Engineering & Production Time Tracking for Prophet 21
Know where the hours go—and where work gets stuck.
When engineering time lives in spreadsheets or is reconstructed after a job, it’s difficult to see what the work actually required.
Which stage took longer than expected? What remains unfinished? Did the estimate account for all the engineering effort?
Missing time records and unclear progress can hide costs, complicate scheduling, and make the next job harder to quote accurately.
MindHARBOR builds custom time-tracking applications connected to Prophet 21, helping employees capture their work and giving managers useful information for reviewing it.
Record time against the work it belongs to
Custom applications can organize time around production orders, projects, tasks, and stages.
Depending on your requirements, the workflow can capture:
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The project or production order.
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The customer or operation involved.
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The employee performing the work.
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The task or stage being completed.
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Time spent and supporting notes.
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Status and progress updates.
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Information needed for review and reporting.
We design the entry process around the people using it, with clear fields and fewer unnecessary steps.
See progress and effort together
Give authorized users a summary of current work, with the ability to drill into individual projects and stages.
Custom views and reports can help your team review:
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Hours recorded by employee, task, or stage.
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Actual effort against agreed estimates.
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Work awaiting its next step.
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Projects requiring closer attention.
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Progress updates and remaining work.
Completion percentages and estimates are based on agreed definitions so users understand what the figures mean.
Use completed work to improve future decisions
Better time records can help reveal effort that was previously difficult to measure.
Your team can use that information to review estimating assumptions, investigate overruns, understand recurring bottlenecks, and assess where a process needs improvement.
The reporting is built around the questions your business needs to answer.
Connect the application with P21
We assess which information should come from P21 and what approved data needs to go back.
The approach depends on your environment, available interfaces, and the production or project workflow involved.
We define validation, permissions, review steps, and reconciliation as part of the integration.
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Extend into scheduling and coordination
Where useful, the application can also support task assignments, calendars, production scheduling, and internal or customer-facing reports.
You can begin with a focused time-entry tool and add functions as the requirements become clearer.
Custom tools for P21—and other business systems
This page illustrates work connected to Prophet 21, but the same approach can support other ERPs and custom applications.
MindHARBOR builds around your operation, drawing on existing development experience and reusable tools to give the project a head start.
Custom Solutions. Not Products. Built around your business.
Where are missing hours or unclear progress costing you?
Tell us how employees record work today, what managers need to see, and where the current process falls short.
We’d be happy to connect you with our development team for a free introductory discussion about improving time tracking and operational visibility.
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