Scripts can enhance any Standard Time® dashboard. Just write a SQL script to query or compute values, then right-click on a grid header to insert a new column with the script. The script is run for every line in the grid, so display values from scripts are based on data in each line. Pretty nice trick!
Employee Multitasking
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.
Mfg Dashboards Enhanced by Scripts
Scripts can do a lot for you. And, show you a lot. Watch and find out!
What is a project task in Standard Time?
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.
Project Task Link Relationships
Do you need to delay the starting date of a task until another task has finished? That’s a link relationship! This video shows how to create that link relationship, and what they look like in a Gantt chart.
Watch for the words Predecessor and Successor. Those are important labels we give to tasks that precede and to tasks that succeed others. In other words, upstream and downstream tasks… before and after.
Predecessors and Successors are important for scheduling jobs and tasks.
Automatic Job Scheduling, Part 2
Part 2 of the automated job scheduling series goes deeper into workstation and task configuration. Watch the video below and try it for yourself.
- Begin by setting workstation resource type to “Machine”
- Set a skill into each workstation (so the scheduler can find it)
- Set a skill into each project task (so the scheduler can use it to find workstations)
- Right-click on a project
- Choose “Move to next time slot by skill assignment“
- Done! Tasks are assigned to workstations with start and finish dates
Automatic Job Scheduling, Part 1
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.
Time Log Chart Dashboard
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!
Everything you wanted to know about filtering Standard Time
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!
Tap To Start Shop Floor Manufacturing Jobs
Tap to start your manufacturing jobs. Tap… tap… tap is all it takes to record job status on the shop floor.
Follow this sequence to start a job timer:
- Tap your employee name
- Tap a job name
- Tap a task
That’s it! A new timer will start. You’ll get real-time timestamped records of job status. Watch this video for the steps and inspiration.