Would you like to install the Standard Time Web Edition on your own local server? I.e. on-premise?
Here’s a good video for that. Scroll down below the video for an article that may have up-to-the-minute details.
Installation articles:
DOGE Department of Government Efficiency
This is precisely the tool for government, manufacturing, engineering, and civil jobs where efficiency and accountability is so hard to measure, and so easy to hide. Get some real data, guys!
Mfg Dashboards Enhanced by Scripts
Scripts can do a lot for you. And, show you a lot. Watch and find out!
What is a project task in Standard Time?
This video should help you understand the purpose and uses for project tasks in Standard Time. Consider using project tasks to schedule employee work, manage projects, and scan barcodes on the shop floor.
Work Order Efficiency
Tracking work order time is the first way to improve them. If you can learn how much time goes into each operation of a job you can use that to eek out small percentages of improvement. Or, in some cases completely alter your processes. Sometimes small “bugs” in operational processes are actually just tips of the iceberg. That’s why work order tracking has value.
Consider this little video an inspiration to try the Standard Time® tracking capabilities. You might find something worth correcting. 🙂
What is a project in Standard Time?
Learn what you can do with projects in Standard Time®. Projects represent manufacturing work orders, jobs, sales orders, or any long term work.
Watch the video below for inspiration on how to align your processes to ST projects. You’ll see all the properties of projects. Some may align with your own operations, some may not. Let us know if we’re missing something you absolutely must have!
What is a folder in Standard Time?
What is a folder in Standard Time? It’s just a way of categorizing or putting things, kind-of like folders on your computer. I.e. a place to put them. A bucket.
Use folders to put jobs into buckets. Or inventory into buckets. Or expenses, or any other thing in Standard Time.
The nice thing about folders is that you can find all the time and materials from shop floor activity that is in them.
Time Log Calendar
Still living in the 1980’s with your VCR and car phone? Then this little shorty will inspire you!
This little quickie is a nice reminder to view shop floor barcode scans in a calendar view, even back to the 1980’s! Or whenever you started scanning jobs into Standard Time.
You probably already know that your barcode scans are visible in the Time Logs page, but have you tried the Time Logs calendar? That’s a whole different animal, and it might give you some “rad” new intel. 🙂
Give it a try. Get modern! Get Rad! Get with the 80’s!
Work Order Tracking
This little video may inspire you to try some automated work order tracking techniques like barcodes, QR codes, or RFIDs.
Scan your job at every workstation. You’ll collect the employee who logged it, the location, task being performed, and some other valuable data.
Want to learn more? See the URL’s at the end of the video.
Project Task Link Relationships
Do you need to delay the starting date of a task until another task has finished? That’s a link relationship! This video shows how to create that link relationship, and what they look like in a Gantt chart.
Watch for the words Predecessor and Successor. Those are important labels we give to tasks that precede and to tasks that succeed others. In other words, upstream and downstream tasks… before and after.
Predecessors and Successors are important for scheduling jobs and tasks.