Track Time and Materials With Barcodes


Production Time Tracking using Barcodes


Download Standard Time and start scanning today!

Track MFG with Barcodes



Things manufacturing metrics you can collect with barcodes:

  1. Employee shift attendance
  2. Work order manufacturing time
  3. Process steps within each work order
  4. Inventory
  5. Client hours for invoicing
  6. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
    1. Machine speed
    2. Yield
    3. Operating time


Track Employee Time and Work Orders


  1. Yell across the shop floor when your job is done
  4. Nothing beats a good guess


Barcode Scanners for Manufacturing






Cavemen don’t use barcode time tracking software



“I picked 238 lice today”

“Ha! 372 lice, here!”




MFG productivity experts, shop floor software



Scroll below the video for a few.


  1. Username (the employee doing the work)
  5. QtyPassed (the items that passed QA)


Custom Fields In Reports

Manufacturing reports include everything from employee activity to detailed KPI’s. How do you customize these reports in Standard Time® for your purposes? With custom fields. These fields may contain the results of barcode scans, automated input, or manual entry. However the data arrives, they are included on reports using this method.

Watch the video and try it yourself!

Track Shop Floor Work Orders With Tablets

Most small to medium-sized shops do not have a simple tablet-based system to check work order status. Status is often communicated verbally, electronically by text and email, and in staff meetings. But rarely is it communicated the way Standard Time® does it. So how does ST do it?

(scroll down below the video)

Standard Time presents work order status like they do at the airport. All your flights at the airport are displayed on a big-screen. Each flight has its own line, and those lines are sorted alphabetically so you can quickly scan the list and find your flight.

What if there was such a system for your work orders?

Scan the list… find the work order you’re interested in… and instantly see its status. That’s exactly what Standard Time does for you.


Manufacturing Productivity

Scoutwest has manufacturing productivity experts on  staff. We’re the folks that run @barcodetime on twitter, ScoutwestInc, and Mfg Projects on YouTube. Have you seen us? Seen the videos? Clicked the link? Then you’ve seen and Standard Time®.

What exactly do we do, you ask? (scroll down below the video for the answer)

What do we do at Scoutwest?

We develop manufacturing project management apps. That’s all! Just that!

There are a bunch of dashboards and apps surrounding Standard Time®. This is a grass-roots tool for collecting time on the shop floor and managing work orders and manufacturing projects. Grab a barcode scanner and give it a try. You will be surprised that nobody thought of this sooner.

What? Track time with a barcode scanner?

Sure, why not? It’s actually the easiest way to capture time on the shop floor without tethering users to a terminal, or to a paper timesheet. Once those scans start rolling in you will be amazed. Everything will change. You will instantly become inspired to change things and improve manufacturing efficiency.