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Truss Shop Labor Tracker
Software
Click
here to download the... Software Brochure
A
powerful
and
yet simple software package to track your truss
shop’s labor. Think
about the idea of knowing the
who,
what, when and where of every order being processed in your shop.
Every order’s
Actual versus
Estimated…
- Time Standards
or known as Houlihan Method
- Estimated Vs Actual (+/-) and % Efficiency
- This software
records the employee wages and burden rate % for your labor costing.**
- Estimated Vs Actual (+/-) and % Efficiency
Automated Incentive Calculations!
Every employee, who actually performs well, can be rewarded for his
efforts. Weed out the poor performers with precise recording
of the labor in every order. All you have to do is just click
a mouse button, to know who did well and how much to reward them.
40 Different Combination Options for Payouts!
Import Truss Information from ....
- MiTek
- Alpine
- More Engineering software by requests
®
MiTek, Robbins and Alpine are registered trade marks.
$2,900.00
/ Year*
Which is equal to only $241.67 per month
,
* Pricing is
for lease agreement per manufacturing location
* All funds are US currency
Testimonial
Fabco Building Components…

Our company has been profitable and always has been competitive in our
market. We are aware that markets change, for good or bad, and we
wanted to prepare ourselves for the future market changes. Knowing
this, we realized that our bidding and costing relied too much on
averages and end-of-month results. We wanted to know what each and
every order actually should and did cost to manufacture. To do this
right, we needed to track our true labor costs and labor efficiencies.
This has always been a daunting task for the truss industry.
Todd provided his time standards (truss labor estimations) with his
consulting services. He also provided his labor-tracking software. This
was the one–two punch we needed to tackle this daunting task. The
time standards gave us accurate benchmarks to estimate and judge our
productivity. The software tracked the results with very little effort.
We now have every order tracked in detail, down to each
employee’s contribution. Every order can be viewed for labor
efficiencies and actual labor costs. Now we know how much any type of
order should and did cost us for time and labor.
Dan and Terry Tontarski
Owners
Fabco - Tontarski Inc
Watertown, NY USA
Automated Incentive
Module!
This
tracking software also has an Automated
Incentive
module that you can use to increase the efficiencies within
your manufacturing facility. Customize
the incentive defaults to your company’s particular
requirements with ease. Base
their rewards on
actual versus expected efficiencies.
Incentive
options…
40 Different Combination Options for Payouts!
- Min/Max
Efficiencies (used to set the baseline and excludes
abnormal
ranges)
- Employee’s
Share as Percentage
- Yes/No
- Include Indirect Hours
- Yes/No
– Negative Orders Efficiencies
- Based On Efficiencies Options
- Man-Hrs or Labor Cost
- Combine
Group or Individual Efficiencies
- Payout
Options Such as Straight Hourly Rate/Employee Pay
Rate/Savings Sharing
- And
Much More…
Administration
Application
Simple,
Flexible
and Quick Order Processing
You
can easily
import an order’s truss information from your engineering
software. All the necessary
information about each
truss and the entire order can be imported using simple import features. (Information example: Truss labels,
quantity,
estimated labor cost, and man-hours extra…)
Workstation
Application
Simple,
Flexible
and Quick Order Processing
Shop
employees can use a touch screen or mouse with a
keyboard or even a barcode reader.
Processing
the orders is simply a matter of…
- Attendance - All Employees log into attendance
for start of shift
- Each Employee logs into cells - Easily change
location of any employee
- Log order into cell - Any order/truss/activity
is easily changed
Breaks
times are automatically log off/on employees from adding
man-minutes to work orders.
Any employee can shift to any location, during the shift, without
management’s inputting information. His location is always
monitored and recorded, but each employee logs himself into the area
which he is assigned.
Active
live windows show work orders being processed and any employees
not logged into cells
.
All
Labor of the Shop Employees are Included
From
the lumber picker to the
truss stacker, each and every employee’s labor is included
with the
orders being processed. The
labor
of the support personnel is split among the orders being processed by
the teams
of employees they are supporting.
Example…
Truss
stacker is stacking
trusses for tables 1,2
and 3 so his labor is divided
among the orders being processed on tables 1,2 and 3.
Truss
Tags for Every Truss
Printed using thermal printer
to durable vinyl material that stands up to the weather
User-defined
optional information…
- Company Name
- Company Logo
- Job Name
- Truss Label
- Customer Name
- Loading
- Text MSG
- Unique
Barcode for each truss
Loading
or Inventory Verification Module
Record
each truss tag with a
pocket PC using a barcode reader. No
more arguing with the customer about what was loaded and delivered.
- Each tag must be
swiped for recording (users cannot fool the unique barcode of each
truss)
- The program tells the user
which trusses are missing for the completed order
Many
Types of Reports...
- Individual Order and Date Range Totals for all
Reports
- Employee
Attendance
(See
below for details)
Actual
Labor Cost &
Man-Hrs per compared to common benchmarks...
Click
here to download Finished Order Report Example...
Finished Order Summary PDF
Click
here to download Multiple Order Comparison Report Example...
Multiple Orders Comparison
Order
Reporting Details and Summaries...
- WIP, Completed and Hold Status
- Dates
- Hours Work Preformed
-
Who Preformed Activities/Task
- Area/Group Activity Preformed
- Actual Activity/Task
- Trusses Worked On
- Man-Hours (Expected Vs Actual)
- Labor cost (Expected Vs Actual)
Employee’s Individual Day’s Activities
This application is also an
attendance application. That is why every employee’s
detailed information of worked preformed can be recorded.
- Start/End
Time
- Total
Hours Direct (associated with orders) and Indirect Hours
- Total
Hours and Overtime Hours
- Work
Areas
- Task/Activities
- Orders
& Trusses Worked On
- Breaks
Everything
broken down according to Day/Week/Month/Year
- This software records the employee
wage and a burden rate % for your labor costing for each order processed.**
** Burden rate as percentage (User
defined)
** Does not currently apply
overtime to order's labor costing.
** Overtime
cost would skew reliability of estimation numbers
Testimonial
Structural Truss Systems Ltd...
We looked at a number of software solutions before we chose
Todd’s Labor Tracker software. We needed something
that
would track employee time for payroll and record time on task for
costing and analysis. Todd’s software was the most
appropriate and cost effective solution available.
It not only captures all the data we need from the plant floor,
it’s highly visual interface makes it very easy for all staff
to
use. It interfaces well with the rest of our production
software
allowing for easy and accurate expected VS actual comparisons.
Lane McLaren
Controller
Structural Truss Systems Ltd.
Fort Macleod AB Canada
$2,900.00
/ Year*
Which is equal to only $241.67 per month
,
* Pricing is
for lease agreement per manufacturing location
* All funds are US currency
Software
and Hardware Requirements
- Existing
Desktop (Example - Laser / Saw) computers located
around manufacturing area
- Operating
System: Windows XP
Professional / Windows 2000 Professional/Server or above
- Database:
SQL Server 2005 or SQL Express 2005 (a free SQL Server by Microsoft)
must be installed on the file server
- Monitor
screens with 1024 * 768 pixels configured (Touch Screen is optional)
Todd Drummond Consulting, LLC.
Copyrights © 2009 by Todd Drummond
E-Mail: todd@todd-drummond.com
Phone:
603-763-8857
Fax 815-364-2923
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