Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Community,I have been wondering if the Visualizer has been working properly for everyone that uses it. I am on (IFS APPS 10 UPD 11).When grouping the Labor Class graph to a weekly view, it does not update the actual capacity in the tooltip, it still shows daily capacity which is misleading. (See picture)In addition since it is a weekly view and aggregated, should it not also show that we are not overloaded if we look at capacity from a week by week standpoint? Where as the Labor Load in Standard Hours - Labor Class shows this accurately.Looking forward to some replies :). 

Community, We have multiple parts (in-house built manufacturing parts) which are using work order disassembled from their parent parts, due to its wrong process, we would like to restore them back onto their original parent part. Would that be possible for work order? Thank you.

in order to calculate the estimated material cost in the finish good shop order for a zero on-hand item I have entered the estimated material cost in the inventory part window (cost tab). The shop order is calculating the estimated material cost based on the entered value but the issue is the cost source value is (asterisk) * for that particular component in the shop order costs window. I want to know whether there is any way to solve this issue? Relevant screenshots are attached.

Hi AllHopefully an easy one.Scenario, Part A( manufactured) is made from Part B (purchased), currently both set up as finite with a lead time.At the Begining Part A is scheduled for 100 days from now based on lead time, so far so good.A PO is created for part B and the planned arrival date can now be earlier or later than expected ,Now when i run APB i need this new arrival date (Actual supply) to supersede the default lead time.What settings / process do i need to incorporate in order for this to happen?   RegardsIan

Hi. we are using apps 10 and run MRP site wide once a week that generate over 30,000 action messages after every run. Looking at the date over two thirds of the messages are ‘ No Demand Exists’ for parts with a frequency class of Very Slow ( No transaction over the past year). the part status of all these parts are set at A (active), should we change the setting to O (obsolete) to prevent MRP creating any demand and as a result hopefully reduce the number of MRP action messages we generate?what is best practice?kind regardsJamie 

Hi does anyone know if it is possible to upload a Bill of materials created in solidworks 2021 directly into IFS when creating a part structure?currently we duplicate our effort and copy the Solidworks Bill of materials in IFS part by part which takes considerable time.we ae using Apps 10regardsJamie 

Hi Community,According to Application Online Documentation, we can use Shop Order Operations window to view and edit details of shop order operations that are of order type Manufacturing, Repair, and Prototype.But does anyone know what is the reason for not allowing “Assembly” and “Disassembly” type shop order operations in Shop Order Operations window?Best Regards,Shani

Hello Experts !I have a business scenario to resolve. Appreciate your help here.In MRO world, as soon as the engine parts are disassembled, they are sent for cleaning process. For example, one disassembly shop order could contain 100+ disposition shop orders beneath it. Always, each disposition shop order's 1st operation is ‘Cleaning’ activity under same work center with same labor class.The cleaners/mechanics have to clock-in all these cleaning operations one by one for all disposition shop orders which is a time consuming activity while all these parts are cleaned bulk.Is there a way to clock-in set of cleaning operations from set of disposition shop orders together using shop floor work bench ? That mean, actual operation time also should be split equally among them.(Ex: Initially, 10 cleaning operations from 10 DSOs should be clocked-in together, later next 15 cleaning operations from 15 DSOs should be clocked-in together) 

DescriptionRefer below test plan for the scenario• Create a simple manufacturing product structure.• Go to Part Master Data >> Master Part >> Part window and query for these parts. Add Chinese description under ‘Language Description’ tab with Language Code ‘zh’.• Create a Shop Order and create ‘Work Instruction’ Report [RMB on SO Header >> Reports >> Create Reports. Tick checkbox ‘Work Instruction Report’. Select ‘OK’. Select ‘zh’ as the Language and click ‘Preview’.• The generated report does not show the Part Description in Chinese, instead shows in English. This is applicable for both Work Instruction Report and Picklist when created from both Shop Order window and Shop Floor Workbench when logged in from the English language.Any specific way to rectify the situation?Best Regards,Thilan 

Morning, can anyone tell me what date on the customer order is the main demand driver which MRP uses to plan purchases and manufacturing supply/schedules? i.e. Promise date regardsJamie 

Some of the components we use in Shop Orders are Customer Owned. We are having to raise the Shop Orders and manually change the lines to Customer Owned and stating the customer before parts can be reserved to the shop order. As this is the standard process rather than exception, does anyone know of a way of making the structure ‘aware’ that it needs to draw components from Customer Owned stock for certain components?  

Hello, How do I increase/decrease the number of decimals, when a quantity is entered or displayed in the Recipe Structure window?   

Hi, can anyone suggest why MRP is picking up demand but not demanding any supply on the below part. Both Structure and routing are at buildable yet i am getting an action message ‘Not Buildable’ but cant understand why? regardsJaime 

Hi There, One of the user has mistakenly deleted the Cost bucket 110 in an important environment. When I am trying to add manually I am getting an error ‘’Ids in the range of 0-999 for cost elements and Cost Buckets are reserved for future use’’. Cost Bucket 110 is system defined one. Why does the system allows to delete the record and not allow to add back in the system?  Is there any way to add the Cost bucket 110 in the system?

Hi, My customer is manufacturing a Configured Partand also they buy this Configured Part from supplier (for OEM). while, for IFS (both APPS 10 and IFS Cloud)in IFS purchase order screen, it doesn’t allow to input a configured parts directly. Is there any workaround for it? Thank you.    

hi is there any way to reset inventory_value_tab?we are getting  `the new date must be equal to or greater than the start date of the latest period in the inventory value statistics` error during Reception to Inventory on IFS 9thanks in advance,Volkan

Hello Community,We are s\using IFS 9. While reporting shop orders I am getting the below message.Require your support.  

Hi, For MRP calculation,could we put the related package In-Memory to enhance the performance?  

I have a number of jobs that will migrate with 3 Operations, one for Set-up, one for Run and one to Approve and close the job. IFS allows all of the steps to be performed as part of one operation. I would like to copy and paste the work guidelines from step 20 into step 10, etc. Can’t figure out how to do it. There must be an easy way, I just can’t find it.

How does the supersede option work in IFS? What is the function? How does it work, PO? Can somebody provide me scenarios for what and when to utilize it? Provide a screenshot; It will be great. 

I Would like to receive handling unit out of Shop floor workbench for shop order with 2 operation lines with back flushing material. By partly approving the last operation is would like to receive the handling unit. But I get te underlaying error.If I receive manual in receive shop order and check checkbox auto report operations, then it will work. Why is there no check box for auto report operations in het shop floor workbench? Please advise how I can make this work in the shop floor work bench.

Hi Guys, When we add a sticky note for a record in MRP Part information window, that same sticky note being appeared for a different record with same site information. This can be observed in both Apps 9 & Apps 10 core environments. So my question is, does this behavior a bug or a standard behavior of the application? 

Hi.Our engineering department would like to use outside operation within manufacturing routings which will all have there own individual work centres set to ‘outside work centre’ and have a connected supplier to reduce the number of levels within a structure.This seems to make sense as it can dramatically reduce the time and complexity of engineering required but our procurement department raised two issues Issue :1  limited forward visibility of future purchase requisitions and purchase orders, not visible until the shop order (with the outside operation) has been released, as when they are at planned this doesn't drive any demand.Question: is there a way procurement can have greater visibility of future purchases requisitions or orders?Issue 2: visibility of parts currently out being processed by an outside operation.Question: how do they see what parts are currently at an outside operation?Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated as I don't believe we are currently using th

Hi, We are running APPS10 UPD9.  Want to implement Kanban and have never used it before.Have been able to create circuits and do replenishments.  My question is, can you look at a forecast for 3 months out to help resize your Kanban?If so, what are the steps.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hi all,Is there a function in IFS to notify the requesting department, usually production, that a shortage item needed to finish a shop order has arrived?