket in the template which is 160. Anyone knows how to split the cost properly for inventory transaction receipt?