Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

I’m trying to set-up our system to use the Kanban Feature in IFS. Is there a Guide or a thorough walk through available to guide me along this journey?

What report can I create to see my monthly scrap rate? I want to be able to see the amount of starting material and what amount was scrapped. 

This warning message appears when trying to make a Product Structure buildable, only appearing for some new Structures not all.  I have tried to recreate warning message in my test environment by adding phantom parts to new Product Structure but won’t work.  

Hello, In a material requisition, the calendar used for the due date is the distribution calendar indicated in the site settings. We don’t understand the logic of using the distribution calendar. We should use the manufacturing one or at least, be able to select the calendar you want to use  Are we the only one to think that ? Do you think that could be an improvement in the future ?  Regards 

Hi!Our users have noticed that in their previous version it was fine to receive from a shop order into an inbound location of type Production Line. It looks like it was still the case in the Apps 10 version we have access to, so it seems to have been introduced with the IFS Cloud version. Nowadays only Floor Stock and Picking locations are possible, wich will cause them pretty big changes in routines, since organizing the shop floor into production lines has been a key factor in controlling the reservation of material from the right locations. What motivates this change?/ Kenneth

Hello, has anyone had to deal with this problem? We have lots of different parts that use the same raw material and are all manufactured using the same machine. To make an efficient process, we would like to “batch” all the shop orders that use a specific component so we can make those parts in one hit. Then “batch” another set of shop orders that use a different raw material and make those. These manufactured parts are then used to make another assembly.OP Blocks doesnt seem to fit this scenario as we are not wanting to batch operations but batch at the shop order level.And because we making a large qty of the parts that use the raw material, we would prefer to book labor at the batch level not on each individual shop order and let IFS apportion the labor across all the shop orders in that batch.Grateful for any comments, etc. Thanks in advance. This is being done in Cloud.

Community, Wondering what is the best practice to pass the PED documents (Drawing, QC, Purchasing docs) to downstream, i.e. purchasing, manufacturing, logistics? Thank you.

"I hope it is correct and going in one direction."On the Site (Application Base Setup - Enterprise - Site - Site - Manufacturing)we can set default values for Approve Operation Qty to Report TimeValues for Approve OperationSettings (Application Base Setup - Enterprise - Site - Site - Manufacturing) 

I’m attempting to schedule an operation following an outside service operation. I want to schedule the operation to start as soon as the outside service operation is complete and there is capacity available.  The outside op has an 8 week lead time, but it was sent out 6 weeks ago and are expecting it back in 2 weeks. The PO attached to it for example has an arrival date of 8/12. The operation I want to schedule could start on the 15th.  When I schedule it as early as possible in APB, the system thinks it still needs a full 8 weeks, so the operation isn’t scheduled until 8 weeks from today. Can APB recognize arrival dates on outside service PO’s? Are there any solutions to scheduling shop orders with outside service operations? Thanks,Eric

Hello IFS Community, We have the following scenario at our company:2 Work CentersWork Center 1 can build 90% of our part numbers Work Center 2 can build 60& of our part numbers Not all parts from WC1 can be build at WC2 and vice versa. So when we want to level our capacities, we encounter issues with APB or any automated planning method. What is the ideal solution here? If we create routing alternates for the parts that are able to be build in both WCs, would this solve our issue? Would APB be able to see that there is an alternate when capacity is full at one WC and plan at the other?  I noticed this field in Shop Order Operation: Preferred Resource. Is this only a SO OP field or could this be attached to a Part number level? Because in this case, I would control everything through 1 work center with 2 resources.  Thanks for your input!A.P.

I performed a search for a specific work center in Labor Load Details, but the visualizer returned various work centers not included in the search and their respective loads.  The data does not show in the data table. Any ideas on why various work centers are displaying that are not included in my search criteria? I’m also missing the capacity level.  I performed the calculate labor capacity for manufacturing and ran CRP.   

Community, which window could show below info between supplier and customer no? 

Hello Community,Does someone know how to connect Tools to Machine Downtimes? I would like to be able to not only see the downtime cause, but also the tool when checking Machine Downtime History List.Thank you,Alina

Hello, I am looking to see if there is a way within IFS to automatically initiate a Transport Task between two Sites. Essentially, I have a part that is produced in Site A. However, we store it in Site B. I was hoping that this could be accomplished with Putaway Zones and Remote Warehouses, but it appears that will only work in a single Site. I already have the Inventory Part record setup for Site B, so the act of manually transferring parts works, but an automated Transport Task would be much more efficient than having users monitor the locations and I do not see Distribution Orders as being a practical solution for this (PP, SFPP, etc.). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Community,We had a request from PLM team, how we could disable the document requirement though it is set up in the Doc Req Profile? in other words, see below screenshot, if P_EQUIP is set up in Doc Req Profile field, it is mandatory to upload 3 document class as listed below. I am sending this post to see the opportunity to disable this requirements though they are set up in Doc Req Profile field. Thank you. 

 Search an EntityI need to search for the Entity within the Entity Configuration section.Entity ConfigurationThe name of the Entity is there …Entity nameAdd Custom Attribute in ProdStructureClick on +Define Custom Attribute TypeCustom Attribute TypeDefine Imple

I have product that is MS Scheduled as it is forecasted.  It does not have a ‘buildable’ structure as it is only made as by-product of other parts.  There are plenty of Shop Orders that will make this part as by-product but they are not showing up as Supply in IPAP.

 Unpublish process in Entity Configuration and Delete attributeUnpublish existing configuration.Picture 1: Unpublish existing configuration.Remove All Custom DataPicture 2: Remove All Custom DataDisapprove Custom AttributePicture 3: Disapprove Custom AttributeDelete selected record.

In the documentation for About Disassembly Cost Calculation, in the second example it states:Gen OH = ((Mtrl1 Est Cost+ Mtrl2 Est Cost+ Mtrl2 Est Cost * Mtrl2 Del OH + Machine Cost+MOH1+ MOH2+ Mtrl1 Est Cost * Mtrl OH) * OH factor) / (1 - Scrap factor).To result with the values listed in the table for MK-DISASS1 and MK-DISASS2 of 351.94 and 234.63 you would need to use an OH Factor of 15% and 10%, respectively. These values, however, are not listed anywhere in the diagram.What should be used for the OH Factor, highlighted in the equation above?

What would cause the Structure default not populate on a shop order?  

Apps10IEEScenario: Shop order operation is for a quantity of 10. Emp 1 will complete 6 and Emp 2 will complete 4. They cannot be part of a static team (I think) because they normally would not work on the same shop order at the same time. They will probably start and finish at different times.We just purchased SFWB licenses. I am making sure we are doing this the most efficient way possible. So far I have:Emp 1 Starts ProductionEmp 2 Uses Modify Ong Op to join the operationEmp 1 uses Approve Op and changes Qty to Report to 6 and does not close operation and does not stop clockings because Emp 2 is still working on the operation.Emp 1 then uses Modify Ong Op to leave the operation.Is there any way for Emp 1 to report a qty complete and leave the operation at the same time instead of doing it in two steps as I have above?Thanks

Hi ,Could someone please tell me whether IFS Product Bid Management can be used to Service related Business to estimate the Service of the Customer Products in IFS Cloud 22R2. RegardsLokesh

When trying to change a part to Serialized not in inventory, I get a hard stop error message, Part exists on a purchase order line.  How do I resolve?

Few important concerns related to the CRO process in IFS Cloud has mentioned below.  01. The customer mentions that the company he/she sends the Part to( which was sent through the Customer Order) , would want to cancel/delete the CRO Exchange because the part has been damaged or scrapped. If so how can it be done without receiving the Part back?02. Since the Part is Customer Owned, the company will scrap the Part. In that case how can the CRO exchange status Could be changed from the customers end?03. Further He mentions that CRO Exchange created with a Part that’s "Customer Owned" and Exchange Code = “Single Swap” > Customer receives the item via customer order (dispatched quantity = 1) and “Dispatch Approved” = “No” > Via Operation “Scrap at Customer” is performed --> Qty Scrapped at Customer = 1 is there but even though its scrapped as mentioned in Point.No.03 > the CRO exchange status is still In Exchange. 

We recently received a report from one of our customers regarding a critical issue in their production environment concerning a user.it appears that the issue is linked to the maximum number of roles enabled, reaching a limit of 148. Solution: I suggested to the client that reducing the MAX_ENABLED_ROLES to below 148 could resolve the problem.Problem: customer has expressed difficulty in reducing the assigned roles for this particular user.They've explained that current role structure involves end user roles, each linked to various functional roles. Changing these end user roles would impact multiple users, making it an impractical solution. Question:Please ca