A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Look at this interesting solution for inventory and warehouse management!
It’s not just “where’s my stuff?” It’s “how many are on hand?” and “how many are at each warehouse location?” and a whole bunch of other questions.
And, it’s also tracking employee and work order time along with materials consumed on each job. All with barcodes! Check it out!
Learn techniques to manage employee multitasking. Specifically, these techniques involve scanning barcodes to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
Employees might be splitting time between multiple jobs as they prepare materials that apply to more than one client or job. Each job gets a little of the total time. Consider this a part of your employee time management strategy.
MAGA Manufacturing is found in Standard Time!
Watch the video below for inspiration. It might trigger new ideas and things to help make America Great Again! Or, at least your manufacturing shop great again. Good luck, friends! 🙂
Would you like to install the Standard Time Web Edition on your own local server? I.e. on-premise?
Here’s a good video for that. Scroll down below the video for an article that may have up-to-the-minute details.
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This is precisely the tool for government, manufacturing, engineering, and civil jobs where efficiency and accountability is so hard to measure, and so easy to hide. Get some real data, guys!
Scripts can do a lot for you. And, show you a lot. Watch and find out!
This video should help you understand the purpose and uses for project tasks in Standard Time. Consider using project tasks to schedule employee work, manage projects, and scan barcodes on the shop floor.
Tracking work order time is the first way to improve them. If you can learn how much time goes into each operation of a job you can use that to eek out small percentages of improvement. Or, in some cases completely alter your processes. Sometimes small “bugs” in operational processes are actually just tips of the iceberg. That’s why work order tracking has value.
Consider this little video an inspiration to try the Standard Time® tracking capabilities. You might find something worth correcting. 🙂
Learn what you can do with projects in Standard Time®. Projects represent manufacturing work orders, jobs, sales orders, or any long term work.
Watch the video below for inspiration on how to align your processes to ST projects. You’ll see all the properties of projects. Some may align with your own operations, some may not. Let us know if we’re missing something you absolutely must have!
What is a folder in Standard Time? It’s just a way of categorizing or putting things, kind-of like folders on your computer. I.e. a place to put them. A bucket.
Use folders to put jobs into buckets. Or inventory into buckets. Or expenses, or any other thing in Standard Time.
The nice thing about folders is that you can find all the time and materials from shop floor activity that is in them.