Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

When multi-level tracking is required on Lot/Batch enabled parts, there are scenarios where standard quantity of a component in the product structure is not truly required to complete the produced part, for example it would OK to issue 9.8 pounds of flour instead of 10.  Or perhaps the component quantities are not discrete, rather going out several decimal places in quantity required, for example a component UOM is pounds.  And as long as the actual amount issued is close to this it would be OK.  With Multi-level tracking turned on, none of these scenarios are possible, as the tracked structure requires all the required quantity to be reserved or issued, or the tracked structure is not complete.  Has anyone found work-arounds for this? I am thinking it might require a modfication to change the validations to allow some level of tolerance around quantity issued versus qty required.

I have a Shop Order that requires an outside process to be done at a different site. I issued the Outside process PO, but nothing is popping out at my other site. Any ideas on what I could be missing?

I’m  trying to find out where the cost bucket sequence is identified in Apps10.  Thanks  Dave 

Hello all,How can we adjust the serial number sequence for serialized products?The serial numbers need to be unique, but when Auto-generate is selected, all serialized parts start at number 1.For example:Part 1 starts at 10,000Part 2 starts at 20,000etc.Is there a UI where this can be managed?Creating the first serial number manually and then switching to auto-generate is not possible due to the large number of serialized parts.Kind regards,Willem 

Hello,How can I add a custom attribut to Shop Floor Workbench page. I created the attribut.But it is not accessible from Page designer.  

Community, for new purchase part that received into stock, system does not automatically enabled the supplier warranty, this works fine for those parts that will be built onto final assembly and dellivered to customer ultimately,  but not for the parts that used in facility. any settings we missied?  we are on APP10. 

Hello, In 24R2 - MS 1 is always creating the Supply request (Shop Ord Req) considering the product structure revision based on the Due date even though ‘Use Current Revision for Past Due Supplies’ check box is enabled at Site level. With the Same setup at site level, we tried the below scenarioCreated manual Shop Ord Req with the due date as in the MS generated Shop Ord Req, it is picking up the latest revision, not considering the due date of the shop order.  Manually updating the quantity in MS 1 generated Shop Ord Req, the Product structure revision changed to the latest revision in the Shop requisition Conclusion: MS1 is not working as expected with ‘Use Current Revision for Past Due Supplies’ check box is enabled at Site level. I am not sure whether i need to setup some thing more to Use this feature for MS1. Appreciate your help in advance. Thanks,Siva 

Hi all,We work in IFS App 10, and I’m looking for a ‘get’ method ! My starting point is the shop order operations list, and I need to retrieve the start date of the ‘next operation’ based on a given operation number… there doesn’t seem to be a ready-made ‘get’ method for this, so I’m trying to find a workaround / combining a couple of ‘get’…I have already identified this method : SHOP_ORDER_OPERATION_API.GET_OP_START_DATE  for retrieving a given operation’s start date ; however, I am struggling to find a method that retrieves the number of the ‘next operation’ based on a given operation number ! Can anyone help me with that ?

I have a couple of clients in 25R1 that are using or want to use Visual Shop Order Operations Planning to drag and drop operations from a  workcenter to another workcenter;  However, we are finding a few oddities:We have resources within a workcenter that are blocked yet the resources still appear in the Gannt chart.  Why? The calendar has definite time periods per day that the operations can be assigned .  However, Gannt chart still shows the full 24 hours.  Can we filter out th enon-working time and if so, how? How can I filter out particular work centers so I don’t even see them as them on the Gannt.chart even though the work center is active?Thanks!

Is there any documentation on the plot setting tab  of the scheduling settings in the advanced planning board. I was exploring the Characteristic Code Values, but I don’t know what the exact “codes” are and what to use to make it work correctly.. I was wondering if there instructions or a list to go off to code? 

 Hello,I am in production at my client's site. He upgraded yesterday to version 25R1, and I am getting this error message when receiving an OF. Have you ever seen this message before?  ORA-01400: impossible d'insérer NULL dans (\"IFSAPP\".\"SO_COST_DISTRIBUTION_TMP\".\"COST_BUCKET_PUBLIC_TYPE\")"}]

How can I set up a purchased part to only drive purchase req’s from created shop orders?

I have several top level assemblies that consist of a few sub-assemblies. I am getting the components of each sub-asseb,ly when I print the Work Instructions but I am not getting the routing for them. Is there a way that I can :A: Have the routings for each sub-assembly show with the top level shop order. orB: Have the system link all the routings together 9Meybe with the sequesce?

I have a customer that has a requirement to send detailed cost information of their parts manufactured in Mexico to the Mexican Government.  To do this, they use an excel spreadsheet that is used to load into a customs broker system called Aranxel. The standard report, “Cost Build-Up Report - High Detail”, contains all the necessary information but it is meant to be printed; not into Excel.  The “Structure Multi-Level” display shows all the breakdowns but it does not include the cost bucket breakdowns. The “Part Routing Costs per Cost Bucket” display does not explode through the product structure. Does anyone know of a standard query that can exreact multilevel cost information by bucket?  Alternatively, has anyone developed such a query?   Here is the format used currently: 

Hi together,I got a question.Is there a specific reason why a direct transfer of eng parts is not allowed in standard for multiple positions?(mask: Engineering Revision Transfer Status)all positions are in status assigned and single position direct transfer is possible all for positionsKinds regards 

Hello,When working in a team on the shop floor workbench and an operation is started there is the option to select team members. With this option I would expect the shop floor clockings would only be created for those team members. But when Im checking the shop floor clockings after stopping the production, the clockings are created for all team members. Am Im missing a setting or can this be a bug? Kind regards, Willem

We are using control plan for purchasing receipt inspection, there is option to trigger type of manual with help document description like below:Manual - This is not triggered by any existing value in the system, instead it can be used to create custom defined triggering points and connect them to this trigger type.Given the above help description, we still don’t know how to and where to create this custom define triggering. Is there further instruction and support document for help? Thanks a lot.Semon

Suppliers have non conforming material that they want us to disposition before we receive. What is the best way to do. Would like to go through the material review board but can’t create MBR since part is not received

Hello,  Is there a possibility to use 1 serial sequence for all manufactured serialized parts, auto generate in IFS cloud? Kind regards.Willem

Hello,I need help. I get an error message when I try to split a work order, but it doesn't happen every time. Also, my customer doesn't use handling units.Can you tell me if you've ever seen this message? It's really just a standard split.Thank you for your help.        

Dears,  I have a question. We have tried the reservation from the specific location on the shop order which is possible once the following choices are made:   However when I try to do this for configuration structure instead of the product one, the automatic reservation is not an option. To be fair, I am not using the floor stock.  Can you please advise? Thank you,Best RegardsPetaKu 

Hello   from the documentation, I understand that the IFS instance has to be set up exclusively either as 1) enabling copy from Project Deliverables to Asset or 2)to Copy to Equipment. This setup being based on property COPY_TO_MAINTENANCE. Does it mean that once it’s defined for an IFS instance, and that Project Deliverables has been used, then it should stay as it is? Does it means that it’s not possible to run both flows in the same instance? Thanks

Hello, A brief question regarding the 2 views mentioned “Operation Statistics” and “Labor and Operation History”. We are aiming to get the correct data from our shop floor regarding what has actually been produced during a given time period. What we experience is that “Operation Statistics” does not provide the same information as “Labor and Operation History”. Wheras the latter also requires us to manully filter out duplicates, cancelled operations etc. Operation Statistics seems to be the way to go, but I am uncertain that we use it correctly. Whereas if I want to check on yesterday’s shop floor results. I miss out on partially reported shop orders due to there is not actual finish dates. Does anyone have any tips on how to procede?My first though is that we need to “start production” and use clockings more thorughly in production. Which gives us the possiblity to filter on “actual start date” instead. We currenlty using IFS10, but in September we are implementing IFS - CloudBest Reg

Why would the duration be different on two clocking when the start and stop times are the same?  Note the screen shot below… the duration on 11/6 is 3.87 hours, but the duration on 11/10 is only 1.48 hours.  It appears that the system is doing something different on Mondays but it’s only impacting certain employees.  

(Cloud) Is there a function where there is routing operations logic? What we are seeing is when we run the Advanced Planning Board (ABP), is that our operations are not scheduling directly after each other once the previous operation is completed. For example,We have Tool T1473 that has 2 instances (1733 and 1744)Our Routing is setup 10 (Prep)- Uses Tool T147320 (Mix) - Uses Tool T147330 (Cure) - Uses Tool T147340 (Remove supports)- Uses Tool T147350 (Test) - No Tool usedWork Center is all the same (expect 50) with 1 Resource And what I’m seeing is that during scheduling, the tool jumps from one tool instance to another tool instance instead of keeping with the same instance. And then also it starts Op 40 days later after Op 30 is done. Is there a way to fix this? In other systems I’ve used, I’m used to seeing something like “Absolute Start after previous operation”, or “Delay start after operation”   Or do we need to look at setting up the router differently? I was exploring the WC’s