Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

I have a question regarding recipe structure and wondering if anyone has seen a similar scenario and has recommendations? Raw materials are purchased in kg. BOM also calls for mixing of these by kg (or grams). Some of the materials contain bacteria. At goods inwards this bacteria level is measured (CFU/g). The BOM is based on the suppliers quoted minimum CFU/g. However, in most cases the suppliers will deliver to a higher concentration (meaning less kg are required to achieve the desired concentration level). The result is that the BOM must be recalculated and adjusted on each shop order, depending on the CFU/g of the available raw materials. Raw materials are potentially expensive, so it does not make sense to issue more than required CFU. This also creates an issue for MRP / planning as CFU is not known and plan is only based on kg. When adjustments are made too late, this can cause sudden changes in material availabi

Hi,  My customer is looking for the possibility to have a multilevel configured structure for a Shop order, but where phantom parts are still present. I know Manufacturing structure screen allow the user to get the full multilevel mBOM, yet it is not a configured mBOM.On DOP header, there is also a multilevel mBOM, which is configured, yet phantom parts are not visible (because they’re phantoms). Does someone know if a report that would generate the following bom can be built ? : Multilevel BOM Configured BOM  Phantom parts are visibleI think this would be helpful for others too !

Hello, I have noticed that when I’m in a table view in Aurena and I sort by latest created date, the system does not properly sort the Creation Time. It appears to do earliest time stamp to latest, which is the opposite of how IEE works. Is there a way in Aurena to sort by created date/time? This view is quite confusing, as you’re now sorting by latest date and then reading the results in reverse. Any guidance would be appreciated.   

Hi, In our DOP structure, shop orders for the same parts will arise on different levels, with different need dates. IFS creates all these seperately. Is there a setting which tells IFS to create the Shop orders once, at the earliest due date with a lot size that can cover the needs for the complete DOP? A bit like MRP planning method G. Thanks! 

I have created a Quick Report (Crystal Report) that uses the Azalea Code 39 barcode.  When running the report with the barcode in it the report fails with the message: Failed to retrieve the report.  Please contact your system administrator.    If I remove the barcode from the report the report runs without any errors. Please advise.

Hi, In Shop order process type system seems to be counting calendar days for no of days before start date  and is not taking the site manufacturing  calendar into account.Is this the intended way it should work and are there any settings related to this?We are on IFS10 upd14 /Anna

Hi community,The Material Status was resolved but cannot complete Manual Received because of this prompt message. Please help; thanks.  

Hello,Is it possible to set up a system to backflush all raw materials/components that are used for Shop Order production when receiving on SO less quantity then planned?E.g. Shop Order lot size = 1000        Component required = 1000        Receiving from SO = 990        I have a backflush flag set up, but instead of backflushing qty 990 of my component (according to what I receive), I would still like to backflush the total component quantity as planned 1000.

One of the customers am working with have observed the following. Would request your assistance to help solve this issue. Note the customer is running application 9. The system is retrieving costs erroneously from Standard Costing for Employee Category when it should be using costs from the labor class. Flow to re-create the issue: 1. Have labor class set up for both run time and overhead costs. 2. Have employee set up for Employee Category General. 3. Have Standard Costs set for Employee Category General different than labor class so you can be sure what the system is doing. 4. Make sure that Company Details for Company i.e X are not checked to use Employee Costs. (This would be the signal to use Standard Cost) 5. Make sure that Site is not Checked for Override Employee Costs This determines which labor class costs the system should use. 6. Then report time for emp

Is it possible in IFS APP 10 to changes status of an MRB Case from Completed to Open to modify notes if tied to a closed shop order?

Hello  Is there a work instruction for serialization of purchase parts please? We would like to trial this for a few purchase parts in our test environment.  The parts will be used assembly of a rail grinder.  Thanks 

Hi,We would like to create a shop order, but we want to clarify that the material cost will not be included in the shop order cost because all materials will be supplied by the customer. We will only be charging for the cost of making the product. The customer will be sending us the raw materials, which we will store in our inventory. As a result, we also need to receive all inventory items without a price or with a minimum price.Therefore, I would like to request an expert opinion on how we can best manage this process. Any guidance or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for your assistance.

Our internal store material requests follow a process of Material Requisition on IFS. However, we cannot reserve material beyond the current stock levels set by the stores' mix-max levels in IFS. Automated orders are generated only when stock levels reach the minimum threshold. Is there a way to reserve more than the stock level to fulfill current material needs along with stores' maximum levels, so that orders are automatically placed?

Community,wondering whether it is feasible in IFS to make the shop order status “Started”, but there is no material actually issued to the shop order? Thank you. 

How can we debug order report ?I ran the report, data is populating to RPT table, but not writing to XML.I want to check the step by step execution of RPI. Please suggest 

There have been multiple posts in which the logic behind the Sched Capacity on the Inventory Part has been presented and what happens when Finite vs. Always Finite is used.This post is questioning how a user is supposed to load data into the APB when manufactured components are either Finite or Always Finite. Customer has the following product structure:P/N 100 P/N 200 (QPA = 30) P/N 200 is always manufactured in lot sizes of 8 and each shop order takes 1 day (8 hours) to process its lone operation.5-day work week M-F, 8-hour days, 8 AM - 4 PM no breaks.There are (4) shop orders for component p/n 200, and each is scheduled to end on Day1, Day2, Day3, and Day4 respectively. These have been APB Scheduled and saved to the database.I have multiple shop orders for p/n 100 that consist of only one operation.When loading and scheduling only the shop orders for p/n 100 I

Hi All.Tomra Collection is looking for additional Consultancy assistance within “Configure To Order” related to our existing running business and to the upgrade project from IFS9 to IFSCloud.Tomra’s manufacturing facilities are located in Norway but we have Offices around the world. If anyone could guides us to an experienced consultant we would be really thankful. Br Per Hermansen   

Hi,While creating Estimate with estimate wizard I am getting an error like “The Multilevel Tracking “Tracking Off” does not exist.”I am trying to create an estimate with product which is an existing part. We don’t use multilevel tracking on parts, so multitracking is off by default on part catalogue. But even after I turned multilevel tracking on at master part, I still get the same error. We are using IFS Apps 10 Update 8. Does anyone have any idea about what might be causing this error?Thanks,Taner

Hi All, We’re noticing some inconsistencies in the productivity values showing in the operation statistics screen.  Do we know the formula used (and which columns these are derived from) for ‘Labor Productivity’ & ‘Machine Productivity’ so we are able to analyse data and improve our reporting. Thanks in advance for your help Alex

Hello all, I was curious if it is possible to see who created, pick, and executed a transport task? I am looking to implement this for offsite moves, but I believe the information tied back to a user would help to address any incorrect processing issues. I haven’t seen anything in the system that would clearly show any of this info. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I am trying to create a Custom Event in IFS 8 - “CRO Receive Part” to Display an Alert if a user tries to save when the Serial No on the Receive does not match the one on the “Component Repair Order”.I am able to use Error_Sys.Record_General to display a message  and force the user to go back, however, sometimes it is OK that the Serial No is different. I would like the user to be able to Click ‘Cancel’ to go back and ‘Continue’ if it is OK. I have tried to use Client_Sys.Add_Info and Client_SYS.Add_Warning, but they do nothing.What am I missing? DECLARE  CURSOR cro_line_cursor  IS  SELECT clt.cro_no, clt.line_number, clc.cf$_reported_serial_no serial_no    FROM cro_line_tab clt        ,cro_line_cft clc   WHERE clt.rowkey = clc.rowkey     AND clt.cro_no = '&NEW:CRO_NO'     AND line_number = '&NEW:LINE_NUMBER'     AND contract = '&NEW:CONTRACT';BEGIN  FOR cro_line_re

Hello,is there a way in IFS how to not allow users to release DOP according to some condition on inventory part?? On inventory part we have characteristics and let say one attribute of characteristics is mandatory, let's call it DN. And if we use this inventory part in DOP head and the parameter is not filled, has no value, users should not be able to release DOP. The system should tell them info message about not filled attribute of characteristic. I don't know how to create stop event on logical unit DopHead and checking the conditions on logical unit InventoryPartChar. Any clue?ThanksJanIFS version 10 update 8

Hi, When parts are received being connected in a DOP with a pegged order, they are automatically reserved. Afterwards, if we create the pick list, the parts reserved are also there. We don’t want that, they can be backflushed. It contaminates our pick lists :) How can we exclude these parts from the pick list? They are all on the some location.  

Can someone tell me why, when creating a new cost element with source element 501, the factor 100% cannot be changed?

How do I create a Work Center with multiple Resources? If I want to create a Work Center that has 4 identical machines (resources), how would I create this work center?