Welder Earns PhD on Barstool

Hey, manufacturing managers. This is what they say about you after hours!  Haha!

Watch below, and enjoy a little ribbing and roasting!

Project Assistant For Mfg Work Orders

Prepping work orders for barcode scanning in Standard Time® may include the use of a “Project Assistant.” This video describes creating jobs using this assistant.

Once you get into production in earnest, you probably won’t need the Project Assistant. Instead, you can right-click on an existing project and choose Duplicate.

Things to Scan on the Shop Floor

Get inspired to scan!

Ever wonder what you can scan on the shop floor to automate employee time track, work order and inventory management? Here’s a list, and a video to inspire you. First click the link to open a whitepaper with the full list. Then watch the video for inspiration and ideas. Try applying one or two things from this list. Grow your manufacturing automation and become a hero!

Things to scan on the shop floor:
https://www.strdtime.com/things-to-scan-on-the-shop-floor

The full video:

Prepping a New Manufacturing Job

Follow these steps to prep a new job for the shop floor. Once prepped, employees can scan the job name and tasks. A timer will start. They can scan again to stop that timer. Now you’ve got timestamped records of all employee working on jobs.

Fabrication Shops Use Barcodes

Fab shops use Standard Time and barcodes for job tracking. Here’s how:

scroll down for a little inspiration video

And then read this:
Set up a $70 scanning tablet where employees can scan jobs. Tell them to start by scanning their name. Then scan a job number. A timer starts, and the employee is free to walk off and start the work. When they finish, they return to the scanning station, scan their name again, and then the word STOP. That’s it!

Now you’ve got timestamped records of job status. Wow, that was easy!

Give it a try at the Standard Time cloud site.

 

Manufacturing Work In Progress

Hey, want an airport “arrivals” and “departures” screen for your jobs on the shop floor? Watch this video for some inspiration. What you need is a “Work In Progress” screen. It shows all your manufacturing jobs currently on the shop floor.

Engineers Track Employee Progress

Manufacturing engineers use barcodes and dashboards to track employee hours, jobs, status, customer orders. Watch this little video for inspiration.  🙂

 

Barcode Timers Running on Shop Floor

Here’s a quick way to find if timers are running for time logs, projects, users, and project tasks. This lets you check shop floor timer status, which is usually started by scanning barcodes.

Your employees are starting timers in Standard Time with barcodes, right? Those timers use projects, tasks, and people, true? Then the method in this video should help you identify which jobs, tasks, and people have timers running at any given time. Simple!

Check them after everybody has clocked in and out to make sure everything is as expected.

Watch the video and let us know what you think!

 

Even Robots Use Barcodes

Here’s a wild idea: Affix barcodes or RFID tags to your robots. As they perform tasks, they will also scan values useful to manufacturing KPI’s. Use those values in advanced calculations that help define your business. Display those values on a dashboard so everyone can view them.

Did you know Standard Time® can do all those things?

Here’s a little video to help inspire you. Hope you like it!

Shop Manager’s Use our Software

This is the software shop managers and supervisors use to track work orders going through production. Hopefully, this little video will inspire you to try it.