Timer Pro Professional

Summary

Timer Pro supports KAIZEN teams in their daily work of improving production processes through various types of analysis: SMED, Pareto, line balancing statements, time norming, Yamazumi, etc.

Application

Timer Pro Professional is used by companies such as Boeing, DHL Aviation, United Airlines, Bombardier, Bridgestone, Catepillar UK, Cooper Standard, General Motors, Lear , Mitsubishi Electric, Nissan, Polycon Industries, Rieter Automotive, Toyota, TRW Steering System, Visteon Climate Control, Volvo, Volvo Motor, Yamaha Motor Company, and nearly 500 other companies in the aerospace, automotive, consumer products, logistics and distribution, electronics and energy, engineering products, food, pharmaceutical and medical, and service industries.

Specification

PROBLEMS/CHALLENGES

• Assessing jobs for value-added activities takes a lot of time and/or is not done systematically.
• The evaluation is not done on an ongoing basis and it is hard to compare jobs among themselves.
• Process engineers spend too much time updating documentation and analyzing work processes.
• Job instructions are not updated in a timely manner with frequent changes in the work process.
• Lack of a tool to clearly and quickly plan workstations for production lines. Spreadsheet solutions are inefficient and time-consuming.
• Lack of a defined appropriate method to evaluate workstations for ergonomics. 

SOLUTION

Timer Pro Professional Software

• Video analysis module
• Balancing module
• Ergonomics module
• Introductory training
• Video analysis training
• Training in balancing
• Ergonomics training 

FUNCTIONALITY

• Convenient and accurate measurement of employee activity times.
• Quickly build work standards and normative based on the practice of the best employees supported by normative.
• Multi-faceted analysis of the work area in terms of major losses, activity times, ergonomics, Lean, Kaizen SMED,
• Looking at the process from different angles- quickly grasping dependencies
• Process modeling and redesign on the computer screen.
• Immediate preparation of instructions, including video instructions and standardized work sheets (SOPs)

ADVANTAGES

• Video analysis of the workstation
• Video instructions
• Yamazumi charts
• Job and operator comparisons
• Balance support - benefit calculator
• Consideration of product types and uniqueness.
• Access to prepared instructions without additional software. 

PURPOSE

• Manufacturing companies
• Process engineers
• Production engineers
• Technologists