IBEX

Situation

Established in 1974, Ancast is a family-owned manufacturing company located in the west-end industrial park in Winnipeg, Man. A second-generation organization, Ancast manufactures cores, mouldings and castings and is dedicated to high-quality products and customer service.

Problem

At Ancast, calculating payroll was literally a ‘dirty’ job. An old-fashioned time clock was situated in a very dusty location of the foundry. Even the timecards were covered in a layer of dust, making it a messy job to go through them to calculate employee hours. It was even more frustrating when, due to constant dust and grime, the time clock wouldn’t work and hours were simply written on the cards. It also took a lot of time to transfer information from the cards to a spreadsheet and then into the payroll system. A cleaner, more effective and efficient system was needed.

Solution

When a brief test of a biometric hand scanner proved unsuccessful, the IBEX IT team built a computer terminal that could withstand the harsh, dusty conditions of Ancast. Not only was the system able to accurately and reliably collect employee hours, but with its unique iPunch software, it was able to feed that information directly into the existing payroll software. Now, payroll staff no longer need to wear their coveralls to process their payroll.

With the newly-integrated iPunch hardware and software, employees are able to easily and reliably ‘punch’ in and out, the payroll staff spends far less time collecting payroll data, payroll accuracy has greatly improved and Ancast saved money by having iPunch work with its existing payroll software.

Diane Simpson, who works in the human resource department at Ancast, says she can't believe the difference the IBEX solution made in her workplace.

“I’m just so amazed and thrilled with how the system works… and that everything is totally automated and integrated.”