A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Hang a big TV on your factory floor to display job status.
This little video below shows how to use a Chromebook to display shop floor job status on a 75-in TV. Employees can look up and see the current status of every job in production.
Want to reduce unnecessary shop floor communication? This is how to do it.
Those kinds of questions are answered immediately by a status display like this.
Schedule jobs for your manufacturing shop. The video below describes the use of calendars and graphs for job scheduling. Your factory resources almost always have limited availability, and must be considered when scheduling new work. This is how to do it. Have a look and let us know what you think!
The little Project Assistant works hard. He guides you through the process of creating new jobs. It can be a thankless job, and he rarely gets back-slaps for the work he does. 🙂
Have you tried the Project Assistant?
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.
What can you expect from Standard Time manufacturing software?
This little video offers just a few. There are actually many other advantages and benefits. Check it out for yourself!
You must be scanning inventory in Standard Time, right?
Everybody does! So… yeah!
This YouTube Short tells what happens when you scan a Bill Of Materials. I.e. BOM. Turns out, each inventory item inside the BOM is deducted from inventory and emails are sent when stock is nearly depleted.
Can inventory get any cooler than that?
How long do your manufacturing jobs take? How long for each process step? And how long did each employee take on those jobs?
There is an elegant answer. Find out 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.
Consider allowing Standard Time to manage your job management. You’ll spend less time communicating job status, figuring out where jobs are, and who’s working on them.
Try ST in the cloud!