Introducing Time Studies: A New Standard in Measuring Efficiency
Today, we’re excited to introduce a new feature to the Squint platform: Time Studies––a familiar concept to any manufacturing facility committed to reducing inefficiencies and cutting downtime, but today, we’re bringing it to the 21st century.
In manufacturing, every wasted step drains the bottom line. Non-value added (NVA) work doesn’t just waste labor — it slows throughput and creates inefficiencies. Time studies expose those hidden costs so leaders can act before they hit the bottom line.
The problem? Traditional time studies using stopwatches, clipboards, Excel are cumbersome and slow. Evaluations that should take a few hours at most end up taking days, weeks, even months to complete. By the time results arrive, inefficiencies have already spread into daily practice.
To solve the problem, we partnered with one of the world’s largest heavy equipment manufacturers and reimagined how time studies should work in practice: a tool that helps engineers and leaders capture waste at its source, eliminate it quickly, and build better standards in its place.
Squint Time Studies: Purpose-built for industrial use
With this new set of tools, teams can quickly capture inefficiencies directly on the floor, remove them with data-backed decisions, and lock in the best process as the standard—whether they’re creating new SOPs or refining old ones.
Building a Faster, Smarter Modern Manufacturing Facility Starts with Squint
Manufacturing leaders face an urgent challenge: inefficiencies on the shop floor are draining the bottom line. Critical processes are performed inconsistently across lines and shifts, while outdated SOPs and tribal knowledge make it nearly impossible to scale best practices. The result is costly variation between your best operators and your newest hires—one reason manufacturers lose an estimated 20–30% of productivity to inefficiencies caused by inconsistent processes and poor knowledge transfer.
Squint exists to fix that. Leading manufacturing companies around the world use Squint to make frontline expertise instantly visible, interactive, and actionable for every operator on the line at any time of day.
Today, Time Studies joins a suite of powerful AI and AR-powered features within the Squint platform.
The Bigger Picture
On the shop floor, wasted minutes show up as real dollars lost. Squint Time Studies helps leaders protect the bottom line by making inefficiencies visible before they scale.
At the same time, it equips teams to capture the most effective version of a process and lock it in as the standard. That way, continuous improvement isn’t just about cutting losses — it’s about scaling the best version of work across every line and site.
Combined with Procedure Generation, an AI-powered Copilot, AI Step Verification and powerful Analytics, Time Studies closes the loop: from observing work, to eliminating waste, to building SOPs teams can trust.
Time Studies are live today for all Squint customers. We can’t wait to hear what you think!