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Tracking unknown Qty in Engineering BOM

  • 18 April 2023
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Historically our company has tracked what we call ‘as required’ qty in engineering BOMs typically for materials used in the manufacturing process (epoxy, paint, etc).

In IFS, the design engineers will put a qty .001 (a convention we invented) meaning that the exact qty is unknown at design time, but will be updated by a manufacturing engineer when the actual amount of material needed (ie 2 gallons) is known.

We want to move away from the .001 for some technical reasons. Is there an industry standard way, supported by IFS, to handle this type of scenario.

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Hi @mdeanton ,

One of my customer had the similar requirement and we handled this by using the note field available in the engineering BOM which will be transfer to production BOM when we do engineering transfer.

Initially we used keep the quantity as one and mention in the note that the quantity will be redefine by production team. Then first we transfer the engineering BOM as a prototype structure and later production team updated the actual quantity requirement after completing the prototype. Then new engineering revision is created or the existing revision is again transferred as manufacturing structure with the correct quantity. 

FYI, you can only transfer single level BOM as prototype.

Hope this helps!!

Regards,

Mithun K V

 

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