RE: DataFusion Time Clock Data Tags

[Steve Culver]

Scott,



I, too, would be interested in what TRSA thinks would be a "standard"
use

of DataFusion's data. POH is certainly the most prominent, but
laundries
also track water use per pound and gas and electricity use. I'd like to
see

TRSA propose standards on a lot of this sort of thing.



Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: LinenMaster [mailto:scot...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 08:22
To: DataFusion
Subject: DataFusion Time Clock Data Tags



Steve,



My guess is that the following elements would need to be exported:

1) Employee First Name

2) Employee Last Name

3) ID number

4) Time Punches - In and Out by a date range

On your side I understand and agree that you would only need ID and

Name.



Then for other products such as Softrol, Dober, Micross,etc - any

product that computes production effectiveness numbers, would need the

other tags to determine how long a person was on the clock compare to

how long they were on the production floor.



This segways into my request to TRSA about reporting formula

standards, which ties into questions about key performance indicators.



For example, what is the formula for POH?



Do we use the time on the production floor or the time on from the

time and attendance system?

[Charles Hawkins]

There are several metrics that laundries use. Production Efficiency
metrics can include Pounds per Operator Hour, Pounds per Labor Dollar,
Revenue Dollar per Pound Produced, Revenue dollar per Labor Hour, and
Job or Task Efficiencies (these would be grouped into departmental
efficiencies and into an overall plant efficiency). There are Utility
efficiencies which can include Gas (Therms or BTU's per Lb produced or
100 lbs produced), Water (Gal per Lb produced) (water compared with the
sewer outflow meter to determine evaporative losses) (water into the
building compared with water through the plant to look at domestic
consumption) (water into the water softener vs water out of the water
softener to look at regeneration water consumed), Electricity (KW-HR's
per Lb produced or 100 lbs produced).

I don't think that TRSA will be able to set a defined standard of
metrics for laundries because what each laundry chooses to use for their
measurements and what is meaningful to them is really up to them. We
just have to know the available methods and have the ability to take the
raw data and refine it into these various pieces of information that a
laundry could conceivably use.

r/
Charles Hawkins