Replies posted by Vernon Anderson

19 Replies

Saman KHero (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

One manufacturing work center , registered in two sites, how to plan shop order operations ?

[quote=Saman K]Thanks [user=236]Björn Hultgren[/user] , We have done this in MPB ( Maintenance Planning Board ) where work orders from different sites users same maintenance organizations and crafts. As you said, the question is how common is this practice.[/quote] That may work for maintenance planning but what about normal manufacturing planning. As I have learned IFS lo these past 20 years, a site is a separate operational entity and its workcenters are limited to work to be performed within that site. I would be interested in seeing how this may be accomplished with a resource (machine) that is common across two sites.

3 years ago

Naveena NanayakkaraHero (Former Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Shop floor reporting

In what circumstances would you not want an employee to see the shop orders onto which they can clock on?

4 years ago

Saman KHero (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

One manufacturing work center , registered in two sites, how to plan shop order operations ?

Perhaps the easiest way would be to give them access to the manufacturing visualizer in both sites as a custom RMB from one work center to the other?

3 years ago

cappe.lindseyDo Gooder (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Slitting Metal in IFS

Can you elaborate a bit on the challenges you're facing with supporting the slitting process in IFS? Bjorn, I am the solution architect for ClarkDietrich. They will take a large coil of steel and slit it into multiple coils of varying widths. The master coil is in pounds and the slit coils are in linear feet. We recommended that ClarkDietrich use individual shop orders for each slit coil width, each with differing quantity per amounts of pounds of master coil per linear foot of slit coil. We also recommended the use of operation blocks to group the individual shop orders on the shop floor workbench. One of ClarkDietrich’s concerns is how to track and allocate edge scrap (the amount of material on the edge of the rollers that is used to feed the master coil through the slitter). Another concern is the starting and stopping of the multiple shop orders from an operator’s standpoint. Other concerns revolve around setup instructions, etc. because the slitter is configured for the

3 years ago

cjohnsonSuperhero (Customer)

asked in Buying (Procurement, Demand Planner, ASC, SRM)

Shop Order outside service lot size issue

Let me give you this scenario.The outside processor receives many of the part to be processed on several PO’s for Several shop orders We send let’s say 4500 pieces on a shop order with a lot size of 5000 because we ran out of material. However, the outside processing supplier processes these 4500 pieces but has 500 pieces lying around that he did for another shop order and ships those, too So now we want to register 5000 pieces on the shop order for 4500 Wouldn’t the system balk at trying to receive more than what was sent? How will the outside operation be update with the completed quantity Now that I have 5000 pieces left to process on a shop order for which I only produced 4500, how will the subsequent operations be affected? Wouldn't we just, at the end of the shop order, just over receive the shop order?I just mention this if you have already done this so I don’t have to try and set this up myself. Thanks!

2 years ago

Peshala FernandoHero (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Operation Man Hours

@Kevin Curtis The Operation Summary screen in attached screenshot from 7,5 looks a bit similar to Operation Statistics window. Guess you're also aware of it? Anyway I agree with you that the possibility to follow up quantities by employee could be enhanced. I understand if you do not want to put another request in if it was rejected some years ago, but if you do, I'll try my best to push for it. The operation statistics does it great as a whole for the operation but does not break it down to the employee level. If I a on a 1000 piece shop order and I MIGHT be able to do 100 pieces per hour, but I only report 90, there is no report that I know of that keeps track of how many pieces per hour I am expected to produce and a way to capture the number of pieces I actually produce during that hour.

2 years ago

pascalbDo Gooder (Customer)

asked in Service (Touch Apps, MWO, MRO)

How to delete Document Revisions and the associated Files automatically?

If you want to do it from the application, In Document Management\Document Revisions, you can query for obsolete documents. Select all, RMB File operations > Delete document revision (if you want to delete the file only, then select RMB File operations > Delete document files). However, you will be prompted with information messages, questions for each document revision most of the time, so again this will not be a complete automatic process Another option is to use a data repair. The data repair should be written in a way you will have to delete the connection, then delete the file and document object. Is this feasible to create into a scheduled task based on the days since obsolete??? Thanks!

7 months ago

hasithdeshanDo Gooder (Employee)

asked in Document Management (DocMan)

Can we add sharepoint documents to Document Revision?

Thank you Mathias, Solution worked. In APPS9 we don’t need to write any macro to view a .lnk or .url file since when we view the document, the link/url file will be executed automatically. But we have to set the EDM Basic / File Types via an INS. Hope this will be helpful to someone else. So are you saying that I first need to create a document file type of INS? When I go to create a new document, what do I put in as the file location?

1 year ago

MdangeloSidekick (Customer)

asked in Distribution (CRM, Commerce)

ATarBPTSidekick (Partner)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Update the shop cost - Standard Cost

Hi Tarek; The Standard Cost per configuration is specific for a Part and a Configuration. Using Calculate Shop Order Cost and then save Standard Cost helps to update the Shop Order Costs of the selected Shop Order and updating the Standard Cost for the Part and Configuration. If the goal is to update all the latest costs for configurations then using the Shop Order Costs may not be that standard as a shop order can have manual modifications for material; and operations. One effective way is to have interim Headers created for all the Parts and Configurations in the system, then after Standard Costs have been updated through cost calculations, It is possible to Search for them (Parts and Configurations) in the Interim Order Costs and Select them and RMB select Calculate Interim Order Costs This will update the Costs for each configuration based on the corresponding Structures and Routings. Then it is possible to select all the parts and RMB Select Save Standard Cost This will update th

1 year ago

BLGBEDo Gooder (Partner)

asked in Distribution (CRM, Commerce)

Intersite transfert via distribution order - Capability check

Hi @BLGBE I think you are expecting Distribution Orders to work beyond its capabilities when you say ‘If the part is not in stock in site B, i guess capability check for final customer order delivery should take into account’ This is because, Distribution orders are used for moving inventory parts between sites. The supply code is hard coded as 'Invent Order' and it basically expect goods to be ready at the supply side inventory. This is also stated in the documentation. DOC: Note: the internal customer order lines are created with a supply code set to Inventory Order. The supply code will be set to Inventory Order regardless of how the sourcing option is set on the sales part. Training Material: Released customer order lines are created on the supply site with a default supply code set to Inventory Order. The supply code will be set to Inventory Order regardless of how the sourcing option is set on the sales part. All in all, given the fact that the Distribution Orders ‘expect goo

1 year ago

Vernon AndersonSidekick (Employee)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Change Request Object Connections

Thanks, Matt! I will propose this and see what they think. This, of course, requires that the drawing is a document in DocMan.

7 months ago

Vernon AndersonSidekick (Employee)

asked in Warehouse Data Collection (WaDaCo)

WaDaCo Menu Folders and how to use them

Please disregard! Steve Ross was kind enough to show me the process of adding configurations to the folders I created. There is NOTHING in the Help text about this process!

6 months ago

Vernon AndersonSidekick (Employee)

asked in Supply Chain

Perido Planning (MRP Code G) and Master Scheduling

Thanks, Matt. I thought I was losing it!

2 months ago

AnnieeMarieeSidekick (Customer)

asked in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Changing a part to Serialized

Is it possible to cancel the purchase order line and then serialize the part and then re-enter the purchase order line?

3 months ago

Vernon AndersonSidekick (Employee)

asked in Warehouse Data Collection (WaDaCo)

Inventory Bar Code Report and mWO

MWO does not understand Inventory part barcode. Inventory Part barcode takes a full set of keys for some inventory (part no, serial, revision, WDR, project activity etc) and relabels it with a unique ID (just a number). The Inventory Part Barcode you print out is a barcode of that number, let’s say it’s “1234”. This entity is not included in MWO. Therefore you can scan “1234” in MWO, but it doesn’t know what that means. It will look for a part number “1234” or a work task “1234” depending which screen you’re on, but it will not look for an Inventory Part Barcode record. You could though edit the layout of the Inventory Part Barcode report so that it has the actual part number in a separate barcode. Then you could scan that using MWO. So basically, you just have to produce a barcode of the part number. Tanks, Paul. I am VERY familiar with the standard IFS bar code functionality and how it relates to the inventory part. But this seems like another example of design incompatibilit

3 months ago

SDNSidekick (Partner)

posted in Products (Manufacturing, Products, Engineering)

Creation of design object structure and conversion into equipment structure

I've been trying to use asset design and project functionalities to create structures that can later be converted into equipment structures for maintenance purposes. The business case is a company that needs to have default equipment structures that serve as template without referencing particular serial parts, and, that unlike serial of funtional structures, can be easily copied with all of their components. I 've been trying to understand which steps are needed to create design object structure and later convert it to an equipment structure. Does someone know what I could be missing? I’d like to add to this request as to how to create a large structure pseudo automatically by being able to migrate them in from an internal IFS function (project deliverables? Issues of materials within the project or an excel type functionality) so that we can capture not only the objects and the structures of those objects.

2 months ago

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