A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Consider using scheduling software to maximize use-time, but at the same time meeting customer delivery time.
This little video may help inspire you to try Standard Time® job management software. Feed jobs into one end, and get scheduled tasks that correspond to machine availability. Standard Time looks for empty slots and fills them with prioritized job tasks. That sounds like fun! 🙂
Subscription Step 1: Add users and barcode labels, This will likely be the first admin task after starting a new Standard Time® subscription. You’ll need username records and barcode labels to scan when recording time and materials. This ties records to employees so you know who did the work.
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!
Learn how to send time and expense information to QuickBooks.
Make improvements on your manufacturing line with the aid of Standard Time®. This little video will act as an inspiration.
You’ll have your company logo on your custom reports with about a dozen clicks. Follow the steps below.
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?