A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
You can add barcode time tracking to just about any manufacturing shop. Watch this little video for inspiration.
Just put a low-cost tablet on the shop floor. Add a barcode scanner to it. And now you’re tracking employee time! It’s pretty simple, actually.
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.
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.
Want to track inventory usage on the shop floor with barcodes? The video below will show you how. It’s not hard.
You’ll just need a barcode scanner connected to any tablet or computer. Print your own barcode labels, or scan SKU’s on existing inventory items. A single scan records usage.
You can’t get any simpler than that!
Track job progress with ST
Here is an overview of Standard Time from a livestream webinar. It covers the very basics, and may help inspire you to try some of the features and capabilities in the program.
After viewing this overview, check out the ScoutwestInc YouTube channel for detailed videos.
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.
You may have hundreds of project and thousands of tasks for engineering and production. This video shows how to manage those tasks in a calendar. Specifically, a graphical calendar that displays tasks on dates and hours of the day. Drag and drop tasks to various dates to manage start and finish dates. Then view a bar chart of future manpower efforts in what we call the “Resource Allocation” chart.
This video uses the Standard Time cloud test site.
Operators can use their cellphone’s on the shop floor to start timers for work orders, jobs, and projects. Just speak, and timers start automatically!
Yep, that’s right! Just speak to start work order timers!
Why is this valuable? Because everybody carries a mobile phone, and they are easy devices to record time, even on the job site.
Watch this little video to learn how.
Manufacturing engineers use barcodes and dashboards to track employee hours, jobs, status, customer orders. Watch this little video for inspiration. 🙂