A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
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.
Part 2 of the automated job scheduling series goes deeper into workstation and task configuration. Watch the video below and try it for yourself.
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.
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!
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:
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.
Should I choose cloud or on-prem? This video helps answer that FAQ.
First off, both cloud and on-premise platforms are identical in functionality. Cloud is usually easiest because there are no IT entanglements or maintenance issues. On-prem is best when you want your data on your servers (not on someone else’s).
Watch the video below for helpful details on hosting choices.
Learn how to set customer and salary rates for the purpose of project costing, customer invoicing, and payroll. Standard Time will automatically calculate client and employee costs based on your internal rates.
Every barcode scan… every timesheet entry… every employee timer… it all gets calculated automatically.
Learn more here.
How to manage employee accounts in Standard Time. Make adjustments for user rights, experience, barcode scans, QuickBooks integration, Work In Progress, email notifications, timers, hours, logins, and more. Let us know if you have questions!
Follow the steps in this video to attach engineering and manufacturing drawings to jobs in Standard Time. This lets you view drawings when performing the project.
Employees can even pull up drawings with a special barcode scan.