A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Do you have employees manually entering hours into the Standard Time timesheet? Or, barcoding on the shop floor? If so, here’s a nice tool to approve weekly timesheets. (scroll down for video)
Once the pay periods have been approved, you can run reports, pay employees, or bill clients for work.
Pay periods could include M-F weeks or semi-monthly periods. You approve the entire period with a single click.
QR Codes in manufacturing make tracking work orders easy and painless. Simply print a QR code with your work order, process step, and other values. Scan the QR and Standard Time will start a timer. Scan again, and ST will stop the timer. It’s really that simple.
Scripts can enhance any Standard Time® dashboard. Just write a SQL script to query or compute values, then right-click on a grid header to insert a new column with the script. The script is run for every line in the grid, so display values from scripts are based on data in each line. Pretty nice trick!
Learn techniques to manage employee multitasking. Specifically, these techniques involve scanning barcodes to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
Employees might be splitting time between multiple jobs as they prepare materials that apply to more than one client or job. Each job gets a little of the total time. Consider this a part of your employee time management strategy.
Scripts can do a lot for you. And, show you a lot. Watch and find out!
This video should help you understand the purpose and uses for project tasks in Standard Time. Consider using project tasks to schedule employee work, manage projects, and scan barcodes on the shop floor.
Do you need to delay the starting date of a task until another task has finished? That’s a link relationship! This video shows how to create that link relationship, and what they look like in a Gantt chart.
Watch for the words Predecessor and Successor. Those are important labels we give to tasks that precede and to tasks that succeed others. In other words, upstream and downstream tasks… before and after.
Predecessors and Successors are important for scheduling jobs and tasks.
Part 2 of the automated job scheduling series goes deeper into workstation and task configuration. Watch the video below and try it for yourself.
Learn how to automatically assign tasks to workstations or machines for job scheduling. This video shows how “Skills” or machine purposes, or kinds of work are used to assign tasks to machines so that jobs are scheduled to run at the next available time slots.
Got a hot job that needs to run now? There’s a menu command for that.
How about a low-priority job? There’s a menu command for that.
Get inspiration to schedule jobs with the quick video below.
You’re probably familiar with the Time Logs page in Standard Time, right? It’s that list of barcode scans from the shop floor? Or, the list of hourly entries from employee timesheets?
Yeah, that one!
Well, did you know there’s a nice dashboard that shows time logs on a bar chart. Take a look at the video below, and try it out!