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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!
You don’t have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane to demonstrate your trust in your fellow man. Give Standard Time® a try instead! It’s not quite so scary. Trust us on that point!
Have you considered using barcodes to track employee time? Watch the short video below, and contact us at www.stdtime.com. He’ll help you get started!
During manufacturing managers follow work orders using our software. Here’s how.
Every time a work order is touched on the shop floor, it is scanned. A barcode label indicates the job number. Scan it, and managers know where that job is. Scan it multiple times, and managers know which employees are working on it. Now, display all that information in a WIP screen. Everybody now knows where the job is. Just look up on the big-screen for details.
We hope you’re inspired to give it a try! Download Standard Time today!
There are a lot of new assembly line ideas coming into the Standard Time® manufacturing software product. Ideas from other manufacturers. Ideas on how to do things better. Give us a call, and we’ll share what we know. 🙂
Did they track inventory items on the shop floor in the 19th Century? Yes, they did! With all the diligence and accuracy that a nib pen and inkwell offered. Legers were filled and filed. Accounting was checked and rechecked. Inventory was reordered and restocked.
Nothing has changed.
Except the technology. (scroll down below the video for a few words)
Has anything changed in inventory management in the last hundred years?
Technology has changed!
You’ve got barcode scanners now. That alone reduces tracking and human error by a large factor. It means clerks with nib pens and paper legers are no longer trailing workers to enter inventory items consumed on the shop floor. It means operators are no longer yelling across the shop floor, “I used another box of bolts!”
Standard Time has changed.
No… not the shift from daylight savings to Standard Time. We’re talking about the time and materials tracker: Standard Time®. ST is the manufacturing resource manager you need for inventory tracking on the shop floor.
Download Standard Time and give inventory management a try.