Customer Testimonial

The implementation of an engineered labour standard program requires extensive sampling by the engineer on the warehouse floor in the middle of the action. The ability to quickly record and analyze data and adapt to an ever-changing environment are two of the challenges faced by industrial engineers. In order to predict additional delays within a warehouse setting an engineer will have to complete a work sampling study. The results of such a study will increase the standard time by the observed percentage to allow for things such as aisle and dock congestion. Prior to using UMT, we would have to manually record each task an employee was performing on a grid outlined on a piece of paper, attached to the ever-present clipboard. Whereas the credibility of the study relies upon many samples, a stack of paper soon begins to accumulate, as each department within the warehouse would require its own study. Once the study was completed each sheet had to be tallied and processed by a spreadsheet to ensure the accuracy of the study had been met. This whole process used much of the engineer's valuable time simply entering data and counting tick marks on sheets.