Plain-English definitions of manufacturing, job costing, and shop floor time-tracking terms — and where to see each one in action in Standard Time®.
No terms matched your search. Ask us directly.
Barcode Scanning
A barcode rule is the configuration that tells Standard Time® what to do when a specific barcode pattern is scanned — start or stop a timer, log an inventory transaction, run a script, or trigger a custom action. Rules match on character-type filters and conditions (starts with, ends with, contains) so a single scan station can handle employees, work orders, tasks, and inventory without separate hardware.
Read More → Related FAQProject Management
A baseline is a snapshot of a project's planned schedule — start dates, finish dates, and durations — captured at a point in time, typically when the project is approved and ready to start. Once set, Standard Time® renders a thin ghost bar beneath each task's current bar on the Gantt chart so you can see at a glance whether the job is ahead of, behind, or on schedule.
Read More → Related FAQInventory
A Bill of Materials (BOM) is the list of components, quantities, and sub-assemblies required to build a finished item. In Standard Time®, scanning the INV-BUILD barcode reads the BOM attached to a finished assembly, deducts each component's required quantity from stock, and adds one completed assembly — cascading through multiple levels for sub-assemblies that have their own BOM.
Job Costing
Billable hours are the portion of logged time that gets charged to a client or job, as opposed to internal, administrative, or non-reimbursable time. Standard Time® flags time logs as billable or non-billable per project or task, then exports billable hours to QuickBooks Online as TimeActivity records or attaches them directly to an invoice.
Read More → Related FAQProject Management
The critical path is the longest chain of dependent tasks from project start to project finish. Any delay to a task on the critical path delays the entire project's completion date, since there's no schedule slack to absorb it. Standard Time® uses the Critical Path Method (CPM) to calculate and highlight the critical path in red directly on the Gantt chart.
Read More → Related FAQProject Management
A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that visualizes a project schedule — each bar represents a task's start date, duration, and finish date, with link lines connecting dependent tasks. Standard Time®'s Gantt chart also shows summary bars, milestones, float, critical path highlighting, and baseline comparison bars, and lets you drag a bar directly to reschedule a task.
Read More → Related FAQJob Costing
Job costing is the practice of tracking all labor and material costs against a specific job or project so you can compare actual cost to estimate and calculate true profitability. Standard Time® combines time log labor costs with Expense records from inventory scans into a single Full Job Cost view — no spreadsheet reconciliation required.
Read More → Related FAQIntegrations
OData (Open Data Protocol) is a standardized web protocol for querying and reading data over HTTP, using a URL-based syntax for filtering, sorting, and selecting fields — no custom API client required. Standard Time® exposes 11 entities (TimeLogs, Projects, ProjectTasks, Inventory, and more) as an OData feed, so tools like Power BI, Excel, or Tableau can connect directly and refresh live shop floor data on demand.
Read More → Related FAQShop Floor
OEE is a manufacturing metric that scores how effectively equipment or a work cell is used, combining three factors — availability, performance, and quality — into a single percentage. Accurate OEE depends on knowing exactly when a machine or job was actually running, which is what shop floor barcode scans and timers in Standard Time® capture automatically.
Read More → Related FAQShop Floor
A time log is a single recorded entry of time worked — who worked, on which project and task, and for how long. In Standard Time®, a time log is created automatically every time an employee starts and stops a timer, whether from a barcode scan station, the desktop app, or the web client.
Read More → Related FAQIntegrations
Webhooks are an outbound, event-driven way for one system to notify another the instant something happens — instead of the receiving system having to poll for changes. Standard Time®'s native webhooks POST a signed JSON payload to your own HTTPS endpoint the moment a project, task, time log, or any of 11 record types is created, updated, or deleted, with an HMAC-SHA256 signature so your endpoint can verify the request is authentic.
Read More → Related FAQShop Floor
Work in Process (WIP) refers to jobs or units that have started production but aren't yet complete. Tracking WIP in real time lets a shop see exactly what's on the floor right now and where it's stuck. Standard Time®'s WIP dashboard can be filtered by folder and shown on a large screen so operators see only the work in progress for their area.
Read More → Related FAQIntegrations
Zapier is a no-code automation platform that connects thousands of apps through triggers (an event in one app) and actions (a resulting step in another). Standard Time®'s Zapier integration lets a new project, time log, or expense trigger a Zap that updates Slack, Google Sheets, a CRM, or any of 7,000+ connected apps — and lets those apps create or update Standard Time® records in return, unlike the one-way native webhooks feed.
Read More → Related FAQStart a free 30-day trial and see how Standard Time® handles job costing, scheduling, and shop floor tracking.
View Pricing Contact Us