A project management blog for manufacturing and engineering
Shop floor improvements start with real-time data. If you can measure it, you can improve it.
Have you tried barcodes and QR codes to track job status? How about inventory and material usage?
Start here for answers: Standard Time Manufacturing Software
Excel makes a nice analysis tool. Try these steps to get more from your shop-floor barcode scans. In just a few clicks, you’ll get some valuable intel you can use to improve manufacturing processes.
These fake workers are looking at fake jobs for the purpose of inspiring you!
Did it work? Haha!
In actuality, Standard Time® gives you real data, for real jobs, for real WIP status. That should be inspiring!
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We’re in the golden age of manufacturing!
And Las Vegas is the place for it. And… Standard Time manufacturing software is the program to run your new shop from. Try that willing combination!
Tracking work order time is the first way to improve them. If you can learn how much time goes into each operation of a job you can use that to eek out small percentages of improvement. Or, in some cases completely alter your processes. Sometimes small “bugs” in operational processes are actually just tips of the iceberg. That’s why work order tracking has value.
Consider this little video an inspiration to try the Standard Time® tracking capabilities. You might find something worth correcting. 🙂
Still living in the 1980’s with your VCR and car phone? Then this little shorty will inspire you!
This little quickie is a nice reminder to view shop floor barcode scans in a calendar view, even back to the 1980’s! Or whenever you started scanning jobs into Standard Time.
You probably already know that your barcode scans are visible in the Time Logs page, but have you tried the Time Logs calendar? That’s a whole different animal, and it might give you some “rad” new intel. 🙂
Give it a try. Get modern! Get Rad! Get with the 80’s!
This little video may inspire you to try some automated work order tracking techniques like barcodes, QR codes, or RFIDs.
Scan your job at every workstation. You’ll collect the employee who logged it, the location, task being performed, and some other valuable data.
Want to learn more? See the URL’s at the end of the video.
Real time employee status can be achieved by scanning barcodes and RFID’s on the shop floor. Just scan to start, then scan again to stop. Now you know exactly where your jobs are, who is working on them, and what each employee is doing at any time.
Hang a big TV on your factory floor to display job status.
This little video below shows how to use a Chromebook to display shop floor job status on a 75-in TV. Employees can look up and see the current status of every job in production.
Want to reduce unnecessary shop floor communication? This is how to do it.
Those kinds of questions are answered immediately by a status display like this.
Schedule jobs for your manufacturing shop. The video below describes the use of calendars and graphs for job scheduling. Your factory resources almost always have limited availability, and must be considered when scheduling new work. This is how to do it. Have a look and let us know what you think!