Time Clock console automates time sheet recording on a factory floor
The Accentis time clock console is a networked time-in-attendance recording system that enables staff to record when they arrive and leave the workplace and when they start or stop any given task.
Integrated into the Manufacturing, Job costing and Payroll modules, the Accentis Time Clock can be interfaced to barcode readers, touchscreens, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and biometric peripherals to produce a dead simple method for recording time-in-attendance.
The console can be just barcode-driven in combination with a standard LCD monitor or combined with an optional touch screen clock-in/clock-out console that takes the place of the traditional manually entered time-clock. This facility is fully integrated into timesheets, jobs and work orders so that employees can rapidly clock on and off jobs, work orders, job cost centres and work order routes.
Designed for shop floor situations the major strength of the time sheet console is the ability to collect and allocate time spent on every manufacturing routes. This means there is unparalleled reporting on not just employee times but also machine usage, idle times and efficiency levels.
You can set reports to auto refresh so live data from the time clock console gives production managers a real time view of what stages work orders and jobs are at.
Using the timesheet console the labour savings alone are quite significant. This example was taken from an Accentis shop fitting client:
This company has 41 staff of which 30 manually write up daily timesheets. On the timesheet employees noted the hours worked for each job along with the start and finish times.
On a daily basis these time sheets were collated and checked by the admin assistant, Michelle. Michelle took 25 minutes to enter timesheet data into the payroll system. Each Wednesday the payroll officer, Jenny checked the overall times and confirmed pay rates for each employee. Jenny spent 2.5 hours on this task.
Michelle’s hourly cost is $23/hr and Jenny’s hourly cost is $28.50. Let’s expand this out:
$23/hr x 25 minutes x 5 days = $47.91 per week for Michelle
$28.50/hr x 2.5 hours = $71.25 per week for Jenny
That’s a total cost of $119.16 per week x 52 weeks = $6,196.32 per year.
With the implementation of two time clock consoles Jenny ended up spending only 1 hr 15 minutes each week on a pay run, so the true saving worked out to be $4,344. When the time savings were then collated for shop floor employees, the estimated overall annual cost reduction was close to $15,400.
Automating every day tasks can save a substantial amount over a period of time. On a typical installation, a time sheet console including hardware would pay for itself in under a year.
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