A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Want an enterprise resource planner without paying a million dollars and then signing up for another million-dollar implementation schedule? It is possible.
Have you considered Standard Time?
This little video may inspire you to give it a try. We’ll even help you out, without the million dollars. 🙂
Turns out, you can scan a lot of things on the shop floor. But why? Well… to track work orders, employee hours, materials, inventory coming in and out, and a few other goodies.
In other words, automate the shop floor.
What’s WIP? Work In Progress. By scanning the items above, you get a nice dashboard of your work in progress, also known as WIP. You see the jobs in progress, and who’s working on them. Use that to predict completion times, communicate to sales, shipping, and clients.
As Bill Gates used to say, Information at your fingertips! Or… on the shop wall. 🙂
Your family and friends know your awesome. But show your coworkers you are!
Your employees can now tell you what their doing by simply scanning barcodes. That means you’ll have up-to-the-minute status of jobs, work orders, orders, and employees. Just scan and go in Standard Time®.
Here’s a fascinating idea! Set up a completely unmanned manufacturing shop. That’s right! Entirely automated, without employees, without human resources. Standard Time® can help when you’re ready.
Investing in CNC milling is a great investment for your manufacturing shop. But have you considered using Standard Time in connection with it?
What’s Standard Time?
It’s how you track jobs going through your shop. And how you track employee hours. And Work In Progress (WIP). Hopefully, the little video below will inspire you to try ST. Buy a barcode scanner, and use it to track work orders that travel through the shop. Let us know if we can help! 🙂
Manufacturers! Start the New Year using barcodes. Exactly how, you ask?
By scanning them to track time and materials.
Turns out, employees can scan work orders to start a timer. When they stop that timer, you have collected the hours worked and status for that job. All with just a few scans. No computer. No software. No sitting in front of a terminal with dirty hands. Just scan and go!
Watch the video and contact us for info!
Do you love the smell of steel? I love the smell of steel. And the numerous lubricants on the shop floor. And the smell of side-grinders, flux-core welders, and mig, and tig.
We hope you love Standard Time® barcoding software almost as much. 🙂
Metal workers do not sit down at workstations, and hunt and peck. I guarantee that!
So, how do you collect time and inventory usage for them? Uhhh… we don’t.
Try this: give them a barcode scanner and Standard Time®.
Want some new manufacturing shop floor software? Take a look at the video below, and download for yourself!