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Work Order Tracking

Work Order Tracking That Keeps Manufacturing Moving

Manufacturing moves fast, and paper travelers, whiteboards, and spreadsheets simply can’t keep up. If you don’t know where every work order is, who is working on it, or how much time has already been invested, you’re making decisions with incomplete information.

Standard Time® Work Order Tracking gives manufacturers real-time visibility into production from the moment a job is released until it’s complete.

Employees simply scan a barcode or RFID tag to start, pause, transfer, and complete work orders. Managers instantly know:

  • Where every work order is located
  • Who is currently working on it
  • Actual labor time versus estimates
  • Production bottlenecks before they become delays
  • Which jobs are ahead—or behind—schedule

Because work order status is updated automatically as employees scan jobs, supervisors spend less time chasing information and more time improving production.

Standard Time also integrates work order tracking with labor collection, project management, inventory, materials, and reporting, giving you a complete picture of your manufacturing operation—not just isolated data.

Whether you operate a CNC machine shop, fabrication facility, assembly line, or custom manufacturing business, Standard Time helps eliminate guesswork, improve accountability, and increase on-time delivery.

Stop wondering where your work orders are. Know instantly.

Learn more about Standard Time® Work Order Tracking at www.strdtime.com.

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Barcode Rules Automate Factory Floor

Barcode rules can ease the burden of manufacturing managers by eliminating admin work. How?

Standard Time® can intelligently recognize barcode scans, and do things with them. This video shows how barcode rules can automatically create new work orders and tasks at the moment employees scan them. This means manufacturing managers do not need to set them up ahead of time. There is no admin setup time; there is just real-time recognition and auto-setup.

Watch this video!

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Barcode Scanning Messages For Employees

Want to send private messages to employees as they scan barcodes? Here’s how!

Messages will appear as employees scan work order barcodes. Those messages are normally connected to work orders, tasks or inventory. Messages often contain instructions, order details, critical production notes, or just helpful tips. You decide. You create your own messages. Employees will see them as they scan jobs on the shop floor. Messages help reduce verbal communication and misunderstandings.

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Find Job Starting Date From Client Ship Date

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.  🙂

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Collect Custom Manufacturing Data

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!

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Assembly Line Improvements

Make improvements on your manufacturing line with the aid of Standard Time®. This little video will act as an inspiration.

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Scheduled Exports Automate Integration

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.

 

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Customizing Standard Time Reports

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.

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So Easy They Schedule Themselves!

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?

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Job Status Dashboard

Use this little dashboard for the status of your manufacturing jobs. You’ll see the detail of each task or process step, the percent complete, and whether those tasks have been started or finished.  (scroll down to watch)

Sometimes you just want to say, “What’s going on with my job?”

This dashboard provides the answer. And, it gives you the comfort of knowing something is happening, and will likely finish at a certain time. Usually, that’s all you want to know. So… try this on your copy of Standard Time®. And let us know how it works for you!