Time studies from video
Cameras record every second of every shift. Cobalt turns the video into time per unit, units finished and where the time goes, for every workstation. No stopwatch, and no one watching on the floor.
“Getting this data ourselves would have taken us months, maybe a year or more.”
“It's accurate. It's dead on accurate.”
“A lot of this we'd never have known unless someone sat out there and watched it.”
“We don't need to hire anybody else. Now we know that for sure.”
Compared with a stopwatch study
How much is recorded
Stopwatch study: A few hundred notes over a few days.
Cobalt: Every second of every shift.
Units finished
Stopwatch study: Counted by hand, if at all.
Cobalt: Counted for each workstation, every hour.
On the floor
Stopwatch study: An engineer with a stopwatch. People work differently when watched.
Cobalt: Cameras only. No one stands at the workstation.
Afterwards
Stopwatch study: The study ends.
Cobalt: Measuring continues, so you can see whether each change worked.
How it starts
Day 1
A call and a walk-through
You show us what you make and where you think time is lost.
Week 1
Setup
We use your cameras or install our own. Production does not stop.
Week 2
First results
Time per unit, units finished and where the time goes.
Get in touch
Tell us what you make and about how many people work on the floor. We reply within one business day.