Author: raywhite

Here’s a nice little video to help inspire you to track work orders on the assembly line with barcodes?

What… barcodes?

Yep, barcodes. Scroll down below the video for more…

Turns out, you can track orders on the assembly line with barcodes. Employees simply scan barcodes telling you who is working on what. Now you have timestamped records of the employee doing the work and the job they are doing.

The program we’re describing is Standard Time®.

Standard Time has the ability to collect time entries using barcodes. Just tack a few strategic codes to workbenches and you’re ready to start. Scan an employee name and job number. A timer will start. You’re now collecting the very basics. There are a lot more things to scan, but this is the start. Go ahead and download ST and try scanning. You’ll like it.  🙂

What if manufacturers had barcodes in 1944? Production would have doubled!

But alas, barcodes were not invented until 1974, thirty years later.

Well at least you have them. So what are you waiting for? Put them to use on the shop floor and double your production. We’ll show you how.

Employees can use barcodes to track their time and materials used. Just scan employee names and then job numbers. A timer will start, and will know how much time this employee took, and how long this job took. Wow! Yeah! Just two scans get you all that!

If you haven’t tried barcodes on the shop floor for production, you should. A few scans will collect enough information for employee time cards, process improvement and manufacturing metrics. We hope the little video below will inspire you to give barcodes a try.

Download Standard Time and start scanning today!

Did you know that employee manufacturing time can be tracked using barcodes? A few scans will start a timer, and a few scans will stop it again. Now you’ve collected some pretty valuable information you can use to improve the manufacturing process. What can you collect? (scroll down below the video for some ideas)

 

Things manufacturing metrics you can collect with barcodes:

1. Employee shift attendance
2. Work order manufacturing time
3. Process steps within each work order
4. Inventory
5. Client hours for invoicing
6. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
   1. Machine speed
   2. Yield
   3. Operating time

Find “Standard Time®” on Google, and download a copy to begin collecting mfg data with barcodes. It’s a good product you’ll like.

How do you track employee time on the shop floor? Here are some popular solutions available on Amazon or other retail outlets:

1. Yell across the shop floor when your job is done
2. Number 2 pencil, greasy sheet which is lost 33% of the time (you hope)
3. Punch-clock built in the late 1970’s but mostly still keeps time
4. Nothing beats a good guess

With these leading solutions in place, you should not even consider barcode time tracking solutions. Don’t even think the words “Standard Time®” or you could be fired. Don’t rock the boat… don’t change… everything will be fine… your shop will remain just as competitive as it was in 1988. Cuz, really… Standard Time shop floor software is just a passing fad. It’ll never catch on. See ya in the 90’s!    🙂