Posted on

Tap-To- Start

Tap-To-Start is a nice alternative to barcode scanning on the factory floor. It allows employees to tap jobs and tasks instead of scanning. In some cases, that may be easier than deploying a full scanner. After all, waiters do it every day at their hostess stations. So why not on the factory floor.

The results of Tap-To-Start is identical to barcode scanning. But the process may be simpler in some cases.

Tap-To-Start is tailored to the user who is logged in, or to the employee who taps their name. It only shows jobs and tasks they are assigned to. That limits the number of items to scroll through.

Posted on

Barcode Rules Automate Factory Floor

Barcode rules can ease the burden of manufacturing managers by eliminating admin work. How?

Standard Time® can intelligently recognize barcode scans, and do things with them. This video shows how barcode rules can automatically create new work orders and tasks at the moment employees scan them. This means manufacturing managers do not need to set them up ahead of time. There is no admin setup time; there is just real-time recognition and auto-setup.

Watch this video!

Posted on

Barcode Scanning Messages For Employees

Want to send private messages to employees as they scan barcodes? Here’s how!

Messages will appear as employees scan work order barcodes. Those messages are normally connected to work orders, tasks or inventory. Messages often contain instructions, order details, critical production notes, or just helpful tips. You decide. You create your own messages. Employees will see them as they scan jobs on the shop floor. Messages help reduce verbal communication and misunderstandings.

Posted on

Welder Earns Enough Overtime To Buy Company

This is the best advice we’ve seen in a long time! Save your overtime pay and buy out your own company!

Hey… if they’re willing to pay overtime instead of deploying shop floor barcoding then they’re fair game for a hostile employee take-over!

Get ’em while they’re hot!

Posted on

Time Logs, Where to find barcode scans

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.

Posted on

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.

Posted on

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.

 

Posted on

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!  🙂

Posted on

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.

 

Posted on

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.  🙂