Manufacturing Labor Tracking

YOUR MOST CONTROLLABLE COST.
NOW UNDER CONTROL.

You can't control a cost you measure after the fact. Labor is captured at the machine, validated against what it actually ran, and delivered to your ERP verified; so cost per part, setup variance, and absorption become numbers you manage rather than numbers you explain.

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Labor tracking costing

KNOW WHAT LABOR ACTUALLY COSTS.

Time entered from memory is rarely accurate. Setup gets buried in run time, and bad labor data becomes the standard behind your costs and quotes. That’s how you win work that loses money and pass on work that could make it. Capture labor as it happens and validate it against what the machine actually did.

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MARGIN VISIBLE BY JOB, PART, AND CUSTOMER

See what each job actually cost using real labor, machine time, and quantities, so you know where you’re making money and where you’re not.

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MARGIN ON THE WORK YOU BID

Compare routing standards against demonstrated labor to correct bad assumptions and price new work from what production actually takes.

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UNEXPLAINED LABOR VARIANCE

Compare earned hours to worked hours by team and operation, with setup separated from run, so you can see exactly where labor variance comes from.

CAPTURED AT THE MACHINE.
CHECKED AGAINST IT.

Labor backed by machine evidence, not operator recollection, because every costing, quoting, and payroll decision downstream is only as good as the hours behind it.

Clocking in is signing in. There's no second system.

Operators clock in and out through ShopPulse, with hours captured automatically and errors caught at the source. Open work is closed before the shift ends, creating complete labor records without duplicate entry or another system to manage.

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The record that carries the job from setup to completion.

Capture operator time, part counts, rejects, and job status as work happens. Setup and run time stay separate, so actual performance can be compared against estimates and labor variance becomes measurable.

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The labor claim, checked against machine reality.

Validate reported labor, quantities, setup, and production against actual machine activity. Discrepancies surface when the work is recorded, not at month-end, giving supervisors and finance a labor record they can trust.

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Verified transactions, under the name of the person who ran the job.

ERP work orders and standards flow in. Verified labor, quantities, setup and cycle times, and completion status flow back, tied to the operator who did the work. Costing, quoting, and payroll run from the same record.

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Which parts, jobs, and customers are actually profitable.

Cost work using actual labor, machine time, and quantities. Compare actual performance against standards to find margin gaps, correct bad routings, and make better decisions about what to bid, how to price it, and when to walk away.

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A labor record that survives an audit.

Keep a complete history of every punch and change, with configurable rules for overtime, shifts, exceptions, and access. Labor records stay complete and traceable without reconstructing timecards when an audit comes around.

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See It In Action

Tuffaloy connects labor to what actually happened at the machine, giving teams better data for costing, quoting, and decision-making while Epicor remains the system of record. HOURS YOU CAN DEFEND.

TESTIMONIALS

NOBODY RECONSTRUCTS THE SHIFT ANYMORE.

Manufacturers costing jobs on verified labor, correcting routings against demonstrated performance, and closing a period without a reconciliation exercise.

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TWO CLICKS. THEN IT'S ON THE RECORD.

"When that machinist arrives at the machine, it's two clicks to identify that they are working on that machine, and then a button when they're done. And that gives us a lot more confidence in that labor data."

- Bill Barian, CEO, Pindel Global Precision

"We've seen a 20% increase in machine utilization. Additionally, our overtime hours have reduced significantly, from over 800 hours in January to just 33 hours in the past month."

- Ceri Davies, Operations Manager, Wall Colmonoy

Hamilton

“The cost of everything we do is based on time. If we don’t have accurate times, the entire theory of what we’re doing falls apart.”

- Philip Linscheid, Director of Manufacturing, Hamilton Company

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