Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

In Aurena I noticed that I get an error when the alpha value of a part contains a '?’.Any idea if there are any other characters that can't be used?Before:Now trying to insert a ? at the end of the attribure value and pressing Save:Is this truely programmed as such?

In IFS Cloud I am able to create a Prototype Shop Order, produce a serialized part, receive it into inventory and reserve it on a Customer Order. Is it normal? I don’t think it is correct that a prorotype could be sold, furthermore with the same price of a normal item.Could anyone explain me if there is any setting to prevent this scenario?Thanks a lotStefano

I want to do an monthly report with work in progress data from shop orders.What is the nice way to get it done ?The costs under the Shop Order costs page are reliable for this purpose ? 

We use standard cost which we calculate every month.Is it possible to automate so new parts automatically is calculated once they are released? So only calculate standard cost on parts where it is zero.Is there standard functionality to achive this? It would be perfect if we got an automated report daily saying “These parts are calculated today and here is the result” Any input is appreciated!

Hi,Is there a possibility in APP10 to see the complete manufacturing lead time over all production stages?

Hi, We are using manufacturing modules with configured parts. The setup for the inventory parts : Weighted average for the purchased parts Standard cost, per configuration for manufactured partsAt the creation of the shop order, the standard cost is calculated using the structure information.I have a question regarding the standard cost update :We may have a time lap between the shop order creation and the shop order process. So if the components parts costs are updated (eg.: variance of the purchased price) I would like to update the standard cost and include the component parts costs, into the inventory value.I have already setup a migration job, to update the shop order costs. But this migration job, doesn’t update the standard cost.Do you have any inp

Hi all, I am hoping to clarify an item regarding component qty per assembly in IFS Product Structures. In our environment, we laser cut sheet metal. When setting up the Product Structure, I was hoping to confirm that I am configuring them properly. Below is the current setup I am hoping to validate:Component part: Qty per Assembly - 3(lb)This is essentially the part weight (3lb). Reading the help, that is my assumption as to how it should be setup. I need 3lb of material to produce my part. 1lb of it is the scrap skeleton that is left over after laser cutting the part out.By-Product:steel scrap - 1(lb)This is the skeleton of the part that is left over. In total 4lb of material is used: 3lb is the part and 1lb is the scrap as a result of the laser process, which is then sold. Any guidance eon the setup would be greatly appreciated! 

Refer to the below scenario Site settings (Refer Image 1)  Reserve material (Automatic reservation) The material reservation has been done from the stock which doesn’t have a handling unit. Even though the highest priority of inventory automatic reservation is given to ‘Earliest Expiration Data’ as in the first image, the system doesn’t reserve quantity from the inventory having the earliest expiration date. The system reserves from the stock having no HU.  (Refer Image 2) However, when the ‘Handling Unit Optimization’ is unchecked in the site setting, the application behaves as intended. Why does the system reserve from stock with no HU when the settings are as above? 

 Dear sirs;How can I solve the error above on APP10 ?Regards;Susumu  

We have discovered that a manual Unissue of Materials from a Shop Order effectively recalculates the Expiration date on the Inventory Part In Stock record.We have a Durability Days value on the Inventory Part. When I unissue the Lot/Batch, the Inv Part in Stock record appears to calculate an expiry date based on this Receipt (back into Stock) as today + durability days, rather than against the original PO Arrival date. Before I fire this off the IFS support, is this correct behaviour? We don’t think so! We are old-school - IFS2003 (sorry!)

Community,We are implementing multisite now. so for our project delivery shop orders, semi-finished products will be manufactured in different sites, once they are received into the stock, they suppose to be moved to the top parent part site and do a final assembly.my question is, how to move these parts? are they going to be the distribution orders? but, we tried planning network MRP, also PMRP, it just does not generate anything.if it has to be transport task to move the material, why system does not generate the transport task automatically? what did i miss?Thank you.

In the IFS Cloud version, is it possible to set Workcenters and other resources to Finite schedule as we could do in the previous versions to get Shop Orders to schedule based on constraints?  If not, is there a plan to use PSO or something else to get to that point?I know there is sequencing in APB, but was looking for a way to automatically slot/schedule the orders.Best Regards,Jeff Mazer 

Hello Community, I have a question, how can we capture any new Customer order in Manual historical data for demand planner. do we have to manually enter the list of new customer orders in manual historical data from customer order lines?can you please also help me understand that all newly entered customer orders will be captured by Base flow under internal source data or external source data?Thanks in advance for help.

When receiving on the workbench IFS gives the rather generic error “not enough material has been issued”  What is the easiest way  for shop floor user to specifically identify which material is the problem? 

Hi,What is the best way to handle the below scenario in setting up Manufacturing Control Plan? I have several Data points to check. But the responsibility is divided into Operator, QC and QC lab. Some data points checked by all parties but some by one party. Since we can have only one control plan, I have to register all the Data points under one Control plan and once the Analysis Result generate all the Data points comes in the Analysis Result. So the all data points in the Analysis Result are not relevant for a specific party.  Is there a better way to setup this scenario?

Hi IFS Community,I have a question about functionality so-called Spare Parts, in Engineering Part Revision (TAB).Engineering\PDM\Engineering Part\Engineering Part RevisionQ: Our customer's question is what this tab is for or better - whether it has an connection into some other/next processes, specifically into the service/maintenance, where Spare parts can be defined at the level of Serial objects (also TAB)?An official help (F1) mentions the following: "The spare part list can be copied to the modules IFS/Project Delivery and IFS Maintenance.”Q: What exactly is the possibility to use the filled TAB from PDM in other processes?Thank you in advance for any information regarding this,David

Hi all, I will create a control plan. One of a control plan line will have rate(%) what can I use norm type for it.  ThanksOzge

Does IFS Cloud still have the Copy Services functionality that used to be as shown here in Apps 10?And if not, what is the new best way to adapt existing parts/consists of, in Cloud Engineering PDM?On Engineering Part Revision, RMB, choose Copy ServicesUse the assistant to Copy Structure, Copy Part Characteristics, Copy Document Survey I do not find this in Cloud on any of these screens: Engineering Part Revisions, Engineering Parts, Engineering, Engineering Part Navigator, Part

Hello, We acquired a company and are in the process of merging them with our IFS Apps. 10 environment. (FYI>The acquired company is also operating on IFS Apps. 10, too.) The company does have a couple satellite offices and a warehouse which performs all aspects of receiving, shipping, customer order fulfillment and shop order assembly work.  We are leaning towards setting up a 2nd Site for this company. Has anyone prepared a Pros vs. Cons analysis when evaluating the setup of Multi-Sites within your IFS environment?Thanks,Rick Messina

Could I know the steps to change the default number generation format for shop order to reflect the following. 1000001,1000002,…..This would be for 22R1

Hi,Is there a way to define a default value for currency when adding Project accrual  misc details in below window  Thank you for your help. Regards,Naveena

Looking for some code that will output an expanded bill of material.  APP10 UPD5

Hello!Is there a way to transfer Inventory part unit cost, which IFS automatically updates, directly to under costing, for example to cost set one? What we would like to do is update our Sales part base prices from costing that way that we could use unit cost value which IFS calculates when receiving purchase parts. So that Inventory part unit cost could be transferred to one of the cost sets under costing and from there it could be transferred to sales part base price. Thanks for all answers!-Eetu 

Hi All,I have successfully managed to replace the IFS Purchase Order report with our own Crystal Report, all works fine.  When you email the purchase order the pdf is attached to an email example : Purchase_Order_18042.pdfthe number in the document name (i.e. 18042) relates to the unique RESULT_KEY field (from PURCH_INFO_SERVICES_RPV)   generated each time you request a Purchase Order print.Is it possible to change the document name so it includes the Purchase Order number and not the Result Key.Thanks.

Hi,Do we have any such functionlaity if we have same stock with multiple ownership (like consignment and company owned) so system should reserve the consignment stock first automatically if we do automatic reservation in shop order.Please confirm. Thanks