Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Hi, Is it possible in manufacturing to include an extra paramater to define the capacity, besides hours? In the assembly industry, you often have a big hall where the assembly takes places. Multiple orders take place at the same time. However, not every order needs as much as room as the other.Let’s say our hall is 100m². Order A takes 50m² for 20 hours, order B takes 25m² for 8 hours and order C takes 10m² for 40 hours.We now use 85m² meters of the 100 available. So if could theoritically still plan an order that needs max 15m².Is there an option to visualise this?  

It frequently happens that we have a need to adjust and add same indirect result or clocking for many employees. The ways we have have found always requires this to be entered by each Employee. This is very time consuming when you have a big group of employees. Is there a way to do this more efficient, e.g. mark multiple employees and automatically assign same clocking/result?

In Aurena shop floor workbench, we use predefined filters. One of the workbenches will show the shop orders in card and list view. When you switch to table view it shows no data. What would cause this?

Hi. We keep keeping the same error message when trying to stop production via the shopfloor work bench. The operations have been signed off and there is not inspection sign off.Does anyone know what is causing this? regards Jamie 

Hello, I am attempting to delete an inventory location from IFS, but it states that the location is used in Shop Order Material Allocation. I have not seen this message before and I am wondering how I can search for these 12 items to remove them from the system. Any guidance would be appreciated!   

Hello, I have setup Employee Qualifications setup to prevent unqualified users from clocking into a Shop Order for a specific Part Number. However, I have noticed if an unqualified person logs into any Team, they can clockin and report pieces on a job they are not qualified to run. I have checked the forum and I found a post that seems to indicate this is correct system behavior. However, that seems contradictory, as what would be the point of setting up qualification requirement if you can simply bypass them by joining a random team? Do qualifications not get considered when a user is logged into a team or is there a way to enforce that for Team clocking? Any guidance would be appreciated. 

In a MS Level 1 part in Master scheduling After “Run MS – One Part” or per Scheduled Task changes at Forecast 0 or Forecast 1, a necessary recalculation of new forecast is not given.Would like to know your opinion about this behaviorMS Level 1 partRun MS-one part – the forecast is converted in fixed proposalsModify forecast 1 (entered 20 pcs)No recalculations observed without Run MS-one part Start MS-one part but no recalculations observed, where a recalculation is expectedHowever, after changing date of Calculation Date for example to 1/1/21 and recalculating to actual date it works

I am trying to copy the configuration structure revision and the system is giving me an error “mismatch”please see screen shots.I am in CTO- APP10Thank you 

Hi Team, I need assistance with an error please. The customer is trying to do an “All Levels Part Cost Calculation”The Inventory Part below is a Manufactured part When you execute the “All Levels Part Cost Calculation” for Cost Set 2If I look at the Inventory Transactions History the Total Cost for the part is not in a negative Do you have any idea why the error message would come up, and how would we fix this?

Hello, I have noticed that my PM Calendar Generation has stopped in 2021. Prior to that, the Maintenance Plans were generating without issue. I have checked the Plan, which is set for 2023: The PM Actions are setup with different intervals:The Calendar itself is valid:However, the system has stopped planning them:I have noticed that if I RMB and select regenerate plan, it does work:The scheduled database task is setup with the following parameters, which have not been changed since it was configured originally.  I’m not sure what the issue could be at this point. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Hello!Anyone ever add custom text to screens that are purely informational? There are a few business processes that I’d like to set rules for or reminders to people. Heck, I’d like to even explain the page for people when they visit it. I can’t figure out how to have custom fields or info cards do this.No big deal if it isn’t possible, just thought I’d ask the community if someone else has done it. It’ll save me having to explain how things work for the hundredth time.IFSAPP9 by the way, plans to upgrade to 10 or cloud in next year.

Can we use MRP planned Spare Parts in MS ? I am trying to generate MS forecast for Parts which are Spare Parts . But can we actually use the MRP planned Spares in MS?

I know, it might seem not logical, but I'm trying to get a sense of what the function of the GTIN number is in a Non-Inventory Sales Part.I have added a Free Format GTIN on a Master Part. Let's say R-001If I check the Non-Inventory Sales Part, it shows the R-001 as the GTIN. Nice.When I want to add the sales part to a sales contract > line > item I have an option to search the parts by GTIN. Nice. However it seems only to pickup the Sales Parts (so the inventory related). Same on adding a non-inventory sales part on a work order task.Am I missing something?I can't select upon GTIN in a Customer Order Line that I want to add (there are only the part and description in the find option of sales parts which I think is remarkable low). 

Hi, can any explain what the check box ‘Compress Operations’ does when scheduling operations using operation block below? regardsJamie 

I have a work order where the Dept is populated for Pre Posting. I try to connect the work order to a project activityAfter entering the project activity data, I click on the OK button and get the following error message and the activity is not connected. When I open the Pre Posting window, there is a Dept entered. What do I need to do to connect the activity to the work order? (we are using IFS 9)

When creating a Resource Routing you can right mouse click and ‘Copy Routings from Manufacturing’ . However once the resource routing you cannot then copy , or update. The only way I can do this it to delete the Resource Routing lines then copy again at individual MS level 1  part level.Is there a standard job you can run to update the the resource routings from the current Manufacturing ones?  

HI,I need to remove the finally posted flag on some work task transaction. I reopen the work task andwhen I try to Remove Finally Posted I have an error that all criteria to remove this flag has not been meet.. It seems to me that I do what I can, but...What should I do, please ? 

When I goto Shop Orders - RMB - Tracking - Reserve serials for Shop Order - NewI’m not able to add more than 30 serials, but my shop order quantity is 45 and I need to add 15 more serials.Is there any setting that restricts number of serials in a shop order ?

Hi Community, What are the other places where value in shop order priority category is used other than CBS and APB? BR Champika

I want to know if after purchase order lines have been closed, the system can automatically close the same PO at header level. Thanks

Hi, I am looking for any information or contact or company that uses IFS who has gone through the computer system validation process to meet the regulatory compliance. This is a framework of good practice applies against regulated Pharma and medical device industry.I am looking for information to share their experience and lesson learn during the process against IFS Application.Although this is posted under manufacturing, it can be applied in other area too.Any information will be gratefully received. Thanks.

Good afternoon, Is there anyway to refresh an IFS window automatically? Normally, we do this manually using the little refresh button on top right. We are using IFS 9. Thanks,

Hello,I want to start using a scrap factor for some purchase components. I’ve been testing  the two options.1)Inventory part, planning data , scrap factor field. This looks like it only applies the scrap factor to purchase requirements and PO’s qty. No demand is created, nor does it change the qty available in stock.  2)Change the product structure to include the scrap factor. Adding the scrap factor to the BOM looks like it will create additional demand, reduce the available inventory qty and require purchase action to satisfy the assembly + scrap factor.I don’t see any advantage to using #1 since it will not recalculate the current inventory available qty or shop order demands. I see the only change that will take place is on the purchase order level if a purchase order does exist. Is anyone using the scrap factor in the Inventory part screen with good results?  

Morning we are using IFS APPs 10 and currently reviewing how we plan and schedule our manufacturing shop orders. Currently we run MRP followed by CRP once a week which will generate all purchase and manufacturing requisitions with a mix of dates past due and present.When we convert a requisition we release the shop order straight away (with some dates in arrears) but only when the manufacturing department request replenishment ,to me this seems an incorrect method to adopt.I have prosed that once we run MRP and CRP, review the action messages and are finally happy with the plan and schedule, that we then convert all requisitions to planned for the current month and then release shop order to the manufacturing departments 1 or 2 days before the shop order is planned to start. This way MRP wont reschedule the requisitions each time it runs and will be able to measure the schedule adherence of all manufacturing departments and the accuracy of the planning.The question i have isWill it neg

Hi Using IFS APPs10 and currently reviewing and updating the Manufacturing Labour Classes and wanted to know the system implications from deleting persons from manufacturing labour classes, if any?i.e. will it remove all manufacturing historical reporting data or effect historical shop order costings.regardsJamie