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Joiners - Panel & Timber
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01 Kitchens
Montage Kitchens
“Montage Kitchens have been involved in the development of Empower over the last 22 years. The software has been developed largely by kitchen makers for kitchen makers that’s why it works so well for our industry.
The big screen TVs in our office and machine shop with Empower Screens on displaying our Jobs, Staff and Times in real time. Real time and accurate time information makes all our management and all our workshop staff highly transparent and highly accountable
I am confident that if we turned off Empower we would go back to taking 20% longer to manufacture our kitchens."
Jared Monk, Director
Montage Kitchens
Hamilton, New Zealand
09/10/2024
02 Commercial Joinery
The Woodsmiths (Maungatoroto)
"I estimate that without Empower Software, Jobs would slowly slip back to taking 20% longer time, and Overhead Jobs and all other forms of Unproductive time would slowly slip back to taking 50% longer.
15 years ago we used paper based manual time sheets for workshop staff to record their time on their jobs, which provided us with information that was “too little, too inaccurate, too late and too expensive to produce”. Then we progressed to electronic punch cards. Then we progressed to Empower Software. It would be a big step backwards for us to go back to electronic punch cards and it would be an even bigger step backwards to manual time sheets”
Tony Boakes, Operations Manager
021 228 3921
23/9/2022
03 Furniture Panel & Board
Peppertree Furniture
"At 10 weeks of using Empower Software we got 46% increase in factory productivity, at 6 months we had got to a 86% increase and at 3 years we had got a 100% increase in factory productivity.
On factory productivity increases alone generated by Empower Software our annual profit has increased by approximately $200,000”
Mark Tozer, Managing Director
+61 4 0000 8172
04/03/2014
04 Furniture Solid Timber
Southern Creations
"We have been using the Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software App for 10 years, its been good for us and I recommend it.
Empower is a good tool, we mainly use it for:
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Scheduling our Jobs and Tasks
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Assigning Jobs and Tasks to our Workshop Staff
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Ensure all Jobs get put into our system
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Ensure all Jobs are invoiced and correctly
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Hours Worked for Payroll"
Fraser Bickley, Managing Director
fraser@southerncreations.co.nz
11/10/2023
05 Other Furniture
Comseat Furniture
"I estimate that using Empower our factory productivity has increased by 25%. Using Empower we now have two less staff whilst at the same time increased our weekly output"
Brian Zanker, Director
+61 8 8349 8800
09/05/2016
06 Laminate Stone Tops
Beauty Craft
“We would not want to work without Empower or an alternative to it.
Without doubt Empower significantly assists us in our business to remain productive and it was definitely a sound investment.”
John Cochrane, Owner/Director
27/9/2021
07 Timber Windows and Doors
McNaughton Timber Windows and Doors
"If we did not have Empower Software we would have less clarity and less accountability and jobs would take estimated 20% longer
Currently we have been using Empower for 10 years…
In my role as production manager at intervals during the day I get a good “snapshot” of the workshop from my PC, I can see the workshop staff are on the right jobs and I can see jobs are progressing. I see jobs, staff and times in real time and times are accurate"
Malena Cheung, Account Administrator
Chris Henasy, Production Advisor
15/05/2024
08 Timber Stairs
Continental Stairs
"It’s a great tool for factory staff to manage their own times and bring their jobs in on budgeted time.
Empower was easy to put in and we were using Empower well within 2 weeks.
In the first 12 months 20% factory productivity increase. We have made incremental increases in our factory productivity using Empower over the years as management have used it more comprehensively"
Anthony Van Erp, Director
+64 21 281 4188
27/04/2014
09 Internal Doors
Independent Doors
"The future of Manufacturing is using touch screens on the workshop floor and the likes of the Empower Software App and presenting Job, Task and Individual Workshop Staff times in real time on 50 inch TV screens in the workshop and office
I estimate that our Job times and therefore our labour Cost on jobs has reduced by 20%. This is on top of a substantial reduction in time in all forms of our daily and weekly Downtime.
Empower is a great investment, we unreservedly recommend it and would not be without it"
Chris McQuire
+64 22 625 4582 or +64 3 384 1113
26/11/2021
10 Timber and Panel Processing
Halswell Timber
"I estimate that our factory productivity has increased by 25%. That is, we get 25% more production out the door each day using Empower which is 25% more daily revenue"
Allan Burt, Production Manager
+64 3 338 9199
11/07/2014
