Hello everyone, I tried to look in the forum for similar info but I could not find anything so here I am asking..
We are a small CNC shop, we started less than a year ago and currently have two CNC machines (Mazak lathe from 2019 and Hurco mill from 2018) and 2 full time operators. We are busy 12-18 hours a day and do mostly small volume jobs.
I am looking to set up time tracking to better understand how much time we spend on jobs, not just on the CNCs but on programming, sawing, rumbling etc. We could print sheets for the operators to fill in for each activity, but I see it very bothersome to keep filling in logs, is anyone aware of a better way of achieving this? The ideal solution could be a smartphone app, but I was wondering how is everyone accomplishing this, or are you happy with just a rough idea of time spend on jobs?
Thanks for any advice,
Davide
We are a small CNC shop, we started less than a year ago and currently have two CNC machines (Mazak lathe from 2019 and Hurco mill from 2018) and 2 full time operators. We are busy 12-18 hours a day and do mostly small volume jobs.
I am looking to set up time tracking to better understand how much time we spend on jobs, not just on the CNCs but on programming, sawing, rumbling etc. We could print sheets for the operators to fill in for each activity, but I see it very bothersome to keep filling in logs, is anyone aware of a better way of achieving this? The ideal solution could be a smartphone app, but I was wondering how is everyone accomplishing this, or are you happy with just a rough idea of time spend on jobs?
Thanks for any advice,
Davide