Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Dear all,We have IFS10 and when MRP is executed, IFS removes all Shop Orders Requisitions with status “Proposal Created” even if it as Balance Id assigned.It seems that this is the standard behavior, but sometimes the planning person is doing the Batch Balancing and has several Shop Order requisitions already with Balance Id assigned to do the creation of the Shop Orders and left them from one day to another, during the night MRP executes and all Shop orders are removed and he needs to do all the balance again.Can someone tell me if in IFS Cloud the behavior is the same?Thanks & Regards,André Lima

The feature of allowing an operation quantity on a shop order to be less than the lot size of the shop order was introduced in Cloud 23R2. This is controlled on individual shop order operations by the new attribute Manual Operation Qty (Yes/No). This will be beneficial when a partial quantity needs to run through a one-off rework operation on the same manufacturing shop order.Manual Operation Qty can be set on Standard Operations, Routing Template Operations, and Routings of type Repair, Disassembly, Remanufacturing and Disposition.Why is this feature not available on Routings of type Manufacturing? A common use case is when testing is its own operation, but the full lot size will never need tested and reported as the completed quantity. The ability to set this in the Routing rather than manually on the manufacturing shop order would be an improvement.

Using the “Compare Shop Order with Structure and Routing” option on a shop order shows blowthough phantom items strangely. I get that its doing a 1 to 1 with the product structure so it shows the phantom as being “absent” on the shop order structure and the blow-through components as being “additional”.But I don’t like how the default action is to “remove” the additional components, when they really should be there. We had a change order come through and a planner went through this screen to update shop orders and removed many components without realizing. If we use the “Update Structure Revision and/or Alternate” or “Mass Update Shor Order Structures” it updates the shop orders correctly. Just wondering if I’m missing something with a setting or something. Or if anyone knows if there is any plans to make the Compare feature a little “smarter” in regards to phantom structures.

Hi,We are working on a solution for a manufacturing metal fabrication customer who would do multiple cutting operations for different products using an Operation Block. They are not using clockings to track start and end operations, only manual approving operations.Cutting Example:Cutting 10 Shop orders are created to fabricate 10 different pipe products of 10 different diameters. Each and every shop order has a cutting operation is their operation list. For all the cutting operations planners use one cutting resource. All the cutting operations from 10 shop orders combine into 1 operation block. Then the operator uses shop floor workbench to approve the operations in the operation block. When the operator tries to approve, he has to enter, machine, labor and quantities manually for each operation. What they expect is to enter quantity, labor and machine time total quantity and distribute.We find that distributing quantity is confusing because it is different quantities and can even be

Hello community,  I am facing a question here… how to calculate the lead time for all routing alternates with status buildable at once in IFS Cloud?   I can do it one by one but when I mark two or more, the option disappears. I was thinking about BPA but as I am not an IT girl, I asked GPT for help. Can somebody confirm that this would be doable or propose suitable adjustements?  START (Scheduled or Manual)routing_alternatives =  SELECT contract,         part_no,         routing_revision,         alternative_no  FROM Routing_Alternative  WHERE objstate = 'Released'FOR EACH routing_alternative IN routing_alternativesLOOP   CALL Routing_Alternative_API.Calculate_Manufacturing_Lead_Time(        contract          => routing_alternative.contract,        part_no           => routing_alternative.part_no,        routing_revision  => routing_alternative.routing_revision,        alternative_no    => routing_alternative.alternative_no   )END LOOPEND Thank you for your support, BRPetra

Hi I was wondering if there was some documentation or suggestions for dealing with First Article Inspection for manufacturing on IFS. I was hoping for something that would help for implementating.Thanks  

We need to assign employees/teams to shop order operations. According to the documentation for IFS Apps 10, this feature is available from the Shop Order Operations RMB and also in the Shop Floor Workbench.However, when I checked in the IEE client (Apps 10), I couldn’t find this option anywhere. In Aurena, it is available (in the same environment as the IEE client).Initially, in Aurena, the command button was not visible because CBS(Constraint Based Scheduling) was active on all sites. Since we do not use CBS, we disabled it. After that, the “Assign Employee/Team” option became visible in Aurena.Now, we need to check whether this functionality is also available in the IEE client, because the currently used client is IEE.Is this feature supported in the IEE client for Apps 10?Current version: Apps 10 UPD 18

Hello, Our company uses the IFS 9.4 application.Is there anyone who has experience with PDM–ERP integration on IFS or who has done this before? As part of our planned integration, we want to automate the following processes:Automatically updating material revisions made in PDM as engineering revisions on the IFS side Automatically transferring the product tree (BOM) from PDM to IFS Automatically creating inventory cards in IFS from PDMWe would like to discuss the details with anyone who has experience in these areas or would like to share their thoughts.You can contact me via LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/muzaffer-%C3%A7okaslan-60477121a/ Thank you in advance. Best regards,Muzaffer Çokaslan

Hello, Our company uses the IFS 9.4 application.Is there anyone who has experience with PDM–ERP integration on IFS or who has done this before? As part of our planned integration, we want to automate the following processes:Automatically updating material revisions made in PDM as engineering revisions on the IFS side Automatically transferring the product tree (BOM) from PDM to IFS Automatically creating inventory cards in IFS from PDMWe would like to discuss the details with anyone who has experience in these areas or would like to share their thoughts.You can contact me via LinkedIn:👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/muzaffer-%C3%A7okaslan-60477121a/ Thank you in advance. Best regards,Muzaffer Çokaslan

Hello community,In the cost set 5, i am calculating the cost for a purchased material and copying the cost to cost set 1. Everything looks perfect here. When i do a receipt of the same part, the cost detail is not split by the cost buckets properly. it is only picking the first line from P-140 cost template. For testing purposes, i deleted the cost bucket 140 from P-140 cost template. Then the cost was created with next cost bucket in the template which is 160. Anyone knows how to split the cost properly for inventory transaction receipt?Thanks Furkan

Hello everyone,I have an issue when it comes to Shop Order that are connected to CAMRO processes.The idea is to have a Pick List that can cover multiple Shop Orders, like Consolidated Picklist for Customer Orders/Shipments.Anyone had this problem before? How can we do a Consolidated Shop Order Pick List?

Hello All, I have created custom lov where I created the LOV to display its ID and Description, The lov works fine shows up in Order report when report is run from application as well it shows when running from BR, only issue is the description, the description shows up in the report when ordering from IFS application but it does not show when I view from BR report. The report is currently developed from APPS10 environment.

Why does the system allow issuing a quantity greater than what is defined in the Repair Action (Add)? Shouldn’t this be restricted to avoid mismatches between the consumed quantity for the repair and the as-built structure revision generated at MLRSO receipt? Environment – IFS Cloud 24.1Create and release an MLRSO for a serial-tracked repair part. In Shop Order → Materials, issue the component part representing the repair part. Go to Shop Order Multilevel Repair Structure, select the repair part node, and add a repair action: Define a serial-tracked part (Quantity = 1), select a repair reason, and confirm. Return to Shop Order → Materials, then: Reserve Quantity = 2 of the component part using Manual Reservation. Issue both reserved serials using Manual Issue. From the shop order header, perform Manual Receive: Enable Auto Report Operations, create a record in Serial Inventory Receipt, and complete the MLRSO receipt. In As-Built Structure, search for the repair part and the received se

Hi all,We have a requirement to apply dual sourcing through the product structure:two different but interchangeable components that should be used in, for example, a 50/50 ratio.Using phase in/phase out doesn’t seem like a good solution, because shifting schedules cause new purchase requisitions to move from product A to product B within the lead times.Dual sourcing via Purchasing isn’t possible either, because the two components are physically different items and therefore must be procured as separate components.Does anyone have a suggestion on how this could be handled within standard IFS Cloud?Thanks in advance!

Hi all,  Question about KanBan circuits. When automatic KanBan circuits are created, automatically a kanban card is created. As far as I understand this card is not being used, correct? What is the purpose this card is created?Seems to me it would be more logical a card would be automatically created when a electronic kanban circuit is created, because in this kanban type a card is needed.  Kind regards, Willem

I want to trigger a workflow when a new batch is added in PartLotBatch. Currently, I'm using a projection to trigger this workflow, specifically PartLotBatchHandling, with the trigger type being "Create New." However, when I test by creating a batch number in a shop order, the workflow isn't triggered, and there are no records in the observation in ‘Watch’. How can I trigger this workflow?Furthermore, the workflow includes an update activity that updates a custom field in PartLotBatch. I think I need to select a projection that can trigger the workflow before I can use that projection for the update operation. 

Greetings! I am trying to add a new component part (FD DRIVE AXLE) to the Configuration Structure, but don’t know how to get it on the “list” of part numbers. IFS APPS10  

Hi,is it clear somewhere which standard FMEA is based on in IFS?e.g. ISO 31000, ISO 31010 or DIN 60812:2018Best Regards,Milanko 

Greetings!I am trying to create a DOP Header in IFS Apps 10. It says incomplete; however I do not see any red exclamation points anywhere that point to the issue. Anybody know why?  

Greetings!Trying to run a interim demand header in IFS apps 10 but the following error keeps coming up. 

Greetings!Anyone know what this means in IFS apps 10? I ran a evaluate rules in interim demand header, but this came up  

Greetings!I ran a Interim Order in IFS apps 10. However I keep seeing the errors below regarding “no value” However, when I look into the Part Config I do see values. 

In IFS Cloud, mass reservation of Shop Orders fails completely if any Shop Order in the batch encounters a material shortage.This issue occurs when the part has “Allow Many Lots per Component” = FALSE.Even if other Shop Orders have valid inventory, they are not processed.The system stops the entire reservation process and shows an error only for the failing Shop Order.As a result, planners must manually reserve each Shop Order, which is not feasible for large volumes. The error: Does anyone else follow the same mass reservation process and encounter this issue—where the entire process stops due to one Shop Order failing (e.g., because “Allow Many Lots per Component” is set to FALSE and there's a material shortage)?If so, how do you overcome this and successfully reserve a large number of Shop Orders at once? Prabashwari

In the product structure, it is possible to set a default value for whether a component item is a standard planned item, but in the configuration structure, there is no default setting for whether a component item is a standard planned item. 

I have a question regarding an electronic Kanban circuit. Is it possible to directly deduct the inventory to a cost center once the transport task has been executed, instead of transferring it to a location? This is to prevent incorrect stock levels on the shop floor, particularly for small packaging materials and fasteners. I would like to add the cost of these materials to the product cost by applying a surcharge.