Run your shop floor or any manufacturing with this inexpensive tablet from Wal-Mart and a barcode scanner from Amazon. (Scroll down for video)
For about $200 you can have a wireless barcode station on the shop floor. Scan every job, and you will know the follow information about your operation:
- How much time each employee works on shop floor jobs
- How much time each product takes to manufacture, assemble, and ship
- How long each step of the process takes
- How many jobs you did in a week, month, quarter, or year
- Your average time per job
- Your average completion time
- Your worst job time
- Your best job time
This is how you eek out percentage points in efficiency. You trim one small thing at a time. And you keep trimming until your operation is as efficient as possible.