O’Neal Steel Employs Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems Biometric HandPunch in 35 Locations
For Over 7 Years, the Largest Family-Owned Metal Business in the U.S. Uses Biometrics for Access Control and Time & Attendance
November 29, 2006
CAMPBELL, CALIF. – November 29, 2006 – Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that O’Neal Steel, a full-line metal service center headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is using 46 of its biometric HandPunch terminals in 35 locations across the United States to input time and attendance. O’Neal Steel is the largest family-owned metals service center in the United States, employing 2500 workers and operating multiple locations across the nation.
Instead of re-implementing a new system of badge readers, O’Neal Steel wanted to avoid past experiences of employees losing their badges or buddy-punching, in which one employee punches in or out for another. As a result, O’Neal Steel selected the HandPunch, which automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verifies the user's identity in less than one second. These biometric readers eliminate the need for employees to carry a badge, thus purging the problem of lost or forgotten badges. HandPunches provide more accurate information about who, where and when employees are working and eliminate buddy-punching.
“People lose their badges. Fingerprint does not function well in the dirt and dust so the HandPunch was the answer for us. We find hand geometry to be less intrusive and the best functioning biometric in a harsh environment,” said Bill Burks, network specialist with O’Neal Steel. “The best thing of all is that there are no badges involved and employees simply can’t lose their hands. Most of the 46 original biometric handreaders are still in service seven years later and need very little maintenance.”
The HandPunch readers operate in a warehouse setting where there is an abundance of dust and oftentimes water leaks from the corrugated metal roofs. The units are installed in enclosures at the entrance to the buildings and at the break rooms. In order to clock-in, employees plug in their employee number and then present their hand.
O’Neal Steel is using Attendance Enterprise software for time and attendance. Being online, O’Neal Steel can monitor who is at different locations throughout the day. In addition, employees can transfer from one cost center to another, using the HandPunch to record the time it takes to complete a project or make repairs. When needed, payroll can be done from a home office on the weekend because all data is transferable and accessible via the Internet.
O’Neal Steel’s time and attendance solution was implemented by Gorrie Regan & Associates of Birmingham, Ala.
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems was named a recent recipient of the Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market. Website is www.recognitionsystems.ingersollrand.com.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and biometric access control systems; time-and-attendance and personnel scheduling systems; mechanical locks; portable security; door closers, exit devices, architectural hardware, and steel doors and frames; and other technologies and services for global security markets. Website is www.securitytechologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. With a 135-year-old heritage of technological innovation, we help companies worldwide to be more productive, efficient and innovative. In every line of our business, Ingersoll Rand enables companies and their customers to create progress.
-30-
NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch reader, go to www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/Schlage Recognition Systems.
For more information…
Bashar Masad Tom Brigham
INGERSOLL RAND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4133 818-716-9021
bashar_masad@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
263-102606
Instead of re-implementing a new system of badge readers, O’Neal Steel wanted to avoid past experiences of employees losing their badges or buddy-punching, in which one employee punches in or out for another. As a result, O’Neal Steel selected the HandPunch, which automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verifies the user's identity in less than one second. These biometric readers eliminate the need for employees to carry a badge, thus purging the problem of lost or forgotten badges. HandPunches provide more accurate information about who, where and when employees are working and eliminate buddy-punching.
“People lose their badges. Fingerprint does not function well in the dirt and dust so the HandPunch was the answer for us. We find hand geometry to be less intrusive and the best functioning biometric in a harsh environment,” said Bill Burks, network specialist with O’Neal Steel. “The best thing of all is that there are no badges involved and employees simply can’t lose their hands. Most of the 46 original biometric handreaders are still in service seven years later and need very little maintenance.”
The HandPunch readers operate in a warehouse setting where there is an abundance of dust and oftentimes water leaks from the corrugated metal roofs. The units are installed in enclosures at the entrance to the buildings and at the break rooms. In order to clock-in, employees plug in their employee number and then present their hand.
O’Neal Steel is using Attendance Enterprise software for time and attendance. Being online, O’Neal Steel can monitor who is at different locations throughout the day. In addition, employees can transfer from one cost center to another, using the HandPunch to record the time it takes to complete a project or make repairs. When needed, payroll can be done from a home office on the weekend because all data is transferable and accessible via the Internet.
O’Neal Steel’s time and attendance solution was implemented by Gorrie Regan & Associates of Birmingham, Ala.
Ingersoll Rand Recognition Systems was named a recent recipient of the Application Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and attendance applications in Frost Sullivan’s study, World Biometrics Market. Website is www.recognitionsystems.ingersollrand.com.
About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and biometric access control systems; time-and-attendance and personnel scheduling systems; mechanical locks; portable security; door closers, exit devices, architectural hardware, and steel doors and frames; and other technologies and services for global security markets. Website is www.securitytechologies.ingersollrand.com.
Ingersoll Rand is a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction, and agriculture. With a 135-year-old heritage of technological innovation, we help companies worldwide to be more productive, efficient and innovative. In every line of our business, Ingersoll Rand enables companies and their customers to create progress.
-30-
NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a HandPunch reader, go to www.brighamscully.com. Click Photographs/Schlage Recognition Systems.
For more information…
Bashar Masad Tom Brigham
INGERSOLL RAND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BRIGHAM SCULLY
408-341-4133 818-716-9021
bashar_masad@irco.com tbrigham@brighamscully.com
263-102606