Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Have a query on scheduling inventory control plans for serial handled parts. When scheduling the inventory control plan, the analysis result generates a single form, but without the lot/batch numbers and serial numbers which the user has to select. However, lot/batch appears to be mandatory to enter and as such the created analysis can only be used for one lot/batch. Is there a way around this, as the customer has potentially tens/hundreds of batches and serials.

Hi, How to check who is performing copying cost set to cost set one, since we can only see the time stamping, but no user id.Thank you.

Hi,In DOP structures there may be many shop orders connected through structure relationships. If the machine shop resources are finite, upon creating a finite schedule for the shop orders, the  relationship between respective parent DOP orders has to be respected also. APB is capable of doing it. The planners are able to schedule DOP header ( demand header) , forward , backward, drag-n-drop or insert : where in any case, the operation relationships, DOP order relationships( structure relationships) and the resource constraints are respected.Can you share the experiences in using this functionality ( pros and cons). How often this functionality is used?On the other hand when it comes to Operation Blocks, APB is capable of loading operation block as single object ( along with its operations) but APB does not keep the operation block scheduled space in the resource exclusively for the operation block. The operations in the block can freely schedule in the resource timeline if there are no

We are currently facing an issue where our WIP is being driven to a negative balance that appears to be driven by partially completed shop orders. As customer demand fluctuates, our production planning schedules are adjusted based on the priority of the newer orders/jobs received. Orders currently in process may be paused to start the newer, higher priority orders. Because of this, we have many shop orders which are processed partially, have operations reported partially and have shop order receipts received partially into finished goods. At any given time, there are a large number of shop orders found in partially completed status.The partially completed shop orders are receiving the full cost of material and labor into finished goods instead of a proportionate amount of material and labor. As a result, it appears that more cost is being taken out of WIP than has been added to it. For example,A 500 piece shop order is partially completed with 300 pieces. Expecting only the following t

Dear All, related to seasonal business we have the case that some machine capacities are fully loaded. To reach necessary quantity we set up additional manual assembly process for that time. So for one product which needs to be assembled we have an automatically process (e.g. for 80% of produced pars) and additional to that an manual process (e.g. for 20% of produced parts).  If we use the routing for machine process for calculation, the part is calculated to cheap, if we use the manual process the part is calculated to expensive. Is there a kind of possibility to mix that both production processes for one part number for calculation, which not impact production planning and logistic etc.? Thanks in advance for feedback regards Sebastian

Hi we are using apps 10 and wanted to know if there is a setting or configuration that can set the dates below on the Resource Analysis screen red if the dates are in the past from now?regardsJamie 

I am trying to get the NET WEIGHT field in INVENTORY PART filled in. The help says it comes from Master Part. I have a net weight in Master Part, but it doe not populate over to Inventory Part.   I am using Apps 10 Thank You, Dave Lyon 

Community, will “Plan Alternate Component” check box should be checked when running MRP? if i want the alternate component to be involved in MRP calculation?  we did this, but looks like nothing changed, do you experience the same? Thank you.

Hello everyone.  We’re on IFS 10 update 11.  We’ve recently noticed an issue with part revisions that has us very concerned.  We’ve reported the issue to IFS but haven’t got any resolution or information about what may be causing this issue.  Wondering if anyone else has seen this issue.When an Engineering Part is up-rev'd and transferred, the most current existing Inventory Revision should be phased out and a new Inventory Revision created with a new phase in date correlating to the new Engineering Revision. Current orders that are in process such as started Shop Orders, or closed orders such as Purchase Orders, Shop Orders, Structures and Inventory Parts in Stock should retain their revision. However, we have observed that the revision of the parts on closed PO's, Shop Order Structures, and Inventory in stock are all updated. Instead of the current Inventory Part Revision with the former Engineering Revision being phased out, it is being overwritten.

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 inputs regarding the automatic update the shop order standard cost, through the shop order cycle ?Thanks, Tarek

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