The latest news from Tectime....

05/11/2020: The office has returned to minimum staffing levels during this second national lockdown period.

Staff are when ever possible remote working.

For this period we are closed to visitors to minimise risk to on site staff. 

Please continue to use the following for contact details which are monitored during office hours. 

01782 414849

[email protected]

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Stay safe, everyone.

18/08/2020: The office has now reopened (10/08/20) and is being staffed during our normal office hours.  Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00

Staff are balancing office hours with remote working.

We are open for limited visitors with social distancing and ppe in use. 

Please continue to use the following for contact details which are monitored

01782 414849

[email protected]

[email protected]

18/05/20 : Office is still closed, we are working on a re-organisation of workspace to comply with Covid-19 directives, with a view to a partial reopening of our facility during June.

Please continue to use the following for contact details which are monitored

01782 414849

[email protected]

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Stay Safe.........

Office is now closed until further notice, please use the following 

01782 414849

[email protected]

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ISOLATE TO SAVE LIVES

As of Monday 23rd March, the majority of staff will be working remotely, our phone lines can be managed externally so please continue to use our main line number. Emails will be handled in the normal way. Because of the nature of this developing crisis and our need to keep everyone as protected as possible this will continue for the foreseeable future. Stay safe everyone.

Remember ISOLATE TO SAVE LIVES.

As we move into the second phase nationally for the control of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Tectime will be limiting visits by clients to the office and on-site visits as much as possible to slow the spread of this contagion. Internally we plan to limit numbers of staff attending the office, with remote working. This may have an impact on physical servicing & repair of hardware time scales, but we will endeavour to minimise the effect of this to all our clients, however priority will be given to Warranty & Support contract clients.

Minor update to fix 2 issues and adding additional options

1. The database fails to upgrade if there are no studies, fixed.

Found on last update, update process failed to complete if there were no recorded studies on the device
 

2. Bug fixes & reliability enhancements.

Relating to the lastest Android OS, V9

3. Options to clear all app data.

4. Security enhancements added to sending of study data via email & cloud.

My first thought on this is, why!  That can be a little unfair as “quick” adhoc times can serve a purpose, but I have to say a very limiting purpose. A quick process time can be achieved, basically a time to do “X” units of production, so time per unit is………

Of course, complex studies can be taken with a stopwatch, manually writing down the information, element, time, rating (pace) and any notes. This is then transposed from the written study to summary, and if you have any experience of this process, you’ll understand that words like arduous don’t really do this mind-numbing process justice.  

And this is the problem, the more observations you take, the more studies you take, the longer it takes to get a result. Then there’s frequencies and statistics, quite often the latter task is not performed because it just takes too long!  Okay you can use a spread sheet, but you will need to put the studies in, usually manually.  But this is still time consuming and not free from errors.

Our system in simple terms take away all of this “pain”. Allowing immediate analysis of one or hundreds of studies, offering statistical support with the click of a button.  Its simple, its fast, its accurate and there’s so much more you can use the studies for.

Which brings me back to my first point – Still using a stopwatch?  Why?

Our products do one very simple thing, make you or your Industrial Engineers more productive. After installing our systems in many clients in the last 30 years it’s an unequivocal fact that we can achieve this. Even more so if you are using a Stopwatch.

Our experience :-

• Means that recording studies is a simple as possible.
• Means that the analysis software can produce a “value” in seconds
• Means that we understand your needs as an Industrial Engineer

You get :-

• A system that pays for itself in months.
• A system fully supported and updated.
• A system that just works! 

The latest release of the Android iePro Mobile app will be available from Monday 4th November 2019.

All the changes are listed below in detail...

1. The header fields are now imported from the joblet file, the user can choose for this to be shown at the start of study, end of study or not at all.  It can also be edited in manage recorded studies area.  This is in readiness for iePro Desktop V9.
2. You can now enter Marks separately on the notes page during study, this can be turned on/off in the settings and is only compatible with the up and coming iePro Desktop V9.
3. Options added to send the study to Microsoft OneDrive app if it is installed.
4. AS/MM; on study start the first area in the list is pre-selected.
5. Date and time added to the study list screen.
6. Finish time in the study is updated when the user physically turns off the device in study.
7. Altered positions of buttons on the Manage Studies screen in portrait mode.
8. AS; added an option in the settings so a volume down button press acts as a new round press.
9. Screen tips; setting added to allow you to turn off all the screen tips.
10. When a study is created the checking if the study table is full is moved so the warning is displayed before the user enters the study name and chooses a joblet file to use.  Also checking if the name already exists is moved so after the warning message has been cleared the user may altered the entered text without entering it all again.
11. An option added into the settings allowing the user to reset the settings to the default options.
12. Changes to accommodate GUI for Tab A (2019) 10" running Android 9 (Pie).
13. Licence screen; swapped round 'Current Licence Details' & 'What would you like to do?' sections on the GUI.
14. Study DataID; a unique number is generated and added to the study for use in iePro Desktop V9.
15. Minimum Android OS requirements increased from Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
16. Licence server; purchase date issues fixed.
17. Licence server; incorrect number of days left on the licence was returned by the device.
18. MM/AS; 'most frequently used' button was not remaining on between each operator in portrait mode.
19. DeviceID was still using the InstallID rather than the newly created DeviceID which is set by the user in the exported study file.
20. AS/MM; final BP not recorded in study when it contained no data.
21. AS/MM - when an already seen operator was accidentally pressed the seen area was lost.
22. AS; EC button was showing in landscape.
23. Rotation functions updated.
24. Adding new Study Definition; if details (long description) left blank it did not auto fill in therefore in study if you were displaying long description you would have blank lines.
25. History; due to the length of time to load if there are many observations it has been limited to the last 20.
26. AS countdown alert; when new round alert triggers the tip screen sometimes reappeared and alarm sounded even if set to off in the settings.
27. Study start; added a check to see if Wifi/Mobile Data/Bluetooth/GPS is turned on and inform the user if so as these are power hungry connections that will reduce run time as well as take up extra processing power.  N.B. Now need extra permission ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.