Manufacturing operations
Custom manufacturing time tracking software for Quebec shops
Track shop-floor labor by employee, project, and activity before it becomes a spreadsheet cleanup problem.
DEVTom builds custom internal applications for manufacturers that need practical time capture, production visibility, and project labor reporting without forcing the shop into a generic SaaS workflow.
- •NFC badge and barcode scanner workflows
- •Productive vs support time reporting
- •Project and activity-level labor visibility
If this sounds familiar, your time data is arriving too late
- •Time is entered after the work is already done
- •Excel is used to reconcile hours, projects, and activities
- •You cannot separate productive time from support work
- •Project labor overruns appear too late
- •Workers need a scanner-friendly flow, not office forms
- •Breaks, shifts, overtime, and exceptions require manual correction
What a custom shop-floor system can capture
Capture time at the source
Use a kiosk-style flow with NFC badges and barcode scanners so employees can record work without typing on the shop floor.
Track project and activity labor
Record who worked on what, when, and for how long. Time can be grouped by employee, project, activity, and period.
Measure productive vs support time
Classify activities so managers can compare direct production time against support work such as handling, maintenance, meetings, or cleanup.
From time tracking to production visibility
A Quebec manufacturing client needed more than a digital timesheet. The real need was visibility into where shop labor was going across employees, projects, and activities.
That kind of system has to fit the physical workflow: tablets, scanners, badges, gloves, scheduled breaks, shift-end rules, and occasional exceptions.
Once the data is captured reliably, the business can report on useful KPIs such as total hours, hours by project, productive time, support time, and an example target such as 85% productive / 15% support work.
A practical phased approach
- 1.Map employees, projects, activities, and shop-floor rules
- 2.Launch a first kiosk workflow for reliable time capture
- 3.Add reports by employee, project, activity, and period
- 4.Expand into budget burn, dashboards, and alerts once the data is trustworthy
Built around real shop-floor rules
The hard part is rarely the screen. It is encoding the real rules: one active activity per employee, automatic closure of previous work, scheduled break deductions, overtime exceptions, support activities, and reports that managers can trust.
Frequently asked questions
Want to know where your shop-floor labor really goes?
DEVTom can help you design the capture, reporting, and KPI layer your operation needs, starting with a scoped first version.