Important Note Before You Start:

• A 10% increase in factory productivity is projected to increase annual profit by 30%
• A 20% increase in factory productivity is projected to increase annual profit by 60%
• A 30% increase in factory productivity is projected to increase annual profit by 90%

Please request our financial template to confirm. Client Case Studies in Full are Available on Request.

Engineering – Metal

Empower 21 Years

12 General Engineering

CNC Solutions (Christchurch, New Zealand)

20+% Less Time on Jobs. 20+% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“I worked for engineering businesses previously, some of which had good and some of which had poor processes, systems and reporting.  When I started CNC Solutions I had a good understanding of why it is essential to have and use good processes, systems and reporting. 

Using the Empower Software App we “run rings around” many engineering firms we compete with which have no scheduling software and only manual processes and systems which provides limited, late and inaccurate job status and labour time and labour cost reporting.

I estimate that jobs take 20% minimum less time at 20% minimum less labour cost using technology of tablets on workshop floor and Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software App.

Laine Etwell, Director

(16/2/2021)

EDS Engineering (Brisbane, QLD, Australia)

30% Less Time on Jobs.  30% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

"Empower Software has reduced our labour times and labour costs on jobs by an average of 30%, which is massive.

Our return on investment (ROI) with Empower is very high.

We looked nationwide and internationally before deciding on Empower Software and are convinced that it is the best possible labour management and job scheduling tool available by a long shot, even the big software brands did not have what Empower has.

Support from Empower office is comprehensive and amazing”

Gareth Webster, Co-Owner, +61 4 3860 0367 mb, +61 7 3881 0223 wk

(23/04/2018)

Keelow Jetboats & Avon Engineering (Gore, Southland, New Zealand)

30%+ Less Time on Jobs.  30% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“I am confident that if we turned off Empower Software today we would go back to jobs taking 30% longer at 30% higher labour cost… In summary, Empower is a great tool that we would not be without”

Paul Cross, Managing Director, +64 27 408 4057, +64 3 208 9995 wk

(03/03/2020)

Carac Engineering (Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand)

20%+ Less Time on Jobs.  20% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

"Our reduction in labour times on jobs and labour cost on jobs is 20% currently.  We are confident that we can get drive our labour times and labour cost on jobs significantly down further"

Mike Doyle, General Manager, +64 27 241 4580

(08/09/2016)

13 Sheet Metal

BIC Industries (Adelaide, SA, Australia)

Empower is the very best of Digital Manufacturing and Manufacturing Technology

“I love the workshop floor touch screens, the big TV screens and Empower Software technology, for myself and two daughters not aware of engineering and new to owning BIC Industries this technology enables us to manage our core business, our labour. We can ensure the substantial majority of our jobs come in on budgeted time and we can ensure that we refine our labour cost in our quotations to maintain profit on the majority of our jobs” 

Wendy Northey, Managing Director +61 4 1980 8588

(24 6 2024)

HotChilly Sheet Metal (Wellington, New Zealand)

Based on knowledge of other engineers in our industry and the gains they have achieved and the fact I am production manager of our workshop floor I conservatively plan to and estimate we will achieve a 25% less time on our jobs

"Based on knowledge of other engineers in our industry and the gains they have achieved and the fact I am production manager of our workshop floor I conservatively plan to and estimate we will achieve a 25% less time on our jobs…

Key Points we like about 24 inch Touch Screens on our workshop floor and the Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling Software App:

1 workshop staff engagement on their 24 inch touchscreens, they will see their job list, budgeted time at job start and actual time at job end, so staff can manage their own performance

2 all jobs and times are viewable on all the 75 inch TVs in real time for all workshop staff and all management to see
"

Craig Gadsby, Director 021 425 08

(5/4/2024)

Heat Tech Ltd (Auckland, New Zealand)

20% to 25% Increase in Factory Productivity

“'Lie sheets' my factory staff used to fill in at the end of every day. On our previous manual system we used to pay factory staff for poor performance. With Computers on the factory floor and Empower we pay factory staff accurately and fairly, which is a win win for my factory staff and the business.

In our business we employ staff of all backgrounds Indians, Japanese, Germans, Philippines and Kiwis, tradesman & non tradesmen, 20 to 60 years of age and of many religions. As production manager and owner it is necessary for me to be clear in all communications, accurate in production numbers presented and fair and equitable to all factory staff, which Empower allows me to do

We have secured a 20% to 25% increase in my factory productivity using Empower Software” Wolfgang Schoense, Owner and Production Manager, +64 9 418 1102

(19/01/2017)

Express Sheet Metals (Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand)

25%+ Less Time on Jobs.  25% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

"We were a small 10 man business manufacturing ducting struggling from job to job at $1 mill revenue per year.  4 years later we were doing $6 to $7 million per year, and now 9 years later we are employing as many as 200 staff and doing as a guide $15+ mill revenue per year.  We could not have managed and controlled our growth without Empower.

Empower Software has transformed our entire business operation. Our factory staff culture has become very positive and committed to meeting and beating the times on all our jobs.

Our jobs are taking on average 25% less time to complete [ie. a 33% increase in factory productivity].

With 25% less labour time and less labour cost we are highly cost competitive in the market place which has lead directly to our increasing sales and increasing production.  We love the Empower system and certainly would not be without it."

Mike Arcari, Director, +64 9 276 8238, +64 21 973 273 mb

(11/07/2019)

Donovan Engineering (Whangarei, New Zealand)

30% Increase in Factory Productivity

“We have witnessed the following 10 Productivity Increases using Empower Software:

1. Having Empower in for only 4 months we had dropped our nightshift and maintained same level of production...

3. All forms of time that factory staff stole in working hours during the day has been practically eliminated...

8. Having Empower in for only 4 months our lead time on jobs being completed for clients had dropped from 15 days average to 7 days average. This was a massive improvement in our customer service...

10. Overall I estimate our total factory productivity increase using Empower to date is 30%.”

Kyle Donovan, Director, +64 9 438 1562, +64 21 456 158

(24/05/2016)

AlRound Sheet Metal (Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand)

30% to 35% Increase in Factory Productivity

“Our production and our revenue has increased 10 times in our 7 years to date.

6 years ago we invested in touchscreens on our workshop floor, 55 inch TV screens for our office and Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software.  Our production and our revenue increased 4 times in the first 3 years. 

The use of Touchscreens on our workshop floor, 55 inch TV screens for our office and the Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software came highly recommended to us by colleague from local engineering firm who were using the Empower Software who had increased their production, revenue and profit substantially.

If you are using workshop staff completed manual time sheets as I was, or not recording time on jobs at all you are manufacturing “blind” of your labour time on jobs and “blind” of your labour cost on jobs, which is poor management of your labour force.  Conversely using Empower you are manufacturing with 20 20 vision with real time information from your workshop floor, and all individual workshop staff are fully aware, transparent, accountable and highly productive".

Alex Sullivan, Director, +64 21 444 403, +64 9 622 2139

(05/12/2023)

14 Stainless & Alloy Fabrication

Panther Protect & Widescreen External Blinds (Queensland, Australia)

A 40% reduction in labour time on our Jobs therefore a 40% labour cost reduction on our Jobs

“Based on Empower data to date I am very confident we will achieve:

1. a 40% reduction in labour time on our Jobs therefore a 40% labour cost reduction on our Jobs

2. All Overtime being eliminated and

3. Downtime reduction of 50% to 75%, saving 4 to 6 hours per workshop staff member per week times 7 workshop staff is a total reduction of 28 hours to 42 hours per week, which is $2,520 to $3,780 additional revenue weekly associated with the reduction in Downtime

NO Australian business should be manufacturing or engineering any product or projects without touchscreens on the workshop floor, 50 inch TVs in the workshop and office walls and the latest software technology like Empower Software. Empower is a phenomenal tool that will make widespread, massive and long term benefits to our manufacturing”

Tony Hopkins, Widescreen Product and Systems Designer, +1 914 965 1520

(20/9/2022)

Manta Marine Stainless (Auckland, New Zealand)

30% Minimum Less Time on Jobs.  30% Minimum Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“We have witnessed a minimum 30% reduction in labour times on jobs therefore 30% labour cost on jobs.  If we turned off Empower today our labour time on jobs and labour cost on jobs would increase 30% which would have a massive negative impact on our Job profitability and ultimately our sales and production levels.  We definitely would not operate our business without Empower.”

Steve and Louise Pribicevich, Directors +64 9 620 71027

(12/3/2021)

Chapman Fabrications (Adelaide, SA, Australia)

20% Less Time on Jobs.  20% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“I ceased using manual time sheets and instead I now use tablets on my workshop floor and the Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling Software App, which costs $76 per week so for my 5 workshop staff I immediately saved approximately $300 per week and $14,700 annually.

I found the Empower Software App easy and relatively quick to put in and start using.

I would guess that is we turned off Empower Software then we would have no individual staff, job and task reporting of job times, therefore no workshop staff and no management transparency, awareness and accountability the would result would be jobs would take approximately 20% more time and 20% more labour cost.”

Simon Chapman, Managing Director, +61 4 0880 6086

(14/1/2021)

Longveld Engineering (Hamilton, New Zealand)

Significant Increase in Factory Productivity, Yet to be Confirmed

“Whilst it is not easy to quantify exact % factory productivity increase using Empower Software I believe we have achieved significant factory productivity increases in the following areas:


Factory Staff seeing on the factory PC:

  1. daily job list and workload
  2. budgeted time for each job on job start
  3. time through the job as job progresses to keep on track
  4. completed time against budgeted time to monitor their own performance
  5. any other staff currently logged onto their job

Management seeing on the PCs in the office:

  1. daily job list and workload – to ensure enough work is loaded
  2. time through the job as job progresses to keep on track
  3. completed time against budgeted time on each job
  4. any other staff currently logged onto their job
  5. ability of production manager to speak to staff live on the factory floor about time on current job”

Mark Callen, General Manager Finance, +64 7 846 6901

(29/02/2016)

Easy Access Company (Maungatoroto, Northland, New Zealand)

25% Increase in Factory Productivity

"Using Empower we have achieved an estimated 25% increase in our factory productivity

Key Points we have found with Empower Software:

  1. Factory staff know the costed time and are more likely to achieve it
  2. Good for measuring productivity MTD between teams to foster friendly competition
  3. Easy for management and team leaders to assign tasks quickly and monitor production times
  4. Product back costing is very easy
  5. Simple way of recording down and unaccounted time, more staff accountability
  6. Producing WIP and forward work documentation is easy."

Neil Hodges, Production Management.  Jeff Wearmouth Director

(27/5/2016)

16 Car Trailers

Compass Trailers (Dargaville, Northland, New Zealand)

30%+ Increase in Factory Productivity

"We have achieved an estimated 30% increase in our workshop productivity...

Our advice is threefold, if you are a manufacturer or engineer make sure you chose only workshop labour management software where:

· 100% of client users of the software are manufacturers and engineers

· the software has been around for 10 or more years and

· the software has written case study proof of the significant workshop gains that many clients have achieved using the software"

Hamish Campion, Managing Director, +64 21 228 3735

(07/07/2020)

17 Truck Bodies & Trailers

Duralloy Truck Bodies (Queensland, Australia)

I estimate using touchscreens on the workshop floor and Empower Software our labour times on jobs is 20% less

"Previously we used the archaic system of manual time sheets. We invested in technology of touchscreens on workshop floor for our workshop staff use and the Empower Software App back in 2017 and never looked back"

Deana Thornton
Administration Management

0061 7 3293 2923

(20/5/2024)

Transport Engineers Southland (Invercargill, New Zealand)

Real time reporting of Jobs and Staff is huge benefit of this new technology

“Empower was easy to set up and implement. We started with the basics and added to it over time

In conjunction with Lean Manufacturing we have achieved 20% less time on Jobs using Empower Software

In summary, Empower has been very good for us, we should have done it years ago.”

Meegan, Management Team

(15/12/2022)

MARs Transport Equipment (Riverland, SA, Australia)

50%+ Increase in Factory Productivity

"Within six months of using the software we had turned our factory productivity on its ear, increasing it by an absolute minimum 30%. 

At eight years on using Empower Software we have increased our factory productivity by an estimated 50%.

We are now a much more competitive and stable business looking at growing sales, factory staff and annual profit. 

In hindsight, attempting to manage this business and attempting to manage factory staff for all those years without PCs on the factory floor and Empower time tracking software I was "pissing in the wind”.

Putting in Empower Software is the best thing I have done in my business since owning the business in 1987."

Peter Morelli, Managing Director, +61 4 1883 9156 mb

(05/07/2015)

Delta Stock Crates (Fielding, New Zealand)

10% Increase in Factory Productivity

"We get accurate manufacturing data being captured in real time. We can instantly see who is working on what and report on, and analyse, up to the minute data - from individual staff times through to accumulated time on current jobs, or just a specific part or component being manufactured. This is invaluable for at driving factory productivity which in turn helps keep manufacturing costs down.  

Currently we use only a part of Empower Software.  We don’t use Scheduling at all and we don’t use some of the productivity reporting that I have seen other Empower clients use.  Regardless, I estimate we have achieved a 10% increase in our factory productivity by using Empower Software.

Our factory staff have endorsed Empower and there is now a greater awareness and interest in meeting their times on jobs and knowing "time is money". The culture change has been quite refreshing.

Darryl Coleman, Director, +64 27 435 5386

(19/04/2016)

Combo Industries (Adelaide, SA, Australia)

15% to 20% Less Time on Jobs.  15% to 20% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

"Previously we used manual times sheets. Our workshop staff tried to remember then recorded their jobs and times on jobs at day end, many times were “fudged” by staff. They used to take each staff member approximately 10 minutes each to complete daily, which across 15 staff totals 2.5 hours per day, 12.5 hours per week of lost production and lost chargeable time totalling $1,000 per week (ie 12.5 hours times $80 per hour). Our administration staff used to take an additional 1.5 hours per day, 7.5 hours per week, collating and inputting times into our job cost spreadsheet, so wage cost, some $30 an hour, was an additional $225 per week. To produce my single job cost report from manual time sheets used to cost me $1,225 per week.

Empower cost me only $130 per week for the first 3 years and now I’m paying $49 per week. Moving from manual time sheets to Empower is saving me $1,176 per week and $61,152 per year. Plus I have gained all the additional benefits Empower Software provides: accurate times, real time reporting, reporting times of jobs and down to task level, reporting times of individual workshop staff, reporting real time jobs, staff and times on 55 inch TVs on office walls and workshop walls, job scheduling and a 15% to 20% reduction in job times and 15% to 20% reduction in labour cost on jobs "

Darryl Barber, Director, +61 8 8349 4366, +61 4 1884 2670

(31/07/2020)

Otago Transport Engineers (OTE) (Dunedin, New Zealand)

20% Less Time on Jobs.  20% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“We have achieved an estimated 20% reduction in time on jobs overall.

I am a big believer of work shop staff and job times transparency.  Empower reports time in real time and accurate to the minute which is very powerful. 
 
In summary Empower is an amazing tool that makes my life easier and allows me to do a better job as production manager"
Richard Swale, Production Manager, +64 3 489 2553

(28/08/2020)

18 Agricultural Equipment

Landquip Engineering (Hastings, New Zealand)

Our previous manual time sheet system was very expensive in lost production hours per workshop staff member per day by our 15 staff and our administration time per day approximately $90 per workshop staff member per week so our 15 workshop staff was costing us $1,350 per week and costing us $67,500 per year.

Empower Software for our 15 workshop staff is now costing only us $157 per week and only costing us $8,164 per year.

We are confident that using touchscreens on the workshop floor, TV in the workshop and Empower Software we will secure the following:
- 20% or more reduction in manufacturing times
- 50% or more reduction in all forms of our downtime

Calie de Nysschen, Production Manager calie@landquip.co.nz

(13/05/2024)

NuFab Industries (Wonthella, WA, Australia)

We have probably reduced our labour time on jobs by 20% to 30%, therefore reduced our labour cost on jobs by 20% to 30%

Sarah Allen-Hauser, Administration

(25/06/2024)

Rata Industries (Timaru, New Zealand)

40%+ Increase in Factory Productivity within the First 3 months

 "We witnessed a 40% increase in our factory productivity within the first 3 months.

A colleague running another manufacturing business heard we had Empower and phoned me to seek my advice.  I respectfully advised him at the end of our conversation "you would be mad not to put Empower in as it certainly does work".  The colleague followed my advice and put in Empower and I know he too has secured substantial increases in his factory productivity and is very happy with it"

Bert Walton, Production Director, +64 3 688 2478

(20/04/2016)

19 Industrial Equipment

Global Pumps (NSW and WA Australia)

Conservatively we have reduced our labour time on jobs by 10%

Empower is our workshop productivity and scheduling software and MYOB Exo is our accounting software, which interface seamlessly with each other. All New Jobs when entered into MYOB Exo and when saved go straight to Empower and at intervals throughout the day job times…

Workshop staff have long list on Tasks and Jobs ahead of them on Empower on their workshop devices. This keeps workshop staff fully: aware, engaged, time and job focused and therefore highly productive…

Empower enables management, production management and workshop foreman to all be involved in scheduling and assigning Tasks and Jobs. This makes for far more accurate and effective scheduling of forward work… Empower Software saves us practically a full time scheduling management role and associated cost, in scheduling area alone…

Pru Seeley, Project Co-Ordinator, Global Pumps
Pru.Seeley@globalpumps.com.au

(12/10/2023)

Equiptec (Napier, New Zealand)

10% Less Labour Time on Jobs. 10% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“Using tablets on the workshop floor and Empower Software workshop staff focus on meeting and beating the times they are given, as budgeted times. Before Empower there was no target time and therefore no time urgency by workshop staff, and Jobs simply took the time they took.

Empower is a very good reporting tool, with wide range of standard reports and screens, on all aspects of production, productivity, work in progress and scheduling.”

Bruce Senior, Managing Director and Tom Senior, Operations Manager,
+64 6 842 0222

(15/6/2021)

Dix Engineering, (Remark, SA, Australia)

20% Less Time on Jobs. 20% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“If we turned off Empower today then tomorrow onwards jobs would go back to taking 20% or more longer at 20% higher labour cost. The technology of Empower Software and the workshop floor tablets certainly makes workshop staff aware and engaged and it enables workshop staff to continually meet and manage their times on all jobs”

Andrew Parkinson, Managing Director, PH: 08 8586 1500, MB: 0418 210 124, Email: awelton@canam.co.nz

(9/12/2020)

20 Mechanical Components

Tricon Drilling Solutions (Perth, WA, Australia)

We have witnessed a conservative 20% reduction on times on jobs and labour cost on jobs

Key Points we have found using the Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling Software App:

1 easy, quick and enjoyable for workshop staff and management to use
2 transparency of times on jobs and job status in real time is highly valuable
3 real time reporting of times on jobs and job status is highly valuable
4 good for scheduling
5 good for improving our budgeted labour time and labour cost in our quotations
6 good for staff performance reviews

Anyone is welcome to contact me regarding Empower

Diovian Luwandri, Technical Services Manager, +61 8 9477 2666, Perth@Triconds.com.au

(18/5/2023)

Accurate Australia (Brisbane, Qld, Australia)

30% to 50% Less Time on Jobs.  30% to 50% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

Using Empower we have 30% to 50% less time on jobs therefore 30% to 50% less labour cost on jobs

The number of jobs we deliver to clients on due date has increased substantially using Empower.  Our DIFOT % (Delivered In Full On Time) is almost 100% monthly

My discussions with workshop staff are now backed up fully with accurate real time reporting, so I can be fair, equitable and professional

Our 50 inch TV screens on office walls and workshop walls, Empower always reporting all jobs, all staff and all job times in real time continuously throughout the day certainly increases workshop staff awareness, engagement and focus

Kate Honeyman, Production and Sales Administrator, +61 7 3881 3056

(2/11/2020)

Carac Engineering Group (Taranaki, New Zealand)

20% Less Time on Jobs.  20% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“Using Empower Software, we now have a companywide, all workshop staff, all management and all administration staff awareness of and focus on job times.  All management and all staff in the same boat rowing in the same direction

Our reduction in labour times on jobs and labour cost on jobs is 20% currently.  We are confident that we can get drive our labour times and labour cost on jobs significantly down further”

Mike Doyle, General Manager, +64 27 241 4580

(27/02/2020)

21 Aluminium Windows & Doors

Versalite Windows and Doors (Tamworth, NSW, Australia)

40%+ Increase in Factory Productivity

"Using Empower our staff and factory productivity has increased by 40%, saves us around $96,000 per year in wage cost and has brought about a significant and real positive culture change to our factory floor."

Michael Myers, Managing Director, +61 2 6765 3222, +61 4 2960 9568 mb

(08/07/2014)

Packers Windows and Doors (Adelaide, SA, Australia)

40%+ Increase in Factory Productivity

“Empower definitely makes our factory staff fully conscious of the times we have sold the jobs for (ie the budgeted times that they see on Empower on the factory PC screens). So factory staff are aware of what is expected of them and they appreciate having the target times and direction.

We have achieved a 40% increase in our factory productivity"

Seb Packer, Managing Director

(06/07/2014)

Sandbrooks Marine Windows (Wiri, Auckland, New Zealand)

10% Increase in Factory Productivity in 4 Weeks.  20% Increase in Factory Productivity Target within 3 months

"In the very first four weeks we achieved a 10% increase in output. This is the equivalent to a saving in wages of two factory staff totalling $60,000 saving per year.

We are confident we will get our increase in output to at least 20% within the next two months. This will be the equivalent to a saving in wages of four factory staff totalling $120,000 saving per year."

Glen Sandbrook, Director, +64 276 872 874     
glen@sandbrooks.co.nz

(18/06/2007)

22 Steel Windows & Doors

Crittall Arnold Windows (Auckland, New Zealand)

22% Increase in Factory Productivity

"Across our 18 factory staff we have achieved an estimated 130.5 additional production hours per week, which is enormous. This is an estimated 22% increase in our factory productivity"

Darren Arnold, Managing Director, +64 9 296 5520

(28/02/2017)

23 Aluminium Boats

Makaira Boats (Auckland, New Zealand) – July 2024

My goal is to reduce non value added labour through continuous improvement of process and line set up and empower is a critical tool to evaluate our improvement. Since we invested in Empower we have improved some procedures by 50% in man hours.

In 2017 we invested in Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software to manage our staffs time keeping and production tracking, we installed 55 inch TV Screens in workshop presenting our Jobs, Staff and all Times in real time this investment in technology 6 years ago has helped Makaira Boats to: 

  • increase from 6 to 26 workshop staff 
  • more than sixfold our production 
  • purpose design and build a new production lines for typically 8 to 10 metre boats to flow through our production cells 
  • achieve and maintain substantial boat orders worldwide… 

I believe we have world class software in the Empower Software tool

Allan Shaw, Director Makaira Boats

(7/8/2024)

DNA Boats (Nelson, New Zealand) – June 2024

We then advanced to Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software, complete labour productivity software to give us specifically what we needed as a jobbing engineer.

Initially we were paper based manual time sheets that workshop staff filled in their jobs and times daily, this was very expensive in lost production time daily and management time rekeying into our job cost system, to produce a single report total time on each boat, times that were woefully inaccurate and reporting that was 2 days after production had occurred.

We then advanced to electronic time tracking of jobs, which was far better than manual time sheets but very limited in reporting.

I estimate our Jobs are completed in 20% less labour time at 20% less labour cost on each boat

Jason Elvines, Director DNA Boats

(20/6/2024)

Arcalloy (Invercargill, New Zealand) – February 2022

Ballpark we have reduced our job times by at least 20% to date.

“1 Empower provides us with the latest technology in digital manufacturing. Workshop staff get their job lists on their tablets on the workshop floor. Management and workshop staff get real time reporting on all Tasks, Jobs, Downtimes, Individual Staff and all times

2 I like the real time reporting of all production 50 inch TV screen, which is presenting real time job times down to individual staff and their Jobs continuously 8 hours a day".

Doug Jukes, Production Manager

(1/2/2022)

Stabicraft Marine (Invercargill, New Zealand)

Significant but confidential

“10 years ago I worked at Stabicraft Marine in a Manufacturing role and I witnessed first-hand how well PCs on the workshop floor and the Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling App worked at making our manufacturing staff a lot more engaged and a lot more productive.  I also witnessed back then how our Production Manager used the tool to very good effect, Empower’s real time accurate times compared to budgeted times to Jobs, Tasks and Individual staff.

I will now be fully responsible for the Empower Software tool at Stabicraft and fully responsible for planning and driving and maximising workshop productivity.  Empower has certainly developed enormously over the last 10 years I look forward to using it.”

Damian McNaught, Manufacturing Manager, +64 21 223 6717  

(5/10/2021)

Stabibuild (Auckland, New Zealand)

30% Less Time on Jobs. 30% Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“The age-old saying, “you cannot manage what you cannot measure,” could not be more true for Stabibuild.

Our core business is labour management and Empower enables us to monitor our labour accurately and in real time.

Our labour time on jobs have reduced 30% conservatively, using Empower Software.

Empower Software is great technology and is an integral and vital part of our business – I would not be without it.”

Blair Neal, Manufacturing Manager, +64 27 410 5012, blair@stabibuild.co.nz

(21/7/2021)

Makaira Boats (Keri Keri, New Zealand)

30%+ Less Time on Jobs.  30%+ Less Labour Cost on Jobs

“We have only been using Empower for 9 months and I estimate we have made approximately a 30% reduction in our labour times and labour cost already.

"My goal is to reduce our labour times and labour cost by 50%.”

Allan Shaw, Director, +64 21 121 8889mb, +64 9 401 6641 wk

(13/01/2019)

Keelow Jet Boats & Avon Engineering (Gore, New Zealand)

30% Increase in Factory Productivity

“I am confident that if we turned off Empower Software today we would go back to jobs taking 30% longer at 30% higher labour cost…

In summary, Empower is a great tool that we would not be without”

Paul Cross, Managing Director, +64 27 408 4057 mb, +64 3 208 9995 wk

(03/03/2020)

24 Campervans, Caravans

TrailLite Motor Homes & Caravans (Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand)

Significant Increase in Factory Productivity

“We employ 70 staff…We are building 90 motor homes a year and the price range of each motor home is $250,000 to $350,000

I like the technology of tablets on workshop floor and Empower Software App which provides us accurate to the minute job times, task times and individual staff times on tasks and real time reporting

The reduction in job times and labour cost using the Empower Software App have been and are significant.

We are very happy with the Empower Software App, it is an important reporting tool in our business that we would not be without”

Shaun Newman, General Manager, TrailLite Motor Homes, PH: +64 9 238 6869

(13/11/2020)

26 Building Products – Metal

Smart Shelters (Auckland, New Zealand)

We estimate that using touch screens on the workshop floor and Empower Software we complete our jobs in 20% less time.

“We estimate that using touch screens on the workshop floor and Empower Software we complete our jobs in 20% less time…

We previously used an electronic time on job capturing system, that gave us two reports namely: Hours Worked for Payroll and Labour Job Cost, total time on each job.  In comparison to our previous electronic time capturing system Empower Software does enormously more for us…

The Empower Software program itself is progressing and improving significantly all the time.”

Jim Cottle, SmartShelters

(18/10/2022)

DomeShelter Australia (Cunderdin, Western Australia)

Confidential

“Our staff are a lot more aware of job priorities and a lot more aware of their budgeted times and actual times on jobs

When individual staff challenge the budgeted times for tasks and jobs, I enjoy presenting them with accurate budgeted times based on accurate actual times averages, which confirms the budgeted times are realistic and accurate

As a production scheduler I would not be without Empower Software I am happy with it

We are now moving into new manufacturing premises to cope with our growth.”

Cristina Mico, Steel Production Scheduler, +61 8 9690 1100

(20/7/2021)