Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, How can we most efficently define the time a part needs to dry, but when it is drying it should not be counted as capacity on that work center? We paint a part, and after painting it needs to dry for 1 hour before we can continue with the next operation. However, the drying phase does not take capacity on the painting workcenter. So it should be added to the total lead time, but not take any capacity. We thought of queue time, but that’s for the workcenter itself. Drying time depends on the part.Making another workcenter to dry seems a bit overkill, so I wonder if anyone has another idea? Thanks!Merten

Hi everyone,I’m looking for some help with lot numbering relating to the production process. Our client makes products using an injection mold.The lot number for molded parts is the date they were pressedThe molded parts are further processed (at a later date) into a finished good for sale. However, the customer requires the pressed date from the mold remain as the lot number for the finished good. Is there a way for the shop order that creates the finished good to ‘inherit’ the lot number from the component? The FG product structure is quite simple with the molded part as the only component.  Thank you

If you use ABC class for daily cycle counting how do you know if all A class parts will get counted throughout  the year? Also if you want all A class parts to be counted for example 4 times a year how do you know if every A class part will get counted 4 times a year?

Hi all,after  Reserve and issuing components we get following error receiving assembly.If we unissue and unreserve we get no message receiving the shop order.What the reason for this behaviour?Thanks in advance Alberto 

Community,borrow your mind, would like to know why my shop order cannot be released, though I think everything is set up correctly. the days i believe it is calendar days.please refer to the screenshot attached. Thank you.

Customer is producer of returnable plastic packaging for material handling (plastic crats). On the shop floor they have several machines that place the molded parts directly on a conveyer belt. The belt transports the product to packaging department where the product is placed on a “carrousel”.Employees on the packing department take the products of the carrousel and put them on a pallet. The products have no identification at this time and sometimes very similar products are produced at the same time with the result that they are not correctly labeled when the pallet is full. (the print their handling unit stickers in advance for the running shop orders). On a regular basis the wrong identification is placed on a pallet. Question from the customer: Does IFS have customers with a similar process that found a solution to prevent these kind of mistakes?

Hi, I am getting an error when trying to overtake method “Timman_Job_Trans_API.Get_Rem_Pending_Abs_Hrs” .Tried with ‘$SERCH and $REPLACE ’ and ‘$TEXTSERCH and $TEXTREPLACE ’  to  avoid  a full overtake but system throws an error for both.I belive the  return parameter of type PIPELINED is causing this error but not sure. I would like to know if there is a way to avoid this Error and do a partial overtake   ?Thanks!  

Hello, we’re using apps 10 Aurena. It appears there is no batch address change function for customer order lines, but this feature exists in IEE for apps 10. Is there another way to do this? It will be a  heavily used function for us and we only use Aurena. 

Hello together,I want to create a configuration part in Aurena. As follows how I created the things:Features Configuration familiy Inventory part Article Part configuration revision - here I tried to connect the “configuration family” with the artice, but I can not find out how this works in AurenaIs somebody familiar with this issue? Thx Markus

Anyone an idea why I don't see the following fields being filled with an amount?I've purchased this engineering part revision (EPR) multiple times. Received and moved the inventory in stock. PO has status Closed, so according to me handled ok. EPR Provide code is Buy.I didn't perform a transfer from the EPR to inventory part, so manually changed the revision on the inventory part to the active EPR revision id.Also after this change, no change on the purchase amounts in the EPR.I've done a couple of cost updates on the EPR. No results.Thanks in advance.

Community, wondering what is the best practice for below scenario.we have a purchased part, that come with multiple revisions, that transferred from engineering. please refer to screen shots 1064794.jpg. you can see 3 revisions (Eng Rev 0,1,2 accordingly) are available and not end dated.When purchase order is placed, system always use the latest inventory part revision and not allowed to change. for part 1064794, it always be Rev. 3. Now comes the issue, how I could let supplier know I still would like to purchase the previous revision, e.g. 1. please see the screenshot Purchase Rev cannot be changed.jpg.I realized there is a column called ‘Pre Part Rev’, which could be the one I want, please see the screenshot ‘Pre Part Rev.jpg’.what is the best practice for this scenario?  Thank you.

IFS Cloud:When in HR Schedule there is any change on the availability of the employee belonging to a specific labor class (and the Employee has the check box “Use HR Schedule” enabled”, we can clearly see on the Visual CRP, the result of what has been done in HR Schedule (the availability for that specific labor class is reduced by one day if we have defined a day of vacation for the employee in the HR Schedule), but the work center that is allocated to the operation that cannot be performed by that employee is still loaded. What to do in such case? How to align the work center workload in case when we have only that employee who can perform that job? Is it possible to manually reduce the capacity of the work center? Seems not….seems that the only way is represented by the creation of a calendar and a schedule per each one of the different work centers.Is there anyone who could give me some hint? :)Thx a lot in advance

Apps10 Upd11Working in a Weighted Average, Cost per Part world.When a shop order is created, how are the estimates determined for buckets other than 110 (estimated material)?What is used to determine the Estimated Level and Accumulated Cost for buckets such as 200, 201, 300, 321, 322, 400, and 421?

The functionality is Operations Block and the field in question is “Resource Share”field.IFS is using only “2” decimals and the customer needs to enter in “3” decimals . If we use 3 decimals in Resource Share, IFS is rounding up and giving us over capacity in Advance Planning Board.Ex: If we use 0.125 in Resource Share field, Advance Planning Board rounds it up to 0.13 and capacity goes over in work center.Is there a way to have Advanced Planning Board do the calculations with 3 digits and not round up the number to 2 digits?

2 questions on the advanced planning board Does the APB consider Shop Order Priority Categories and prioritize accordingly? Can the APB use characteristic sequencing during automatic scheduling when loading shop orders and/or during scheduled batch loading, or is the only way to use sequencing a manual process within APB? 

when a shop order is re - opened how does the standard functionality work for the close date ? Does it get cleared automatically ? Or does the last close date remain as it is until the shop order is been closed again (in IFS 7.5 and upwards) ?

Hi, Does anyone know of a way to restrict Shop Floor workers from Closing out an operation from the Shop Floor Workbench? 

Hi All, Surprisingly, I can’t appear to find any topics on this within the forum.  My client is a food producer of time limited perishable items (such as dairy). In IEE IFS plans in a day by day format. If you have a multi level structure, say 4 levels, this could potentially mean a 5 day lead time on the Top level component which is not ‘’real world’’.This all needs to be planned on the same day (all materials are available on site). This doesn’t refer to a situation when a material needs purchased and the lead time to get it in is 10 days. My question is, Intraday (sameday) Planning is Active in Cloud and covers this scenario. Has there been any work on Intraday in Aurena that can be utilised?  Thanks in advance. 

Dear IFS Community,A prospect of ours is creating vehicles that must comply with the EASA POA regulations. They are looking to use IFS Cloud for their manufacturing process but have also asked if and how they can bring the support for POA regulations into IFS Cloud?  In this way it's one single system instead of having to maintain a manufacturing system and a kind of quality system for the EASA regulations.Their designin is done in a separate system/unit so the DOA is not required to be in IFS. Maintenance is a discussion for the future.Any help is welcome on how to support the POA in IFS Cloud :)Cheers,Stephan 

HiCan you by configuration set system so that characteristic values from Main Part would be automatically copied to Inventory and Purchase Part or is it a modification. 

Greetings, IFS Community. Sometimes, when we right-click on a line, the following pop-up window appears. The behavior does not occur on all lines, only on one or two.  Occasionally, when I right-click, the following window appears.  What is the reason for this window pop up to appear? Any idea why? 

Hi, We have a scenario where a contractor comes in to do some work on a shop order. However, it doesn’t really matter when he does the job. Once he can start, the PR may be sent. In the meanwhile, we continue the operations on the SO. When he can do the job, he can do it.example:We have a SO with 20 operations. As soon we reach Operation 5, the contractor can come. In the meantime we continue with operation 6, 7, 8, 9,… untill the end. One time the contractor will come at operation 8, other time at 10, etc. Doesn’t matter. How can we easily do this in IFS? With the outside operation, our part is ‘blocked’ untill the operation is done. Making a manual PR doesn’t connect the cost with the SO. 

We are in Apps9 Update 13.  When using Mass Update Shop Order structure on a SO assembly part with 20+ characters, the job errors.  It’s fine with 18 or 20 but over 20 and it falls down.   ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too smallORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.SHOP_ORD_UTIL_API", line 11747ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.SHOP_ORD_UTIL_API", line 11792ORA-06512: at line 1ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 1454ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 692ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.SHOP_ORD_UTIL_API", line 11747ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.SHOP_ORD_UTIL_API", line 11792ORA-06512: at line 1ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 1454ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 692ORA-06512: at "IFSAPP.TRANSACTION_SYS", line 1239 Is this a ‘known k

When attempting to Execute Transport Task an error message appears that says “ the quantity reserved for part *** on site *** at location **** should not be negative” I am not able to execute or delete TT.  How do i fix this? thanks!  

How can I access any. documentations how each manufacturing modules work? Where can I get any user guide specific for manufacturing?