Shop-Floor WIP
Setup vs Run Time Tracking and Why the Split Matters
Why setup and run time must be tracked separately — the split is what tells you whether small batches are worth quoting at all.
Rovaryn Digital7 min read
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Traveler, routing, and job-costing guides for job shops
Written for 5–50 employee shops running quote-based work — practical, numbers-first, no ERP sales pitch.
Shop-Floor WIPDowntime Reason Codes in Manufacturing: A Simple, Usable Set
A deliberately small reason-code set — setup, run, waiting, rework — that operators tag honestly, so downtime data is worth analyzing.
Rovaryn Digital8 min read
Shop-Floor WIPIdentifying Bottlenecks in a Job Shop From Queue Data
Reading WIP and queue data to identify the real bottleneck in a job shop — and to tell a true constraint from a bad day.
Rovaryn Digital7 min read
Shop-Floor WIPWork Center Queue Tracking: Seeing What's Waiting Where
Tracking queue depth per work center — waiting versus in-progress — is how bottlenecks show up before they blow a due date.
Rovaryn Digital7 min read
Shop-Floor WIP'Where Is My Job?' — Answering Customers Without Walking the Floor
The 'where is job X' problem is a data problem, not a floor problem. How a lookup by job, part, or customer solves it instantly.
Rovaryn Digital7 min read
Shop-Floor WIPA Work-In-Progress Dashboard for Manufacturing That Supervisors Use
What a WIP dashboard needs to earn a supervisor's attention — a work-center queue view, aging, and no clutter.
Rovaryn Digital8 min read
Shop-Floor WIPWIP Tracking on the Shop Floor: Seeing Every Open Job
Live WIP tracking turns 'go walk the floor' into a work-center queue view — the mechanism and what it takes to keep it accurate.
Rovaryn Digital8 min read