A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
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!
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.
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. 🙂
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!
Make improvements on your manufacturing line with the aid of Standard Time®. This little video will act as an inspiration.
Need to integrate Standard Time with external systems like ERP’s? Try using “Scheduled Exports” or “Scheduled Scripts” in ST.
These functions allow you to send data daily to external databases or systems. The video below may help. Let us know if you need help configuring scheduled exports.
Use this short video to learn how to customize stock reports in Standard Time®. You can build reports that display barcode scans, or work order status, or custom CSV exports for ERP systems.
Schedule jobs on the shop floor. Or rather… set parameters that allow Standard Time® to schedule jobs itself.
What?
Schedule jobs itself? Yep, ST can tell you when your work orders should start based on priorities and other committed projects. Have you tried it?
Use this little dashboard for the status of your manufacturing jobs. You’ll see the detail of each task or process step, the percent complete, and whether those tasks have been started or finished. (scroll down to watch)
Sometimes you just want to say, “What’s going on with my job?”
This dashboard provides the answer. And, it gives you the comfort of knowing something is happening, and will likely finish at a certain time. Usually, that’s all you want to know. So… try this on your copy of Standard Time®. And let us know how it works for you!
Make manufacturing improvements using real-time data. Collect work order and employee status on the shop floor, then change your processes to cut costs and improve efficiency. Here’s a little inspiration.