Kronos Essentials | Manufacturing
Improve Your Manufacturing Labor Effectiveness
If you're running a small to midsize manufacturing operation, you'll probably agree that it gets more difficult every year to increase labor effectiveness, reduce production costs, and deliver quality products because of:
- Tight labor and materials budgets
- Strict schedules and deadlines
- A shortage of skilled workers
- Increasing price pressure from low-cost, offshore competition
Kronos Essentials can help.
Benefits of increased manufacturing labor effectiveness
Kronos Essentials is the ideal time and attendance fit for manufacturing operations with fewer than 2,500 employees. It helps you boost productivity and labor effectiveness while reducing production costs by using your resources wisely and rigorously managing compliance issues.
Want to identify and eliminate the ways your workforce contributes to the seven wastes of lean? Look to Kronos Essentials. You can start managing your workforce with a clear picture of which labor costs are paying off and which aren't. In short, Kronos Essentials can help you make confident decisions that drive operational excellence.
With Kronos Essentials you can:
- Reduce operating costs by minimizing the need for premium pay
- Shorten lead times by reducing indirect time spent on non-value added activities
- Improve productivity through constant access to critical information, such as WIP status and shop floor constraints
- Optimize workforce scheduling by aligning resources with demand
- Lessen your risk of union violations, employee grievances, and compliance penalties
Even better, you can count on your Kronos solution to evolve with your workforce management needs.
Here's how to learn more right now
- View a two-minute demo about time and attendance, labor activity tracking, or employee data collection
- Read how we've helped other manufacturers
- Learn how Overall Labor Effectiveness, a key performance indicator, can help your organization measure the utilization, performance, and quality of your workforce and its impact on productive output
In a rush? Call us at (877) 844-1479 today and learn more about how thousands of small to midsize manufacturing organizations use Kronos solutions every day.
Discover more about workforce management solutions in manufacturing:
- Enabling Lean Initiatives with Kronos Article by Elliott Company
- Kronos for Manufacturing: The Workforce Management Solution for Achieving Operational Excellence
- White Paper: The Lean Workforce Applying Lean Principles to Improve Workforce Management
- Sunrise Growers customer profile
- Visit the Resource Center for additional documents


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