Employee Downtime Tracking 1

[bugnut]

I am looking to find a piece of inexpensive software that employees can use to track downtime. Today they fill out a papersheet and the data must be entered by hand. This is arduous as we have 3 shift with 15-20 employees and the task is now consuming a bunch of resources-The data I want to track by operator and piece of machinery is, how much production time we lost for: maintenance, meetings, tooling up, lack of parts, lack of cutters or other features. Ideally i'd love to have this web based and be able to drag or populate automatically a couple of simple charts. I have spent a couple hours googling and looking at programs, both shareware & commercial but cannot find anything very simple and that a shop floor employee can use with simple pulldown or similiar menus. Would appreciate any direction....

bugnut

 

[MikeHalloran]

How do you track their UPtime?

Give them a couple of special project numbers to use on their timesheets, or add suffixes to the regular project numbers, or something like that.

Let whoever has to decode the time sheets have a say in how to do it.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[PSE]

Can you set up spreadsheets where the employees can directly enter their time? With some simple formatting and sheet protection you should be able to have something up quickly. You could then pull the data and generate your reports as needed. You ought to be able to accommodate the employees by providing access through maybe 1 or 2 PCs. If they do not have Excel or Microsoft office, an excellent alternative is Open Office.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Regards,

 

[tomwalz]

We do what PSE suggests. Cheap PC on shop floor with Excel.

Everyone enters own data.

Tom

Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.

http://www.carbideprocessors.com