CAMPBELL, CALIF. - Sept.
1, 2005 - Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand's (IR)
Security Technologies, announced today that retail solutions manufacturer Dresser
Wayne is using its biometric HandReaders to track the time and attendance for
400 hourly employees at its facility in Austin, Texas, resulting in annual payroll
savings of $20,000.
HandReaders automatically take a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape
of a hand and verify the user's identity in less than one second. Biometric
readers eliminate the need for an employee to carry a badge, thus eliminating
the problem of lost or forgotten badges. Biometric time clocks also eliminate
"buddy punching," the practice of employees clocking in and out for
each other. They also provide more accurate information about who is working
and when and help a company eliminate intentional or unintentional mistakes.
Plus, not having hourly employees fill in their time each pay period results
in visible cost savings.
"It is a very secure system that provides accurate information about who
has worked, and for how long," said Chris Walter, manufacturing systems
engineer. "It doesn't sound like much when you look at it from one person's
time savings. But give back 10-15 minutes per employee to the manufacturing
process every two-week period-and reduce the time the team captains have to
review the numbers from an hour to 30 minutes-and we achieve an annual savings
of a little more than $20,000."
Manufacturing costs are directly affected by the productivity of employees.
With its 400 workers spread across four buildings at the Austin facility, Walter
needed a more efficient method of collecting time and attendance records and
readying the information for payroll.
Before installing the biometric solution, hourly employees completed paper timesheets,
signing in and out each day. At the end of the pay period, employees had to
complete paperwork and give it to their team leaders for verification prior
to entering it into the payroll system. This process took about 15 minutes per
worker-time that could be better spent on the manufacturing process.
In early 2000, Dresser Wayne started searching for a solution to eliminate the
manual process. Legiant, a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, that
specializes in the development of web-based time and attendance tracking solutions,
introduced Wayne to its biometric solution.
"Biometric time clocks are very accurate," said Walter. "We tried
to spoof the system with someone else's hand similar in size to mine but the
system would not accept it. It is a very secure system that provides accurate
information about who has worked and for how long."
The Legiant Timecard system offers all the features Dresser Wayne needed for
its manufacturing facility. It easily implements the rules for labor collection
and supports rules that allows the company to allocate time for 15 minutes in
the morning and afternoon for breaks that could be charged directly to overhead,
not a product. This enables Dresser Wayne to track its labor efficiencies accurately
and develop efficiency reports for accounting.
Plus, the system can compare the amount of labor used to manufacture a product
against the forecasted costs to make certain the numbers balance. This information
helps the company plan its hiring, track overtime usage, and determine the output
per person in each area.
Another of the benefits of the Legiant biometric-based timecard system at Dresser
Wayne is that the HandReader biometric clocks work over the company's Ethernet
network, which eliminated the expense of having to install new wire.
Wayne's relationship with Legiant is another benefit of the solution.
"They provided training for our team leaders and supervisors responsible
for reviewing and approving the electronic timecards. Now they are working with
us to ensure our Legiant solution works with our new Oracle payroll system."
With over 100,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading millions
of hands each day, Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is the pioneer and
only manufacturer of the leading two biometric technologies, hand geometry and
finger scan. HandReaders handle any population volume with ease while providing
impeccable reliability. With dramatically lower false reject and failure to
enroll rates than other biometric technologies, the value of HandReaders grows
as the number of users and/or transactions increases. They are recommended for
outdoor applications.
About Dresser Wayne
Dresser Wayne, a business unit of Dresser, Inc., is a technology leader in the
manufacture and supply of retail petroleum fuel dispensers, dispenser control
systems, credit/debit card processing terminals, and point-of-sale systems.
Dresser Wayne's innovative products are used in over 75 countries. The business
unit's website can be found at www.wayne.com.
About Legiant
Legiant is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas that leads development
in the web-based time and attendance tracking industry. The Legiant product
suite is comprised of Legiant Touch Data, Legiant Timecard, and Legiant Web
Timecard. Legiant offers professional services and application hosting. Legiant
can be reached at 1.877.760.8463 or via their web site at www.legiant.com.
