A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Learn how to automatically assign tasks to workstations or machines for job scheduling. This video shows how “Skills” or machine purposes, or kinds of work are used to assign tasks to machines so that jobs are scheduled to run at the next available time slots.
Got a hot job that needs to run now? There’s a menu command for that.
How about a low-priority job? There’s a menu command for that.
Get inspiration to schedule jobs with the quick video below.
Get started with Time Off accruals in Standard Time. After all, it’s more than just scanning barcodes on the shop floor. It’s also employee maintenance and management, which includes PTO requests and time off accruals.
Set all the policies for hourly time off accruals, then let them run automatically. Hours will accrue day-by-day, week-by-week, or month-by-month. Then they will be deducted as employees request time off. Easy!
Allow this “short” to inspire you. Then give it a try yourself!
Standard Time is more than just a manufacturing job tracker. It also allows employees to request time off, usually for the purpose of PTO, sick, personal and other reasons.
ST manages time off requests with manager approvals, automatic weekly and monthly accruals, use-it-or-lose it policies, and for visualizing employee availability.
So… continue using ST for shop floor job status, but consider also using it for employee time management, including time off.
Real time employee status can be achieved by scanning barcodes and RFID’s on the shop floor. Just scan to start, then scan again to stop. Now you know exactly where your jobs are, who is working on them, and what each employee is doing at any time.
You’re probably familiar with the Time Logs page in Standard Time, right? It’s that list of barcode scans from the shop floor? Or, the list of hourly entries from employee timesheets?
Yeah, that one!
Well, did you know there’s a nice dashboard that shows time logs on a bar chart. Take a look at the video below, and try it out!
Filtering Standard Time pages helps you find the information you’re looking for. How so? Without filtering, you’re seeing all records mixed together without categorization or grouping. Some of those records won’t fit the criteria you’re thinking of. They just get in the way, and obscure the ones you’re really trying to find.
How can you remedy that? Filtering!
Simply choose filter (aka search) criteria from the tree at the left. That eliminates rows that don’t fit your search, and shows only those you’re looking for.
Try the filter tree. It’s really handy and nice!
Hang a big TV on your factory floor to display job status.
This little video below shows how to use a Chromebook to display shop floor job status on a 75-in TV. Employees can look up and see the current status of every job in production.
Want to reduce unnecessary shop floor communication? This is how to do it.
Those kinds of questions are answered immediately by a status display like this.
Here’s a unique idea!
Do you have preprinted QR codes, RFID’s or barcodes coming into your shop that you want to scan and perform actions on?
Consider using “Barcode Rules” in Standard Time. You can set up a few easy rules to recognize those scans, then a few more rules to extract data from them. Now you don’t need to preregister anything to use them. Just scan-and-go! When you scan, Standard Time will grab data from the QR codes, RFID’s, and barcodes and use that to start a new timer or deduct from inventory.
Watch the video for inspiration and ideas.
Watch what happens when you scan a QR code into the Standard Time software.
This little video is very enlightening!
Standard Time extracts all the information necessary for employee time tracking and job status directly from the QR code. It registers all the information so you don’t have to enter it manually. That means less admin work. A single scan starts everything!
Watch the video below to see it happen.
Here’s a pithy saying: QR codes change the whole manufacturing ballgame. (watch the “short” video below)
How to they change the ballgame? What’s so special about QR codes in manufacturing?