For Engineers on the Project Team

Your Slice of the Plan
Without a Spreadsheet of Your Own

As a design engineer, you're usually working across several projects at once – with your own tasks, your own deadlines, and a department whose capacity depends on your availability. Linetrack shows your part of the plan right on the desktop: what's due, what's shifted, and how your updates keep the project status current for everyone else.

Linetrack project planning on the desktop, with tasks, deadlines and capacity by department

In short

Linetrack is the shared planning system your tasks and deadlines as a design engineer live in – not a time-tracking tool that logs your hours, and not a replacement for CAD or PLM. You see your own tasks with due dates, report progress directly on them, and your availability automatically feeds your department's capacity view. Planning and reporting both happen on the desktop, in the same data your project lead and department head see.

Day to day

What Actually Changes for You

Four concrete things change for you as a design engineer once tasks, deadlines and capacity live in one system.

Your own tasks, with deadlines, in one place

Your tasks sit with their deadline and planned effort in one place – not split between a private list and the project lead's separate schedule.

Background pattern behind the feature cards.

Progress reported on the task, not in a status meeting

You report status directly on your own task, at the desktop, with no detour through email or a status round. The project status is built from that update.

Your department's workload, visible before it gets tight

Your availability feeds directly into your department's capacity view. Overload becomes visible before a deadline slips – not only after.

Changes elsewhere reach you automatically

If a deadline shifts on another project drawing on the same department, it shows up against your own tasks automatically – visible in the plan, not as a surprise in the next meeting.

Honestly scoped

Where Linetrack Stops, For You

These limits aren't a compromise, they're the shape of the product. Three things Linetrack deliberately does not do for you as a design engineer:

No time tracking. Linetrack doesn't book hours against tasks. Actual times still come from your time-tracking system or ERP and flow into capacity planning through an interface, not from a logged hour in task tracking.
No replacement for CAD or PLM. Design data, drawings and bills of material stay in the systems built for them. Linetrack plans the task and its deadline, not the design work itself.
No automatic resource levelling. Linetrack calculates task relationships, computes the critical path and marks it in the Gantt chart. It does not clear an overload by itself – if your department is overbooked the capacity histogram shows it, and your department head decides how to replan.

What Linetrack does for you instead – deadlines and capacity in one shared data set – is described on the scheduling and capacity planning page.

Behind the scenes

How Your Availability Becomes Department Capacity

Department capacity is built from individual employee availability, minus holidays, sick leave and current project work. What is a cross-project workload view for your department head is, for you as a design engineer, simply the slice made up of your own tasks and deadlines: what's assigned to you counts toward your department's capacity.

This view isn't a monitoring tool, it's what your department uses to decide whether a new deadline is realistic in the first place – you see your own workload in it, not a judgement on your working hours. How schedules and capacity come together in one data set, and which role sees which view, is described on the scheduling and capacity planning page.

Due-task overview in Linetrack: own tasks by overdue, current and upcoming, with task tracking on desktop

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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Does Linetrack track my working time?

No. Linetrack isn't a time-tracking system and doesn't book hours against tasks. What you report in task tracking is a task's progress, not the time it took. Actual times still come from your time-tracking system or ERP and flow into capacity planning through an interface.

Does Linetrack replace our CAD or PLM system?

No. Linetrack plans the deadline and progress of a design task, not the design work itself. CAD, PLM and technical documentation stay in the systems built for them; Linetrack shows when a task is due and who's working on it.

How do I report progress on my tasks?

Directly on the task, at the desktop. You set the status right where your task already sits in the plan, with no detour through email, chat or a separate status check-in. The project status is built from that update, visible to your project lead and department. Which reporting options exist for this is shown on the Task Management module page.

Can I see other departments' workload too?

Not by default. Your own tasks and deadlines feed into your own department's capacity view, which your department head manages. A view across several departments belongs to the project lead and management roles, who work from the same underlying data.

Do I use Linetrack on desktop or on mobile?

On the desktop. Design engineers work with the full planning and reporting functions there. The mobile app is built for service, installation and commissioning staff, for the times a laptop isn't at hand.

Do I have to maintain my own capacity myself?

No, not as a separate step. Your availability is derived from the tasks assigned to you, minus absences, which are imported automatically from time tracking or HR wherever an interface is connected. What you do maintain yourself is progress on your own tasks. How department capacity is built from that is described on the scheduling and capacity planning page.

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