Shop floor & inventory

How to track labour hours by facade project

Labour hours only help if they hit the project while the work is happening. Spectr tracks fabrication labour by project — machine time, boards, and hours required — and field crews can log time by task in the same system.

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Key facts

Hours in a time clock with no job code are payroll, not job cost.
Spectr’s public fabricate story includes labour hours tracked by project.
The install app can log time by task so field hours are not a yellow pad.
Budget vs actual needs the same project the estimator used.

How shops handle this

Make the job easy to pick
If clocking a project takes a minute, people will clock the default job.
Capture at the work center
Saw hours and crate hours are different stories.
Include the field
Last-trade overtime is often where the job dies.
Review weekly, not at closeout
A surprise at month-end is an accounting report, not management.

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.

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