A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
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. 🙂
Shop floor operators can see upcoming jobs they are scheduled to work on, using a single scan.
The video below shows how to display a list of upcoming jobs operators are scheduled to work on today and this week.
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!
The weekend is gone before you know it! And now it’s Standard Time!
Standard Time?
Yep, time to track jobs with barcodes and RFID using the best manufacturing software available. Standard Time. Check it out!