Streamlined Time & Attendance Tracking For Subcontract Precision Engineers

Subcontract precision engineers often struggle with time-consuming, error-prone processes when tracking employee hours and calculating payroll. These inefficiencies create administrative headaches, keeping managers tied to the office and reducing the time they can spend on productive and profitable activities, such as overseeing company operations and focussing on quality component production.

PSL Datatrack’s Time & Attendance (T&A) module was developed to address and resolve these pain points, saving time, improving accuracy and ensuring easy payroll calculations for a great number of subcontractors. Read on to learn more!

Time-Consuming Payroll Calculations

Without an automated system, payroll calculations become a time-intensive task. The traditional approach often requires administrative staff to spend hours reconciling timesheets and making manual adjustments, which detracts from more important, profit-driving tasks.

On the other hand, PSL Datatrack drastically reduces the time required to calculate payroll. Once employee hours are recorded, a report for any given period can be generated at the push of a button, allowing managers to finalise the payroll in minutes – not hours.

PSL Datatrack’s solution therefore boosts efficiency, freeing up administrative staff to focus on more strategic, value-added activities.

Manual Errors and Payroll Inaccuracies

For many manufacturing businesses, manual time-tracking methods are still the norm. These processes are prone to human error, which can lead to payroll inaccuracies and, ultimately, frustrated employees. Even small mistakes made when logging time can lead to costly discrepancies, affecting calculations and overall labour cost management.

The PSL Datatrack T&A module, however, automates the process of recording working hours, eliminating the potential for those manual errors. Existing PCs can be utilised, meaning no investment in additional hardware is required.

This accuracy leads to reliable payroll calculations, giving management confidence that labour costs are correctly accounted for, removing the stress of potential payroll discrepancies and keeping staff happy.

Limited Visibility

Tracking real-time attendance and employee productivity is challenging without a modern, digital system. With physical clock card machines, it’s difficult for management to gain an accurate, to-the-minute view of who is in and working on the shop floor.

The T&A module from PSL Datatrack addresses this pain point with robust, real-time reporting capabilities. Managers can access comprehensive data on employee attendance and productivity, integrated with Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) and Status Boards for a full operational overview.

These valuable insights enable better planning and review, helping users manage workforce capacity more effectively.

Compliance and Record-Keeping Challenges

Manual record-keeping can complicate compliance with company policies and industry standards, especially during audits or when managing complex attendance policies. Ensuring the integrity of these records can be a difficult and time-consuming task.

As with all PSL Datatrack modules, T&A is highly configurable, allowing each business running it to configure it to their specific needs. Criteria and rules for early and late clock-ins, lunch breaks, holiday and sickness are easily catered for.

This makes it easy to adhere to company policy and maintain accurate records that fulfil ISO and other accreditation requirements.

By addressing each of these common pain points, PSL Datatrack’s Time & Attendance module delivers a highly effective solution for subcontract precision engineers. Employees can clock in and out using a range of devices, including touch screens, barcode scanners and even advanced technology, such as iris recognition software. Embracing this modern solution simplifies attendance tracking, improves accuracy and ensures easy payroll calculations for subcontract precision engineers. Contact us today to find out how we can help your business to streamline and improve.