Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

We are upgrading from IFS7.5 to IFSv10 update 10 and evaluating whether the manufacturing visualizer add-on package is worth it.  We manage shop order operations to even load an infinite schedule using CRP load charts in our current state.  Most of our shop orders are configured, so it drives high volumes of shop order operations to manage.  What benefits (tangible and/or intangible) has your company realized and would you recommend investing in the add-on visualizer?  (For example, efficiency, inventory management, yield, tool optimization, etc.)If you didn’t add on the visualizer, what tools are you using to manage higher volumes of shop order operations to optimize your schedule? 

Hi, What is the purpose served by the data in the tab Sub MS Receipts in MS L1 part?  How are the records created in this tab? the dates doesn’t have intervals either. pls can someone explain ? Thanks in advance !Yashodha 

Hi,We would like to start using manufacturing control plans in our PROD env. The requirement is to have the analysis created every 2 hours for currently produced batch number (as all of our parts are under batch control). The issue is that if we use trigger to run every 2 hours system generates analysis for ALL batch numbers in the same time (not only for the currently produced one) no matter if the batches had been already completed to stock or not. Any suggestion how could we solve it?In help we can read: “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”. Do You think that manual should be used in our case? If so – any suggestions how to do it?Best regards,Bernadeta

I am in the process of translating a manufacturing process into IFS and am wondering if there’s a best approach to simplifying the solution. We have a manufacturing process where the manufactured part is both serialised and lot tracked, it starts processing in a lot size of 600, then drops to 200, 20 and eventually individual parts as it moves along the routing. As the part is serialised you have to select each serial individually when performing a shop order split, and as it’s a manually selected slider per-serial it could end up being time consuming. Does anyone have any alternate solutions to speeding up the lot splitting process? We are working Cloud 23R1.

We are transitioning to IFS10 IEE and currently we have users who can select from Material Actions either Manual Issue or Manual Unissue from the shop order in SFWB, Are there a presentation and/or database objects that allows for the Issue/Unissue options that we need to grant? Has this option been changed in IFS10 to the Material tab and the part number selected?Thank you.

I’m looking for definition of the Shop Order WIP Calculation in 22R2.We are trying to reconcile a variance between IFS and and the customer’s old system. Version is 22R2 SU1.

Community, Wondering below window, the column I highlighted, does it really play a role or just info purpose only. for example,  Parent Part No, will the alternate component will be limited to Parent Part No in this window? Thank you. 

Hi!I´m getting following error when trying to add new shop floor employee. Person is created and added without any problem under Company/Employee already as normally but when trying to add Shop floor employee following error comes: 

Hi- Is there any option to automatically release pegged shop orders in Apps 9. Thanks 

<The order in which items are displayed when the search box is opened(IFS9)>1.What is the order in which items are displayed when a search box is opened by pressing the shortcut key F3?2.Is it possible to specify the order in which items are displayed when a search is opened?

Hello,Let me know which procedure can do this. I have some problems about shop order status, so i have to check procedure but i did not found anywhere. Is there a debug or something i mean in APB?Best regards.

How can we notify warehouse staff to deliver parts to production floor? We think sending a material requisition would work but I don’t know. We want to send the notification to the warehouse for specific part number to be delivered to the production floor for a specific Shop Order being assembled. Is this a task, kanban or material req?Any suggestions?Thank you,

Hi, In the DOP releasing process, where we net everything, IFS will take parts on a arrival location into account and will not create additional PR’s for these parts.However, the parts on the arrival location are not netted or reversed, which means that if they move into stock they could be used for every other order as well. Is there any way to go around this issue? Thanks!  

I set a Purchase Requisition Authorization Rule.I define a Routing Template and use it in my rule.In this Routing Template I have 3 steps for Authorizing, A group one and 2 single steps. I set an event for it. I create  a Purchase Requisition according to the conditions of this rule.After Releasing the Purchase Requisition I expect that the event will be send to each steps according to sequence of step numbers.But it is sent for all steps at the same time without consideration of sequences.Does anybody face this bug?

We are transitioning from IFS9 to IFS10 and are wondering what the equivalent process steps are to Finalize Shipment.  We do not see the menu option when we RMB in the shipment header or the line.Searching presentation objects by component and database objects no “finalize” elements are returned, but are available in IFS9 when doing similar search.Is it now a separate process, different term? Thank You

Hello all, I’d like advice on how to manage this situation in IFS Cloud.We buy SS sheets of 20 ft2, however we use 16 ft2 of the sheet. The issue we currently have is the sheet is purchased in ft2 UoM and the BOM is listing 16 ft2 for production. Hence the production consumes 16 ft2.That said, the remaining 4 ft2 of the 20 ft2 sheet is not necessarily scrap (it can be used for smaller parts or on other BOM).The problem is, when consuming many 16 ft out of 20 ft, the remaining 4 ft2 are cummulating, showing in IFS the total inventory in ft2. So manufacturing could believe we have 16 ft2 to manufacture, when in reality we have 4x 4 ft2, not usable for this BOM (but usable for other BOMs).How can/should this be managed in IFS? I feel our way is not correct, but I’m unsure of the correct way.Thank you!

Hi, I would like to change the button text on the time clock (time clock in production). However, the default time clock that we are using is in English, but the buttons get translated to the local language. Where can I find these translations and change them? So If i change the text in ‘Time Clock Type Details’, it doesn’t do a thing as it gets translated anyway.It could be an option to block the translation, as we use 1 language anyway.  

Hi.Why IFS delete the cost set 1 from the Work Center if you are copying an inventory part cost from, for example, from cost set 2 to 1 and one the work centers do not have the cost set 2? I tested this case in  IFS 9, IFS 10 and Cloud. I think this is a BUG because the Cost Set 1 is the unique mandatory cost set. I tested this case in  IFS 9, IFS 10 and Cloud. 

When viewing component parts on the Product Structure page the Component Part column is formatted like: “Part Number - Description”. When you export to Excel, this column is formatted the same way. We would like a dedicated column for Part Number, and a dedicated column for Description. Is there a way to achieve? Thanks

When defining a “Max Weight or Max Volume” to the handling unit, how it works in WADACO? What are the steps need to follow to ensure these Weight and Volume triggers are working correctly in WADACO

Our company recently migrated IFS from IFS8 to IFS Cloud (?). To keep the same functionality when working with documents as in IFS8, we have to install the Aurena Agent. I installed both parts of the Aurena, the Extension in Chrome and the part that has to be installed on the PC. Installation was successful, and i can see the IFS Logo at the Chrome extension and in the Task bar of the PC. The extension is active and it has access to the relevant server where IFS is running. So far everything seems ok! But when i look in the User settings of IFS it looks like that:Everything greyed out, nothing accessible, and it says that the Aurena Agent is not properly installed!Does anyone have an idea?

Customer Query: In the previous version of IFS (IFS APP 9), the expense reference from from the expense sheet was pulled though onto the Invoice Comments in project transactions, however since IFS10 it has been pulling through onto the Internal Comments section which means this needs to be copied and pasted to Invoice Comments screen if it is required on the invoice. Ideally we would like all Expense References to be pulled through onto Invoice Comments so they are visible on invoices.Please can you tell me if this is possible in IFS10?

Hello, I want to unpeg an order that is on the customer order lines, but when I unpeg, the supply code becomes IO. I want it to be ND. How can I do it?   

Hi everyone,Our customer is working on IFS Cloud 22R1.They set up data under "Supplier for Purchase Part" screen. They set purchased part price together with charge price such as logistic costs under Charges Tab. Supplier Invoice is set as "Self-Billing"under this supplier master data to create supplier invoice automatically. When user creates purchase order for this supplier and specifies this purchase part, the system creates an invoice automatically with the price of purchase part but charge amount is not reflected into the invoice as another line.They expects to create a supplier invoice automatically which includes both purchase part price and charge price by separate line in the invoice based on the setting of supplier for purchase part. Is there any way to manage their requirement?Thanks in advance,

We are using planning method A for the majority of our parts and have so far been updating the safety stock manually.I see in the help that the automatic update of safety stock is possible with planning methods B and C. Why is that? And is there any way we can use it for planning method A?Regards,Basil