Job Location Tracking

Job location tracking helps improve productivity with real-time visibility of jobs on the shop floor.

Shoestring’s job location tracking starter solution package** is designed to give companies an easy way to get started, see how digitalisation benefits their business, building in-house digital skills along the way. The starter solution is designed to provide a practical learning experience. Each starter solution package:

Can be built and deployed by non-technical staff
Is supported with a technical training and support programme, instructions, an online forum for problem solving
Facilitates peer-to-peer support as well as access to experts
Provides a detailed shopping list of the low-cost electronic components (all available online from major resellers)
Includes the software required to connect the components and deliver easy-to-understand dashboards.

** We are currently offering a special early adopter offer on a first come first served basis – £400 for a starter solution package (saving £400 on full price).

How the solution works

Using barcode scanners your operations team can help capture data about the real-time location of jobs in production, which will then be presented on a dashboard, so that all jobs in the production line can be found instantly. This starter solution sets up 2 checkpoints on your shop floor to help your business trial job tracking.

Solves questions such as:

Where is a particular job right now?
How many jobs are waiting at a location or are in production, how long they been there?
Has a job been delayed or forgotten at a location?

Potential benefits:

Quickly identify and address misplaced or delayed jobs
Spend less time finding jobs
Provide customers with instant updates on job progress

Is simple to setup and use:

Set up two scanners located in two different locations.
Data from each scanner transmits to an easy-to-read live dashboard.
The dashboard shows where each job was last seen and how long it has been in this location.

Job tracking industry case studies

“Saves time and improves customer relations” Read Buchanan Orthotics’ case study >
“Changes the way our employees work and think” Read David Smith’s case study >

Starter solution package

Special early adopter* rate of £400 (reduced from full cost of £800).

As an Early Adopter* you will get the starter solution package including:

Bill of Materials – shopping list of all the low-cost components you need to buy (costing you under £200).
The starter solution’s software download.
Full instructions on how to build and deploy the starter solution.
Access to the online forum for support with problem solving.
Places on the technical support programme led by the Shoestring engineer, with a cohort of 3-5 businesses, which includes:

- Specification and planning workshop (run online, c. 1.5 hours).
- Access to a series of online check-in sessions (each usually lasts 10-30mins).
- The Impact and review workshop (run online, c. 1.5 hours).

*Shoestring early adopters work in collaboration with Shoestring. They are among the first to trial the Shoestring starter solution package, receive direct support from the Shoestring technical team, and help Shoestring improve and develop the starter solution offering.

Tried and tested

Shoestring solutions have been deployed in over 70 companies, helping them to improve productivity, reduce waste and energy usage, and also to give their staff the digital skills and confidence they need to introduce more digitalisation throughout the business. Read or watch some of the industry case studies >

“Time has been saved in the packing area. Manual checklists have been cut down, which has saved hours of work every week.”

Job tracking solution | David Smith Ltd

“Feedback from staff is positive. The dashboard is now the first point of call for employees looking to check on the [wax] production status.”

Temperature monitoring | Kemdent Dental Products Ltd

Try another solution

Our range of Shoestring starter solutions is growing, currently you can also deploy:

Power monitoring (up to 50A): ideal for equipment monitoring as well as reducing energy waste.
Scrap monitoring: to help you reduce waste, produce more good parts, identify and address problems and improve stock planning accuracy.
Downtime monitoring: to highlight machinery utilisation, which machines or operations have the most downtime, and the frequent reasons for downtime across production.

Or you can take out annual membership and access instructions and guides to all the solutions as well as join up to 3 training programmes.

Get started today

Buy your starter solution package now via our ecommerce site, and if you are a manufacturing company, take advantage of our half-price early adopter offer .

If you would like to talk to us, email contact@digitalshoestring.net or fill out our contact form.

Coming soon

Drawing on the range of tried and tested solutions built and deployed in over 50 companies, Shoestring will release more starter solutions over the coming months, including scrap monitoring, machine downtime monitoring and temperature monitoring. Register your interest to be one of the first to know.