You can create a work order for a broken object that is to be moved from the facility to the workshop for repair in IFS/Preventive and Corrective Maintenance. When a broken object needs to be repaired, it can be transferred to the repair workshop in three ways. You can either create a repair work order and remove the broken object to the repair workshop, or turn into the Serial Object and select the object to be moved into the repair workshop. Sometimes it is discovered after a work order is created that the object needs to be brought into the repair workshop for repair. Therefore the third way is to go direct from the work order into the Turn into Repair Order. From here you can define where to move the broken object. Upon saving, the work order will be set as repair order. And once the broken object is moved to the workshop, a new replacement object will have to be moved from the inventory to the facility. When the broken object in the workshop is repaired, you can either give it back to the facility to replace the other temporary object, or to the inventory. If for some reason the object cannot be repaired, it will be scrapped. The repair work order will then be reported in.
The objects that can be brought to the repair workshop are either serial objects or non-serial parts. Some repairable objects are expensive or central to the production that you would want to keep track of them on an individual basis. Thus, the unique object assigns a unique serial number. An object registered in the system is also part of the facility structure. The system can help you keep track of how many hours the object has been in operation, how often the object is repaired, and the expenses registered for the specific object. This way, the serial objects can be repaired according to a predefined repair flow, and the costs are always associated with the specific serial object.
A large amount of the objects that can be repaired in the workshop are however so-called non-individuals. These objects can be repaired for certain, but you are not willing to spend money on the administrative costs that arise when they are registered in the system. These non-serial parts can therefore not be seen as parts of the facility structure. They cannot be traced in the system, and of course cannot carry any costs for repair. If someone takes out a repairable part, you can be sure that a part in a location within the facility is broken. Thus you now have the possibility to select the part deemed repairable, and upon issuing the non-serial part, the repair work order will automatically be created. The costs to repair the non-serial part will therefore cover the costs of the broken part. When the broken part is repaired, it will be delivered back to inventory afterwards. This process makes it possible to define for which inventory value you want to store the repaired part.
The repair work order is used in IFS/Maintenance, and in IFS Applications for Service Management.