Project costing

We have a lot of prototypes running at the same time, i.e.:- jumping
from one project file to another project file, during the day.

As this is a lot of R&D, we can claim tax back, BUT they want to have
a record of how much time we actually spend on each project.

Working on one project at a time, this would be quite simple, but we
don't.

Does anyone know of any software that say, can "dig" into the document
opened in Solidworks or even better the documents stored in Pdmworks
and get the project name and time spent?

One of the current projects is very small, but still has 394
documents, in it.
Looking at each one in Pdmworks and then adding the information on a
calculator, seems a bit old hat, with today's technology.

Am I asking too much?

 

Well I dont know how you record time spent on a project, but I just
installed free time tracking software called ActiTime which you can
set up and then log in through your internet browser....it's not
automatic entry, but it would manage adding up all the hours and
creating a report - provind people fill it in of course.....

 

This might be what You're looking for ....unfortunately the website is
in Swedish but there seems to be an option to change language in the
program:

http://www.catico.se/wtm.html

Time account
File managment
Project managment

and support SolidWorks

Just found it as a sponored link to the right of this site....in
Sweden

// Krister

 

Many thanks, I am giving it a try.

 

ComputerVision used to allow such accounting as part of the
CGOS OS functions.
IIRC DEC's VAX VMS could do something similar too.

I might try looking for a little OS-level application.

Or you could just use timecards.

 

I use TimeBox to track my time. SW doesn't track time and it would be
hard to do so. From what I have seen with past employers is that they
just want some kind of rough estimate, not a cpu cycle by cpu cycle
breakdown. And since the time recorded by SWx may not include all that
you are doing on a project (for example doing a quick side sketch or a
calculation) one would think that the time recorded by SWx would be a
lower limit on the actual time spent.

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