Cost, budget & profitability

How to connect shop floor time to project cost

Shop-floor time only becomes job cost if people clock the project while they work. Spectr tracks fabrication labour by project — machine time, boards, and hours — so those hours are not a yellow pad at the time clock.

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Key facts

A time clock with no job code is payroll, not job cost.
Spectr’s fabricate story includes labour hours tracked by project.
If clocking a job takes a minute, people will clock the default job.
Field hours belong on the same project or install overtime stays invisible.

How shops handle this

Make the job one tap
The board or scan should already know the project.
Split work centers if they tell different stories
Saw hours and crate hours are not the same bottleneck.
Review the outliers weekly
A job eating hours is a sequence or revision problem, not a lecture.
Keep accounting as the ledger
Push better actuals. Do not restart finance to fix the brake.

Common questions

Piece rate or hourly?

Either can feed a project. The system needs the hours or the pieces on the right job.

Will people game it?

They already do on paper. A visible job-cost trend is harder to hide than a timesheet code.

Experience how Spectr could fit in your shop

From the jobs you're quoting now to the installs you're managing next month — we'll walk through your actual work, not a canned tour.

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