Time Logs are the results of employee barcode scans on the shop floor. This is one of the first pages you will visit after starting a new Standard Time subscription. Experiment with filtering, sorting, and columns.
Have You Tried Scanning Inventory
Scanning inventory items can give you timestamped records of usage. It can show you cost for both time and materials, all from a few barcode scans.
Creating Work Orders and Barcodes For Scanning
Use the techniques in this video to automatically add new projects and tasks at the moment employees scan them. This eliminates the admin burden of adding them beforehand.
Here’s the problem:
Managers and supervisors must add new projects and tasks before employees can scan them.
Here’s the solution:
Create a barcode rule to automatically add them at the moment they are scanned.
Manage Robot Utilization
Robot Utilization. Are you tracking and optimizing it?
Consider using scheduling software to maximize use-time, but at the same time meeting customer delivery time.
This little video may help inspire you to try Standard Time® job management software. Feed jobs into one end, and get scheduled tasks that correspond to machine availability. Standard Time looks for empty slots and fills them with prioritized job tasks. That sounds like fun! 🙂
Creating Users And Barcodes For Scanning
Subscription Step 1: Add users and barcode labels, This will likely be the first admin task after starting a new Standard Time® subscription. You’ll need username records and barcode labels to scan when recording time and materials. This ties records to employees so you know who did the work.
Find Job Starting Date From Client Ship Date
How do you find the most appropriate starting date for a job based on the date requested by your client? Use this technique.
This little video shows how to use link relationships to look backward from a certain date to find the best starting date for your job. This isn’t tricky magic. It’s just math. 🙂
Collect Custom Manufacturing Data
Here’s a little video to help inspire you to collect custom manufacturing data on the shop floor. Use this technique to request special info from your employees on the shop floor. Special popups will occur. Employees must complete these popups before timers will start or stop. That ensures you get the data you need for KPI’s, calculations, scripts, exports and reports.
It all starts with “Required Scans.” Look it up and give it a try!
QuickBooks Online
Learn how to send time and expense information to QuickBooks.
Assembly Line Improvements
Make improvements on your manufacturing line with the aid of Standard Time®. This little video will act as an inspiration.
Add Your Logo To Reports
You’ll have your company logo on your custom reports with about a dozen clicks. Follow the steps below.