Time Studies.Reimagined.
Calculate lead times for complex assemblies — fully integrated into your SAP landscape.
Manufacturing planning has never been this efficient. SynCore combines industrial expertise with cutting-edge software technology, giving your production planners the tool they truly need.
Why Time Studies Are the Key
Time studies are the foundation for every change on the shopfloor. A good decision requires a correct time study as its basis.
The SynCore Effect
Analysis effort is reduced by ~90%
- Bootstrapping: processes are measured and structured once.
- Recurring work steps are then timed automatically.
- Shared logic, transparent parameters and ERP integration create a reliable baseline.
The real cost block sits below the surface
Not only time determination is costly, but also every downstream decision based on uncertain time data.
Hidden
Costing uncertainty
Quotations, margins and contribution levels are often based on experience instead of robust standard times.
Capacity distortion
If assembly times are not modeled realistically, utilization, intralogistics and delivery dates are planned incorrectly.
Site intransparency
Different plants often rate similar tasks differently. Comparable baselines for make-or-buy, ramp-ups, relocations and site strategy are missing.
Knowledge loss
Critical process and expert knowledge often remains with a few key individuals. If they leave, core decision input for costing, planning and optimization is lost.
Business Impact
Quotes and margins become unreliable
Capacity and delivery planning becomes error-prone
Site decisions lose a comparable baseline
Know-how risk rises with personnel changes
Reduce hidden costs
Global standards
SynCore creates a uniform methodological time baseline for assemblies, components and recurring operations. This enables comparable evaluations across products, plants and sites.
Local parameters
Site, plant and workstation factors remain flexible. Different local conditions such as layout, qualification, automation level or workstation organization can be considered transparently.
AI integration
When SynCore is in use, customers can connect AI solutions directly. The structured and consistent time logic automatically provides reliable data for analytics, forecasting and assistant workflows.
ERP integration
Existing ERP systems such as SAP, abas, Infor and others remain the leading systems. SynCore complements them with robust time logic for costing, planning and operational decisions.
Reduction Matrix
Which SynCore levers reduce which hidden cost factors.
| Cost Factor | Global standards | Local parameters | AI integration | ERP integration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costing uncertainty | High | Low | Low | Low |
| Capacity distortion | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
| Site intransparency | High | Medium | Low | Low |
| Knowledge loss | Medium | High | Low | High |
Comparability of Standard Times
Compare assemblies and workstations locally and globally — across multiple plants.
- Benchmarking analyses are extremely costly due to high manual effort
- Each analysis must be performed individually — a degree of inaccuracy is inevitable
- Different analytical methods make cross-plant comparisons difficult
- Large variance in actual vs. planned standard times from plant to plant
- On-demand analyses — available at any time, with no lead time
- No inaccuracy: a uniform methodology across all plants
- Compare assemblies, workstations and plants at the click of a button
- No additional headcount required for benchmarking analyses
The Sources of Your Standard Times
SynCore combines industry-proven methods with intelligent data normalisation.
MTM — Manufacturing Time Measurement Methodology
The constructive portion of standard times is built on the internationally recognised MTM Methodology standard. This gives your time values a methodologically sound, reproducible and auditable foundation.
REFA Analyses
REFA analyses provide the empirical basis for workstation optimisation. SynCore maps REFA time categories digitally, making evaluations available directly within the system.
Data Normalisation & Dynamic Calculation
SynCore normalises your raw data and dynamically calculates the constructive portion of standard times from it. The result: more data means no extra cost — accuracy grows with your data.
100% AI-Compatible
Normalised, consistent standard times are the fuel that powers AI models. Because SynCore stores your time data in a structured, cleansed form, Large Language Models, predictive analytics engines and optimisation algorithms can immediately operate on a pristine data foundation — no tedious data-cleaning pipelines, no hidden inconsistencies holding your AI initiatives back.
- < 1s
- Calculation per assembly tree
- ∞
- Workstations & components
- Native
- SAP OData integration
- Real-time
- Sankey & bar-chart views
Why SynCore?
SynCore adapts to your manufacturing reality — not the other way around.
Seconds instead of hours
What your planners used to calculate manually in Excel over hours, SynCore handles in fractions of a second. Assembly trees are traversed automatically, time values accumulated, and results visualised immediately.
REFA-compliant & validated
SynCore digitally maps the REFA time categories established in German manufacturing. Every process step is classified and marked with a "Verified" status — for maximum planning reliability.
SAP-native. No detours.
Import production orders directly from SAP, time-study the operations, and write the calculated times back into SAP routing with a single click. Fully bidirectional via the SAP OData standard.
Make time flows visible
Sankey diagrams show at a glance how total lead time is distributed across assemblies, components, and workstations. Identify bottlenecks. Spot opportunities. Make decisions.
Who is SynCore built for?
SynCore was created around the daily challenges of German manufacturing industry.
Benedikt M.
Production Planner
"Three hours of Excel per order used to be my life. With SynCore: SAP import, validate operations, export Sankey — done in 20 minutes."
Sabrina K.
Industrial Engineer
"REFA time categories natively in the system, surcharges configurable per workstation — it's the digital extension of our IE methodology."
Tobias R.
SAP Administrator
"Configured in 10 minutes, native OData integration, OpenTelemetry out of the box. SynCore is genuinely enterprise-ready."