Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

 Hi All,We have a situation where the serial structure was build incorrectly by using the wrong serial on the wrong parent. This wasn’t caught until the child serial no was consumed and a sub-assembly and then the subassembly was consumed on a FG Assembly so now the incorrect serial number is 2 deep. On top of that we’ve crossed financial periods so reopening two levels of shop orders is not realistic.We are on Apps10 - Upd 11.Specific situation:Component A with serial number A was built into the serial structure for Subassembly B, serial number B. This was incorrect. We should have used component A, serial number Y.Subassembly B was then issued to Finished Goods Assembly C, serial number C.The FG Assembly is in inventory. Can we somehow rearranged the structures to reflect the correct build without reversing shop orders.I know how to remove a serial number from a serial structure, just not sure if a new serial number can be added back.

how can i get transaction history details for manual receive shop order type :prototype?

Community, would like you to share how you are handling below scenarios, Product A Rev 2 currently is on shop orders, which are started, whereas engineering department issue a new revision of Rev 3. and shop floor are requested to build Rev 3.question is, what is the best practice to handle this scenario? what if the components are installed already?

Community, We would like the shop order to be reserved by operation. my question is, shall this “Shop Order Process Type -  Reserve Shop Order” in Manufacturing Standard Basic Data work? we already have the operation connected BOM. Thank you.

Hi Community need advice on the best method/ practise to use to handle customer order that are required to be in stock but not being shipped until the customer is ready to receive them which is current an unknown due to various factors.We still need to manufacture the parts in the sales quantities but as we are unable to ship the products we currently push the date out until the end of the following month. We have been doing this for several months and now have a customer order book which shows demand to manufacture and ship multiple customer order lines at the end of the month which invalidates the accuracy of the customer order book. (see below)We are currently still invoicing monthly to the custom even though we are not shipping the products physically or on the system.is there a better way we can handle this situation so we can ship the products on the system or move them to a holding location until we are ready to physically ship them? regardsJamie

We've a situation where we want to have raw material at a supplier and also keep track of this. Its sort of a customer consignment stock but at a supplier level instead. In example we want them to keep steel raw material at their site (to guarantee deliveries and because this raw material is quite costly right now)  and when we buy a finished steel products from them the consignment stock would have to be adjusted accordingly. Is there are solution for this in IFS today? If yes, can you guide me in the right direction I 'vent been able to find anything in the online documentation. 

Afternoon, we are using IFS APPs 10 and are creating new parts number for an existing paint system but wanted to know the cleanest way to transfer the existing material on stock from the old part number to the new part number while keeping traceability?the reason for the change in part number is because we need to use a different unit of measure, as we purchase a product in Litres which is sold in KG, convert into Litres and receive the stock, operators have to mix the product by weight (KG) and then issue in Litres. This can become very confusing and cause stock accuracy discrepancies.regardsJamie 

Hi all,Sometimes we would like to ship more on a customer order than required (E.g. 11 instead of 10). We do not want to change the qty on the CO, so we make changes to the picking list resulting in a negative pegged quantity. That is ok, but complicated - especially when we look at the api’s involved.    We would like to change the reserved quantity to higher value than required, but that is not possible (screen shot below). Is there a way to reserve more qty without making a picking list first? 

Hi,Some questions about the FMEA module: For the same failure, I can add multiple effects and causes. However, to have a correct RPN score, I want to link a specific cause with a specific effect. Currently, IFS always links the cause with the first effect of the list. How can I link it with the second effect? Is there a way to include/see if a FMEA for a subassembly has allready been done in the final assembly? Example: I have subbassemblies A and B, which I manufacture seperately. I have Product structure for C, which consists of A and B. I would like to see in my structure for C that I allready have a FMEA for A. You can check by going to the structure of A, but if A is used in many other structures that wouldn’t be convenientUsing APP10 Thanks!

How to change no of Decimal places in Sales and Operations planning for make to stock window in IEE?

 Hi, In Shop floor reporting if the planned machine time is exceeded, IFS deletes the scheduled resource . Is there any reason for this .Thanks!Regards,Naveeva

Hi,One of our customers is experiencing an issue. MRP is creating purchase requisitions without any lines (part or no part), so only the purchase requisitions header. But, this is ad-hoc (this happens occasionally).Is there a way that MRP can create purchase requisitions without any lines ?I have checked whether there is any custom task to delete the PR lines of certain parts, but there’s no. Thank you,

Good afternoon,We are struggle with APB, following a nice user guide, we try to take our hands on it but we face a technical issue at point 2.2.6.First, after loading shop order, is it not colored as in the manual:Example from the manual what i observe: when i RMB Scheduling: SO remain unscheduled.Someone could help me to start? 

Are there special considerations when setting up PMRP and using parts with planning method E? We are running such a case in Apps 9 and it looks like the unit cost is calculated to 0, resulting in all demand being put together into one lot. It works fine with regular MRP. Since this is an old version, maybe this is a known and corrected bug?

Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to configure the IFS client to automatically login with a supplied user account and password?  Currently, we have around 80 shop floor terminals across our manufacturing facilities. An issue I’ve seen is that in the event of a power outage, all of the SF terminals at the Site must be manually logged back in. I have been able to automate up to the point where I have the PCs automatically login to the Windows environment and launch IFS, but I have not been able to figure out how to pass credentials through and execute the actual login. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

One of my customers would like to restric the issue of material in the Shop Order to the Quantity Planned as per the product Struct7re. Currently, the system allows to over-issue. Is there a facility to stop this Nitin

Community, Would like to know how you are handling material flow between work center inbound and outbound locations.  we have inbound and outbound locations defined in each work center.in order to produce finished product ABC, prior to assembly, we have semi-finished products, A, B, C manufactured. basically, semi products A, B, C will stay in their outbound location of the its last work center, usually it is a Floor Stock location. when shop order for finished product ABC is released, we would like to see in the system, that A, B, C are all on a transport task and ready to move to final product ABC work center inbound location. How to make this happen? Thank you.

Hi Community,we are working with Apps 10 Upd. 11 and want to print a label with Part_no and Description, but on Inventory part barcode label (INVENTORY_PART_BARCODE_REP / InventoryPartBarcodeRep) there is no Part Description.But on Inventory Part Barcode Analysis it is visible.Any proposals for a fix without modification?And does anyone print a simple picture of the part on the labels? In my opinion a great approach to avoid errors.Thank you for your feedback!Regards Martina

Hi, I am working on implementing Production Schedules and am seeing some peculiar results depending on if the Schedule Firm check box is selected or not on the Production Schedule by Line.I would appreciate inputs on the functionality of this check box and it’s impacts if any on the Production Receipts based on the value. Thank you.

MRP runs for a site, but the component whose parents/grandparents have demands does not plan (i.e. IPAP screen is blank). Why? Check the component’s parent part. If it has demands, but the component’s IPAP screen is blank, chances are the parent part’s Recipe or Product structure screen has an entry in the Structure Lot size tab pointing to an alternate (which is not *) where this component is not included. If you remove this entry from Structure Lot size for the parent, MRP will plan the component correctly. Other option is to make the component part of the non-* alternate of the parent (if was supposed to be there in the first place). 

Hi, we are using apps 10 and would like to know if there is a way to block the reserving and issuing of material from either a specific location, location group or warehouse but still be able to receive parts to those location?couldn't see any check boxes on the Warehouse navigator or inventory locations.The reason for this requirement is we are looking into the shop floor employees issuing there own liquid raw material (paint) after processing a shop order but when using the ‘Manual Issue’ option on the work bench is allows the operator to issue material from all locations including the paint stores which we are trying to stop.regardsJamie

Hi, We’re running IFS10 and want to make sure that material for a specific Work Center is reserved from a production line. This works fine for us if we don’t connect the material line to an operation. As soon as we connect it to an operation the reservation is unsuccessful. RMB on the row and selecting “Reserve” leads to below information message and the row is not reserved, notice that the row is connected to Operation 10. If we remove Operation 10 from the row and selectes RMB “Reserve” again the row is successfully reserved. In the Operations tab operation 10 has been setup.The Production Line has been setup with the produced part and the component we’re trying to reserve. And the Work Center has been setup using the production line. Are we missing anything, or is it not possible to reserve material from production lines if the material is connected to an operation number?

Hi!I user IFS 8. Now I can not edit field phase out date in BOM. Why and how can I solve it?   

Hi, we have a need to add in manufacture part number for the inventory part in stock record.  That field comes from the dme_ext_lot_batch_master_tab.  We have many inventory part in stock records however that do not have a record in the dme_ext_lot_batch_master_tab so I am update that field. I have not been able to find out  yet what causes a record to be inserted into that table.  We have old and new inventory parts that get added with and without that table being inserted into.  Does anyone have any insight into this table?  THANK YOU!!

IFS App 9I have a customer that manufacture parts reported by receiving reels, x pcs per reel.Sometimes the quality in the reel is not 100% approved and the customer want to rewind two reels into one. Test Case : The part has order based lot tracking, many lots allowed, not multi-tracked1 reel in stock, batch A, 1000 pcs but 400 are non-conforming1 reel in stock, batch B, 1100 pcs but 600 are non-conformingCreate a repair shop order, Lot Size 2100 Issue material, complete qty from both lot A & B Now I want to scrap 400 from lot A and 600 from lot B but I cannot define lot no for scraped parts, what is the problem?  When select Component Scrap, no lines are populated in the lower part of the form, why not?