The Challenge One of the largest manufacturers of US Navy vessels needed to replace their manual card- based system for tracking labor hours allocated to various contracts. As a defense contractor , they needed to abide by the strict labor accountability guidelines imposed by the US Department of Defense (DoD). “We have in excess of a quarter of a million different labor charges that we have to keep track of,” says the manufacturer’ s manager of manufacturing systems. Previously , supervisors used to record and allocate labor to job codes, since training each of their 9,000 workers in the intricacies of recording such information on their own time cards “would be a big task, maybe even an impossible task to be really effective,” he says. The supervisors spent about one and a half hou

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