Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Running Apps10 UPD14We have a variety of repair scenarios and we are trying to determine which is the better shop order type to use for our different scenarios.  I’m looking for more information on the Rework checkbox in Manufactured Shop orders.  Based on the description and some initial testing, checking the rework option appears to give us the same functionality as a repair shop order, with the benefit of it being generated out of the customer order and automatically linked.Does anyone have any insights about the differences (or similarities) between these 2 options.

Hi,In the Shop Floor Workbench, is it possible to indicate (highlight the operation line or a message on the window) an operation whose manufacturing time exceeds the standard time (adding a tolerance margin), once the operation is approved?  

Hello, I need to find out all the PCBs with an MSL class. Where is this information?Thanks. 

We have parts sitting in a QA location that we want to scrap.  What is the best process for doing this?  

We use iterated characteristics in our Configurator (IFS 10, UPD 11).Is there a better way to use these iterated characteristics in a Sales Rule condition, rather than write out each iteration for each Option Value being specified?This is what I’m doing right now. Where I have the same Option Values, but it’s iterated based on 1-SHELFITEMTYPE%. We have up to 7 shelf items, meaning I have to do this 7 times to account for every iteration. I’ve tried using 1-SHELFITEMTYPE[1-SHELFCUR] which is our iteration counter to insert current iteration into 1-SHELFITEMTYPE, but this does not work. Thanks!

Hello, We have recently begun utilizing the Aurena interface within select departments and one of the feedback is they do not like having the part no and description concatenated on the shop orders screen because when they export to Excel the data is exported as it is on the screen.  Our users want the shop orders screen layout to be like IEE where the part number and description are in separate columns.   Has anyone made this change using the Page Designer?We are very new to Aurena and its taking us a while to relearn these types of changes. In the red area is what we’d like to change so part number and description are separate columns. Regards,William Klotz

In Routing Template window, the labor class listed in the LOV, is not taken from the site which is on the routing template header. please see the screenshot attached.Log into IEE Go to “ Routing Template” Window Add new record > Select site 623 > Save Add new Operation > Select labor Class by using LOV LOV window not fetching correct labor classes according to the site. Issue can be observed in APP10 UPD 9.    

I am trying to add a new characteristic to a part in inventory part but I need to create a new code. Where do I do that so that I can add it to the list?

Community,wondering how to calculate the subcontract operation lead time. I tried Supplier for purchase part, but calculation lead time is 0. kindly advise.Thank you.

Community, need to borrow your mind, where to set the default values for below items, when I am trying to transfer the engineering part to site.part template planner manuf engineerThank you.

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?