Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

I’m a bit confused with the functional differences between 2 fields in the different Engineering Part Revision Forms. One is “Eng Rev” (or Eng Revision) and the other one is just “Rev No” (or Revision No) In IFS Explorer the first field is described as “The engineering part revision for the selected part. This field cannot be modified. This field is for information only and affects nothing else in the system. “The second one (Rev No) is described as “The internal counter used to keep track of all revisions for a part. For each new revision, the counter is incremented by one. This is used to correctly order part revisions in forms and reports. This field cannot be updated manually.” … yet conceptually I can’t wrap my head around of the difference or how are they supposed to be used in different ways. Anybody can explain this for me? Thanks!

In older versions of IFS, using Shop Floor Employee reporting, there was a function to automatically assign an indirect job to an employee when clocked in for time and attendance. This indirect job was also started automatically when a shop order operation was stopped.Is there a way to solve this in current setup with indirect jobs and Shop Floor Workbench? Our scenario is that we have some warehouse workers where main task is warehouse work (defined as indirect job) but in some cases they also report on shop orders.  We want the indirect job to be automatically assigned and only report deviations from this, e.g. reporting of shop order (start and stop) from SFWB.

Hello We want to implement detail control plan for purchase part and manufacturing part. For manufacturing part, we should input S/N  for each Data Point and each Result No, first step we can sequence Result No by click head and input S/N (1st picture) for 1st result no, then save, but after save, the sequence will be change as per Data Point (2nd picture), which will not easy to input 2nd result no data.Can I always freeze sequence of Result No (or other specify columns）？How can I make it happen? Please help to advice. Thanks for your support.Susan   

Community,I have a part that is a MAKE part, and it is lot controlled. i am trying to build it in a lot 10 quantity via a shop order with multiple lot numbers, so I am trying to register in the shop order with multiple lot numbers. but system only allow one lot at a time. why is that? how to fix this error?attached the error screenshot, you can see the lot 3 is already registered in the shop order but when I am trying to add more lots, thus the error.Thank you.

Hi,  How does “Serial tracking after delivery” only work in cloud?The online documentation refers to “delivery structure” however, I have made tests from Project Deliverables Materials and Services and couldn`t find the possibility of entering serials after the issuing was done to the structure. Thank you in advance! 

Hi, I have tried to calculate the “Expected lead time” but with out success?Here in the community it have several posts about this topic, but I was not able to the calultion as mentioned.Dos some Body could me please help?I have tried this way:Thank you for your support.BRMilanko 

Hi, Does IFS provide an easy overview of overdue DOPs/Shop orders, pegged to a specific customer order?Sales would like to see when a shop order or DOP is scheduled after the planned ship date of the customer order lines, it could show in an overview screen so they see in one go where late deliviries will arise. We have DOP alarms, but there we need a couple of clicks to see the connected customer order. Same as supply chain order analysis: again some actions are needed to see it all. Does IFS provide an overview or do we need to create custom fields? Ideal view: Customer order line, with a field where the finish date of the DOP shows.

Community, Can IFS limit a set of parts read only? Thank you.

Hello All,We use Engineering extensively for our Prod Structures creating and new Engineering rev and transferring to MFG with each structure change. When we transfer a new revision site/inventory data such as Reserve/Issue from Loc is not added to the new revision. Has anyone come up with an easy method of replicating this type of data?TIA

Hi all, i want to create an Repair Shop Order out of the Customer Order. It works, if i want to create a Manufacturing SO, but i need to create a Repair SO (using repair structure + routing).What do i need to do?

Hi team, We have an MRO who receives the engine for repair and, while disassembling it, sometimes determines that engine is beyond economical repair and, therefore, will strip the items to stock.  This will require labor, tools, and the costs involved in disassembly/disposition operations. CRO was created for those items and performed repairs if parts could be repaired. The output of this is that we end up with 10 to 20 parts in stock that are in a serviceable condition that equals the value of the labor, parts, and capital. When performing stripping down the engine and sending items to stock, the assembly side of the Complex assembly MRO work order does not need to be completed. (Only disassembly SO are closing) Can we do this in IFS App10 so we can close CAMRO without completing the assembly section of a work order?What is the most convenient way to perform this strip down to stock using complex assembly work orders? Thank you!

Hi, Trying to use Cumulative Lead Time. We have a simple set-up. A product structure with three Purchase (RAW)  components. They have lead times of 120, 15 & 42 days on SFPP reports. Given a 1 day inspection time we have 121, 16 & 43 on the Expected lead time of the Inventory Part.The Manufactured Part has 40 hours on the routing so showing 5 days as Expected on Inventory Part. Running Cumulative Lead Time - I would have expected  125 days - but it is still only showing 5. Any thoughts. Trying to get lead-times working correctly. I have a thought as to why is is not from some previous posts, but want to see if anyone had unbiased thoughts. Apps 9 UPD17 Thansk, Matt

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to reserve or issue shop orders from a specific inventory location? For example Shop Order 11111 has all required materials at Location SO11111, but we don’t want to issue or reserve the same materials in other Inventory Locations. Thanks in advance

Dear Community,I have a part which I dont want to track in inventory, but I want to track serial number after customer delivery. Documentation page (F1) says it can be done, but I couldn’t figure it out how.  1- I set serial tracking at receipt and issue to no. ‘FALSE’2-I set serial tracking in inventory to no. ‘FALSE’3-I set serial trackinf after delivery to yes. ‘TRUE’ 4- I created a Customer Order and reserved the part. (non-inventory serial tracking but serial tracking after delivery)5- I created a shipment and closed it. In this process, nothing was asked about the serial tracking of the shipped part. Kind RegardsOzgun Bal

Hi , My customer will use a Tool both in Manufactuing(Shop Order) and Service (Work Order)As master level1. we created a [Tool/Equipment] and linked it to [Manufacturing Tool Instance]2. Assinge the Manufacuring Tool to Routing , and create some shop order. while,in Resource Analysis screen,Tools’  “Shop Order Hours” is 0.00.is it specfication of IFS? ※We tried both APP10 and IFS Cloud, same result.  

Community, Currently there is no interface between our PLM Winchill and IFS, so we are using migration job to batch create new Engineering Part. Wondering if it is possible to create new Engineering Part Revision via migration job batch uploading?  Does anyone happen to have this experience creating new Engineering Part Revision via Migration Job?Thank you.

Hello all, I am hoping some has an answer to this IFS system behavior. I have noticed that when I create an Estimate, and then increase the Revision, the system appears to reorder the Estimate Structure.Below is revision 1: Here is revision 2: As you can see it appears to have reordered the part numbers under the structure. This creates quite a bit of confusion when reviewing estimates as everything is now out of order. I have tried resetting and refreshing the node, but it does not correct them. Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 Hi We try to define inspection code per below list requirement per order lot size in control plan, it seems that it only can be defined as same sample size but not depend on order lot size, is it possible to make it happen and how to process?Thanks for your help. Susan 

Dear community, IFS 8 allowed to put specification limits (outer/inner min, outer/inner max) and nominal value on control plans for a data points of type “Attribute”. In VCloud 22R2, it is not allowed.  Is there any configuration that is available that would enable the use of values in the Min and Max fields for a data point of type “attribute”.The goal is to give to the operator the dimensions to meet but the measured value is not fulfilled in the analysis result. We only need to know the number of non-conforming parts. Thanks for your help

We migrated in some customer orders / customer order lines.The lines that are supply code DOP (Release DOP), didn’t create Shop Orders at customer order release.If we go in manually and duplicate the lines, then they create Shop Orders.The only thing we can find wrong with the original lines is that Self Billing wasn’t set (it was NULL).We went in and set them to NOT SELF BILLING.But now we have hundreds of customer orders / lines that are set to Release DOP but don’t have DOP headers.Any idea how to trigger the DOP creation? If I manually create a  DOP Header, I can’t link it (I think because the customer order line is Release DOP).Or any idea of what else could be wrong?

We have an item that is showing available in inventory - this item is on a project and it is a returned item.   The project is closed and the system will not allow us to scrap, transfer to standard inventory or move the item - we get the error “You may only change the inventory quantity balance for an activity that is in status Released or Completed”.  We are also not able to open the project Please help

I know how to create Count reports, is there a way to pick an amount randomly?

Is there a particular way to address the alphanumeric fields while sorting?I feel restricted in effectively sorting my data currently. In the attached screenshot, the alphanumeric fields make it impossible to sort the values in an ascending order.Is my only option then is to use some other header column ? 

We would like to use the “perform putaway” function defined on the work center:  The goal is to have the system perform a putaway via transport tasks into a non-picking location after a shop order is closed.  From there, the material handlers will then move the product to a desired location.  This would need to happen for parts that may or may not be pegged to a customer order.  Other than just checking the checkbox, I am sure there is more configuration needed.  Can someone provide some guidance on how to do this?  Thanks!

We use the option to associate an outbound location to a work center. The work center is used for shop orders (both make to order and make to stock). For make to order shop orders it is not possible to receive finished goods from the work center to the outbound location unless the location is a picking warehouse type. It is not possible to receive mto shop order output in a floor stock location. Reason: in floor stock location one must not receive parts which are reserved.However, we are reluctant to define the outbound location as a picking warehouse type because then the stock on this location could become a target for reservation jobs, manual reservation, or creation of pick list.Has anyone an idea/solution for how to prevent the stock on an outbound location from reservation/creation of picklist (if the location is picking warehouse type) or alternatively how to enable the floor stock type outbound location to receive make to order parts?