Overview
To provide for efficiencies in workforce and time and labor management, Anyware designed, developed and implemented a time and attendance data collection tool for an international manufacturing company.

Business Issues
Before Anyware’s involvement, time and attendance and workforce production data was manually captured on paper, often providing inaccurate and delayed information to management. Time spent on work orders was misplaced or incorrectly assigned. “Built as designed” and actual labor hours were hard to compare because of inaccurate source data. Anyware first re-engineered current business processes and then proposed, designed, developed and implemented a system to automate time and attendance and labor reporting and to supply production data on a timelier and more accurate basis.

Anyware Solution
The Anyware solution accomplishes efficiencies in time capture by allowing for “Express Clock In” with ID badges. Using several workstations across the shop floor, employees can scan their employee id badges using attached bar-code readers, and be automatically “clocked in”.

Tightening security and enhancing quality control of time reporting data, the application determines which “role” an employee belongs to when his id badge has been scanned. Based on an employee assigned role, it can either allow or deny access to specific system functionality.

To improve and provide for more accurate work order information, barcodes identifying the operation sequence are printed on each work order. Shop floor workers scan the barcodes capturing the work order information, and then “job into” an activity of the work order. When an employee “jobs out” of the activity, actual labor hours are captured and can be subsequently compared to total budgeted hours for the work order.