Here’s a simple utilitarian video to introduce you to the UI configuration capabilities in Standard Time. Use these techniques to rearrange things in ST to suit your needs.
Prep For QuickBooks Time and Materials
Follow the steps in this video to prepare your manufacturing, engineering, and employee timesheets for QuickBooks. Aligning your timesheets to QB is not hard, but you need to know how QB expects information to be assembled. This video makes it clear.
QuickBooks Invoices From MFG Jobs
Here’s an overview of the connection from Standard Time® to QuickBooks® Online®. And more specifically, how to create an invoice in QuickBooks from time and materials in ST.
Time and materials are collected using barcode scans on the shop floor. Once collected, they can be sent to QB for invoicing.
Smart Phones for Manufacturing
Use your cell phone on the manufacturing floor to track job status, employee hours, and report inventory usage. You can even scan barcodes. The Standard Time® cloud lets you do everything on your phone. Give it a try!
Employee Timesheets
A timesheet so easy your cat can use it!
All your projects are listed — ONLY your projects.
All your tasks are listed — again ONLY your tasks.
All you have to do is fill in your hours. But don’t let your cat do it. You’re boss can tell the difference! 🙂
Manufacturing Challenges
Use Standard Time® to solve manufacturing challenges. Challenges like, knowing where every job is all the time, and like knowing how much time you spend doing them, and like how much inventory those jobs consume.
Try out the barcode scanning capabilities and let us know your results!
Chromebook Track Jobs With RFID
Watch how we use these two Chromebooks to track manufacturing products with RFID tags. Just scan once and you get a timestamped record of the location of your job.
Consider using sticky-label RFID tags on all your boxes, inventory, products, and jobs so they can be tracked through the shop. You’ll know when, where, and who scanned.
Manufacturing Engineer’s Nerve Center Part 2
Hey, nerds! Did you actually watch the Nerve Center Part 1 video?
You did? Seriously? Then you are a nerd.
You will love Part 2 below. It expands upon the nerdishly nerdish capabilities in Standard Time. You’ll need every last drop of this for your staff meetings and weekly tech-drops. Nobody will be more informed than you. Nobody will have more manufacturing job info than you. You are nerd king.
Tell us what you think!
Manufacturing Engineer’s Nerve Center Part 1
Calling all nerd engineers! You will want to memorize this!
Standard Time® has so many valuable capabilities and areas for nerds. Dig into the details, dig into the numbers, dig into the dashboards! This is where nerds earn gold stars for nerdiness, and where the rest of the company gets valuable manufacturing data. Of course, it all starts with barcode scans on the shop floor, and builds into actionable data. Get started today!
Manufacturers Embrace Automation
You can automate your shop! With barcodes and RFID!
Try scanning in Standard Time® and see what happens. You’ll instantly see where your work orders are, how long they took to complete, and who’s your best employee. Already know who your best employee is? Hey, you might be surprised!