A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Here is an overview of Standard Time from a livestream webinar. It covers the very basics, and may help inspire you to try some of the features and capabilities in the program.
After viewing this overview, check out the ScoutwestInc YouTube channel for detailed videos.
Operators can use their cellphone’s on the shop floor to start timers for work orders, jobs, and projects. Just speak, and timers start automatically!
Yep, that’s right! Just speak to start work order timers!
Why is this valuable? Because everybody carries a mobile phone, and they are easy devices to record time, even on the job site.
Watch this little video to learn how.
The weekend is gone before you know it! And now it’s Standard Time!
Standard Time?
Yep, time to track jobs with barcodes and RFID using the best manufacturing software available. Standard Time. Check it out!
Have a warehouse? No? How about material racks? In any case, it’s easy to track inventory usage with barcodes. Just scan your name and the SKU. That item is now deducted from stock. Geez, that was simple.
Watch the video below for inspiration.
It turns out Standard Time® will also reorder inventory when it drops below a certain level. You get an email, and in some cases new materials show up at your back door the next day. That’s just in time inventory with Standard Time.
Rolling a “percentage” rock up a hill? Yeah, it sort-of makes sense. It’s a metaphor for working to increase your percentages. Okay, I get that, but percentages of what? And, what am I doing to increase those percentages?
Scroll down for a little inspiring video.
First, the percentages are your manufacturing efficiencies. I.e. how efficient you are at producing products. And second, you are working to improve your manufacturing efficiencies. So how do you do that?
Automation.
We suggest barcoding everything. Every work order. Every step in the process. Every consumable material. And every task employees perform. Now you can analyze that information for clues to inefficiencies.
Find those inefficiencies, and you improve your percentages. You’re rolling the percentage rock up the hill!
Shop floors can get messy but that is because work is being done. In the end, you still need to track work orders and employee time , even in a hostile environment. Consider barcodes, or even RFID for time tracking in such places.
RFID is completely solid-state, and immune to dust and chemicals. just swipe and go. Nothing bothers RFID… not dust, dirt, grease and grime, grinding dust, or oils. It’s really the best choice for hostile shop floors.
Here’s a little video to inspire and remind you to try Standard Time® with RFID or barcodes.
Manage Work In Progress (WIP), work order status, and employee hours with barcodes on the shop floor.
This little video will inspire you to give it a try. When you’re ready, download a copy of Standard Time. It’s easy!
Everybody knows about employee time tracking. But what about tracking machine time? I.e. the hours machines are being operated. Hmm, that’s a different thought. (scroll down for the video for inspiration)
Actually, tracking machine time is not an original thought. Just like airplanes, there are hour meters attached to machines. Turn them on, and the meter ticks away. So that’s nothing new.
What’s new is that you can now associate employees, work orders, and tasks to those hours. You can use Standard Time® to know which employee used that machine. Which work order were run on that machine. Which tasks were performed. That’s manufacturing traceability. You can now trace work order activity down to the machines it was produced on. That’s some cool magic. That’s Standard Time®.
Have you considered tracking production time with barcode scanners? Here’s a cute little video help help inspire you. Hope you like it. 🙂
Oh, BTW… Standard Time® is the program to download.
If you’re running a manufacturing shop… and you got employees… and you got work orders… and you got tasks… and you got schedules… then you probably need a calendar to put them on. And likely more.
Well, that’s Standard Time®
It’s a manufacturer’s project management tool, otherwise knows as ERP/MRP. In other words, it’s for managing jobs and employees at the same time.
This little video demonstrates one way to simplify that management. Take a look!