A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Job status. This is how you get it:
Got a big job? Why not try Standard Time®. It’s made for big jobs.
Standard Time has the capability to handle a lot of tasks, and a lot or resources assigned to those tasks. It’s got big tools like Gantt charts, Resource Allocation Charts, Manpower charts, and drag-and-drop calendars.
Give it a try!
Hey, manufacturing managers. This is what they say about you after hours! Haha!
Watch below, and enjoy a little ribbing and roasting!
Prepping work orders for barcode scanning in Standard Time® may include the use of a “Project Assistant.” This video describes creating jobs using this assistant.
Once you get into production in earnest, you probably won’t need the Project Assistant. Instead, you can right-click on an existing project and choose Duplicate.
Get inspired to scan!
Ever wonder what you can scan on the shop floor to automate employee time track, work order and inventory management? Here’s a list, and a video to inspire you. First click the link to open a whitepaper with the full list. Then watch the video for inspiration and ideas. Try applying one or two things from this list. Grow your manufacturing automation and become a hero!
Things to scan on the shop floor:
https://www.strdtime.com/things-to-scan-on-the-shop-floor
The full video:
Follow these steps to prep a new job for the shop floor. Once prepped, employees can scan the job name and tasks. A timer will start. They can scan again to stop that timer. Now you’ve got timestamped records of all employee working on jobs.
Fab shops use Standard Time and barcodes for job tracking. Here’s how:
scroll down for a little inspiration video
And then read this:
Set up a $70 scanning tablet where employees can scan jobs. Tell them to start by scanning their name. Then scan a job number. A timer starts, and the employee is free to walk off and start the work. When they finish, they return to the scanning station, scan their name again, and then the word STOP. That’s it!
Now you’ve got timestamped records of job status. Wow, that was easy!
Give it a try at the Standard Time cloud site.
Hey, want an airport “arrivals” and “departures” screen for your jobs on the shop floor? Watch this video for some inspiration. What you need is a “Work In Progress” screen. It shows all your manufacturing jobs currently on the shop floor.
Manufacturing engineers use barcodes and dashboards to track employee hours, jobs, status, customer orders. Watch this little video for inspiration. 🙂
Here’s a quick way to find if timers are running for time logs, projects, users, and project tasks. This lets you check shop floor timer status, which is usually started by scanning barcodes.
Your employees are starting timers in Standard Time with barcodes, right? Those timers use projects, tasks, and people, true? Then the method in this video should help you identify which jobs, tasks, and people have timers running at any given time. Simple!
Check them after everybody has clocked in and out to make sure everything is as expected.
Watch the video and let us know what you think!