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Chromebook Track Jobs With RFID

Watch how we use these two Chromebooks to track manufacturing products with RFID tags. Just scan once and you get a timestamped record of the location of your job.

Consider using sticky-label RFID tags on all your boxes, inventory, products, and jobs so they can be tracked through the shop. You’ll know when, where, and who scanned.

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Track Manufacturing Time with RFID Tags

Put an RFID tag on every product. That will allow you to track it through the production process. (scroll down for video)

RFID tags cost about ten cents in volume, and one cent in really high volume. That makes them affordable enough to stick onto every product on the shop floor. Or have you already done that? In any case, now that you have them, you can track the time each product spends in production.

  • Scan once to start a timer
  • Scan again to stop the timer

Guess what? Now you have timestamps for every time you touched that unit. Add them up and you know the exact handling time. Here are some thing you could track:

  1. Track manufacturing time
  2. Track handling time
  3. Track employee time
  4. Track shipping and receiving

Watch the RFID video below and then download Standard Time®.

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Barcoding in Manufacturing is Easy!

Barcoding is easy. Just slap a barcode or RFID on every box. If that box holds materials, you’re tracking what’s used in manufacturing. If that box holds a product, you’re tracking time spent manufacturing and developing it. Easy. Scroll down for the video below.

Barcodes and RFID tags let you collect these ten things:

  1. The time each employee spends on the factory floor or the warehouse
  2. The time each product takes to manufacture, package, and ship
  3. The time each task takes
  4. The time you spend on each kind of work
  5. How many items pass through your assembly line, building, department, or whole operation
  6. How many times you touch a single item
  7. The times of day you’re doing most of the work
  8. The materials you’re putting into products
  9. The expenses you’re incurring
  10. The percent complete each product is currently at

Wouldn’t you like to have that information? If so, watch this video and then go out to www.stdtime.com/barcode.htm.  You’ll find resources to help. To start, you’ll see the very basics of time tracking with RFID and barcode labels. Then, you’ll step up to more advanced techniques that let you collect time and materials, and use percent gauges to motivate employees to finish up jobs quickly.