Simkins Industries Sends Buddy Punching Packing with Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems Biometric HandReaders
Packaging Manufacturer Tracks Time and Attendance for Over 300 Employees with HandPunch Terminals.
February 24, 2004
Simkins Industries Sends Buddy Punching Packing with Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems Biometric HandReaders
Packaging Manufacturer Tracks Time and Attendance for Over 300 Employees with HandPunch Terminals.
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – February 24, 2004 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that Simkins Industries, a pioneer in multi-purpose packing materials, is cutting timecard fraud by using 14 HandPunch terminals to accurately record time and attendance information at its facilities.
“We were mainly concerned with finding a way to stop employees from clocking each other in,” says John Liversidge, IT manager for Connecticut-based Simkins Industries. “In one facility, we had a group of employees playing poker at lunch. When it was time to return to work, they simply handed off their timecards and were punched in by a fellow employee, so they could continue their game.”
After unsuccessfully trying out finger scanning technology, Simkins officials enlisted the help of Optimum Solutions, a Nashville, Tenn. software development company that provides payroll, human resources, application tracking, and time and attendance software for the IBM iSeries (AS/400). Optimum Solutions recommended the HandPunch 3000 terminals.
The HandPunch terminal eliminates expenses associated with employee badges and fraud caused by buddy punching. Instead of filling out or punching timecards, employees simply place their hands on the HandPunch. It automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of the employee’s hand and verifies the user’s identity in less than one second. Hand geometry technology is the most commonly used technology for time and attendance and access control, according to Frost and Sullivan’s “World Biometrics Report 2002.”
“With the finger scanners, we constantly had problems,” Liversidge reports.
HandReaders, however, can handle any population volume with ease while providing impeccable reliability. With dramatically lower false reject and failure to enroll rates, the value of HandReaders grows as the number of users and/or transactions increases.
More than 300 employees at facilities in several states now clock in and out daily with the HandPunch terminals, which are placed at the entrance of each facility. Some departments also clock in and out for lunch.
“The installation and setup of the HandPunch terminals was quick and simple, and human resources personnel can easily be trained to enroll new employees into the system. Overall, Simkins is very pleased with the new technology,” Liversidge reports.
Simkins' HandPunch terminals are connected to a TCP/IP network. A payroll clerk at each facility calculates and verifies hours, and then transmits the information to the corporate AS/400 system. Payroll is processed weekly.
Some Simkins manufacturing facilities are still using paper timecards but, soon, all facilities will be upgraded to the HandPunch terminals, Liversidge added. Simkins officials are also considering using the readers at a facility that produces medical cartons for increased access control security.
About Simkins Industries
Founded by Samuel Simkins in 1901 as The New Haven Pulp and Paper Company, the company was one of few in the United States to pioneer the manufacture of folding cartons. Simkins has grown to thirteen manufacturing operations with excellent financial resources under the second-generation leadership of Leon Simkins. Simkins Industries remains a mid-sized, family-owned company and leading manufacturer of folding cartons, 100% recycled paperboard and specialty papers.
About Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems
With over 75,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading millions of hands each day, Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is the pioneer of hand recognition technology used in access control, time and attendance and identification applications. The company is the world sales leader of biometric verification devices and serves an international clientele from its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. The hand geometry website is www.handreader.com. Phone is 408-341-4100. Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems is the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems. The Ingersoll Rand website is www.irco.com.
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For more information…
Bill Spence Tom Brigham
IR RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4100 818-716-9021
bill_spence@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
Packaging Manufacturer Tracks Time and Attendance for Over 300 Employees with HandPunch Terminals.
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – February 24, 2004 – Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems, today announced that Simkins Industries, a pioneer in multi-purpose packing materials, is cutting timecard fraud by using 14 HandPunch terminals to accurately record time and attendance information at its facilities.
“We were mainly concerned with finding a way to stop employees from clocking each other in,” says John Liversidge, IT manager for Connecticut-based Simkins Industries. “In one facility, we had a group of employees playing poker at lunch. When it was time to return to work, they simply handed off their timecards and were punched in by a fellow employee, so they could continue their game.”
After unsuccessfully trying out finger scanning technology, Simkins officials enlisted the help of Optimum Solutions, a Nashville, Tenn. software development company that provides payroll, human resources, application tracking, and time and attendance software for the IBM iSeries (AS/400). Optimum Solutions recommended the HandPunch 3000 terminals.
The HandPunch terminal eliminates expenses associated with employee badges and fraud caused by buddy punching. Instead of filling out or punching timecards, employees simply place their hands on the HandPunch. It automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of the employee’s hand and verifies the user’s identity in less than one second. Hand geometry technology is the most commonly used technology for time and attendance and access control, according to Frost and Sullivan’s “World Biometrics Report 2002.”
“With the finger scanners, we constantly had problems,” Liversidge reports.
HandReaders, however, can handle any population volume with ease while providing impeccable reliability. With dramatically lower false reject and failure to enroll rates, the value of HandReaders grows as the number of users and/or transactions increases.
More than 300 employees at facilities in several states now clock in and out daily with the HandPunch terminals, which are placed at the entrance of each facility. Some departments also clock in and out for lunch.
“The installation and setup of the HandPunch terminals was quick and simple, and human resources personnel can easily be trained to enroll new employees into the system. Overall, Simkins is very pleased with the new technology,” Liversidge reports.
Simkins' HandPunch terminals are connected to a TCP/IP network. A payroll clerk at each facility calculates and verifies hours, and then transmits the information to the corporate AS/400 system. Payroll is processed weekly.
Some Simkins manufacturing facilities are still using paper timecards but, soon, all facilities will be upgraded to the HandPunch terminals, Liversidge added. Simkins officials are also considering using the readers at a facility that produces medical cartons for increased access control security.
About Simkins Industries
Founded by Samuel Simkins in 1901 as The New Haven Pulp and Paper Company, the company was one of few in the United States to pioneer the manufacture of folding cartons. Simkins has grown to thirteen manufacturing operations with excellent financial resources under the second-generation leadership of Leon Simkins. Simkins Industries remains a mid-sized, family-owned company and leading manufacturer of folding cartons, 100% recycled paperboard and specialty papers.
About Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems
With over 75,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading millions of hands each day, Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is the pioneer of hand recognition technology used in access control, time and attendance and identification applications. The company is the world sales leader of biometric verification devices and serves an international clientele from its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. The hand geometry website is www.handreader.com. Phone is 408-341-4100. Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems is the biometric Time & Attendance component of Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Electronic Control Systems. The Ingersoll Rand website is www.irco.com.
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For more information…
Bill Spence Tom Brigham
IR RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4100 818-716-9021
bill_spence@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com