COVID-19 forced Mara Technologies to re-evaluate every process, including time tracking, to support the need to keep employees healthy at work. As a trusted provider of manufacturing services, Mara’s focus is providing quality products on-time as a trusted partner for their customers. This focus means that unplanned shutdowns or shift quarantines were unacceptable. This re-evaluation created an opportunity to improve time tracking speed and accuracy along with safeguarding employee health, so Mara sought a new system that offers touchless clockins, health screening, and digital record-keeping.

Touchless Biometrics and Health Screening Improve Time Tracking Workflows

IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit is Invixium’s premier solution for employee and visitor health screening. A thermal infrared camera combines with IXM TITAN’s on-board 21 MP face recognition camera to simultaneously screen a person’s temperature while they complete face recognition for workforce management or access control. Mara Technologies installed two devices at their worksite for time tracking because of the unmatched speed, accuracy, and convenience this solution provides. Combined with IXM WEB, Invixium’s enterprise-grade software for device management, and IXM Time, the addition to IXM WEB specifically designed for workforce management, Mara enjoys simple, accurate time tracking and health screening with a digital audit trail.

The benefits of automating temperature screening and time tracking with IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit include:

• Unmatched Speed from Automation: Automated biometric time tracking and temperature screening speed up the process of clocking in and screening employee temperatures, so people can get to work faster.
• Touchless Biometrics Limit the Spread of Illness: Touchless biometrics limit the number of surfaces touched to track time, which reduces the potential spread of illness at work.
• Digitized Audit Trail: The time tracking data tracked and analyzed by IXM Time helps management make smarter decisions about employees, shifts, and more while improving the ease of payroll calculation.

“Partnering with Invixium helps streamline entrance screening for employees and visitors. Improvements we experienced after installing TITAN include faster shift changes, more effective payroll management, and a happier, more productive staff,” said Peter Schmied, President and COO at Mara Technologies. “As the future continues to change, we know that an easier time tracking process can help us adapt when our customers demand it. Getting to work easily is critical to staying productive as deadlines shift and supply chains tighten. We’re pleased that our Invixium workforce management system supports our long-term vision.”

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www.invotekgroup.com

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Meeting in person is a critical activity for PPI as they aim to educate personnel and advance the plastic pipe industry. COVID-19 halted all face-to-face gathering as early as March 2020 and did immense harm to PPI’s goals. As members grew fatigued of video calls and webinar attendance dropped, PPI leadership knew that getting back to in-person meetings was a must, and they had to do it the right way to ensure that guests are kept safe. Leadership began the monumental task of re-vamping in-person meetings for their members in time for their annual fall conference with an anticipated attendance of over 150 people. Easy-to-implement solutions included encouraging social distancing and mask wearing, but the organization’s biggest challenge proved to be deciding on an accurate, touchless temperature screening solution.

IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit Reduces Spread of Illness at In-Person Meetings

PPI considered two options for temperature screening: one that measures skin surface temperature, and IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit, which measures temperature at the tear duct. Upon further research, PPI learned that the dual-camera thermography offered by IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit is the superior choice because measuring temperature at the tear duct, as opposed to screening overall skin temperature, has a greater correlation with a person’s core body temperature.

Due to their location in Texas, PPI was able to consult with Invixium on-site to design two entry points around the Invixium solution. During visitor check-in, IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit quickly screens each person’s temperature to ensure that no one showing signs of illness is admitted to the conference. Invixium further assisted PPI by customizing audio and visual feedback on IXM TITAN’s 5.0” LCD screen with PPI and event branding that offers guests a seamless look and feel while allowing admissions personnel to social distance from potentially-ill guests. By relying on IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit to keep staff and guests healthy, PPI is able to focus on a safe, productive return to the in-person meetings that drive their business.

The benefits of automating temperature screening during the visitor check-in process for PPI include:

• High Accuracy, Touchless Temperature Measurement:Invixium’s unique dual camera thermography that focuses on the tear duct offers greater accuracy than heat-sensing cameras or thermal guns. The tear duct is the skin surface location with the highest correlation to core body temperature with the lowest risk of being impacted by ambient temperature.
• High Visitor Screening Speeds:The Invixium solution boasts a screening speed of 12 to 15 people per minute which enables PPI to keep admissions lines moving for its 150 attendees per day. Keeping these lines moving promotes social distancing and a positive guest experience overall by allowing visitors to quickly check in and move to their destination.
• Hands-On Support: On-site, customized support from Invixium helped PPI design their entrances around IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit for convenient visitor screening, easier social distancing, and increased staff and guest confidence.

“We felt that the overall quality of the Invixium product, specifically the tear duct-based temperature screening, met our high standards for member safety,” said David Fink, President at Plastics Pipe Institute. “We’re really impressed with the temperature screening from IXM TITAN Enhancement Kit as well as the potential for IXM TITAN to be an all-in-one solution for touchless, automated access control or time tracking that could benefit a variety of businesses. I think any organization could benefit greatly from working with Invixium.”

For more information, visit:
www.invixium.com
www.plasticpipe.org

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When the COVID-19 outbreak took hold in the United States in March of 2020, PPG took swift action by hiring additional security professionals to screen employee temperatures before entering their chemical plant. PPG hired multiple professionals to accommodate the thousands of employees that enter and exit this plant every day, costing PPG up to US$40,000 monthly just to manually screen employee temperatures before they gained access via a card-based turnstile system. Management at PPG saw a clear need: integrating automated temperature screening with their access control system would save them hundreds of thousands year over year.

Automated Temperature Screening Protects Staff And Stays Under Budget

PPG reached out to Louisiana Radio Communications (LRC Wireless), a system integrator in the Southeast United States with expertise in chemical plant security. As the plant was already using OnGuard® by LenelS2 for access control, integration of temperature screening with the access control system was a key quality-of-life feature management wanted. Enter Invixium: a premier manufacturer of healthy access solutions and an OAAP partner of LenelS2. LRC Wireless proposed IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit to PPG for its automated functionality, integration with LenelS2 for access control and because rapid automation keeps shift changes fast while saving nearly US$500,000 in staffing costs compared to manual temperature screening solutions.

PPG’s benefits of automating their temperature screening with IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit include:

• Budget Savings: Automating security solutions creates budget savings that can be re-allocated to other department or business needs
• Faster Shift Changes: Automation also keeps shift changes moving faster than they would with manual temperature measurement. A shift change that might take an hour now takes minutes!
• Healthy Access Audit Trail: Temperature screening integrated with access control software like OnGuard allows managers to keep a record of screening events so they know when someone screens with an elevated body temperature – and can then take appropriate preventive actions

“Businesses must accept that the need for healthy access is here to stay,” said Shiraz Kapadia, CEO & President at Invixium. “Leaders like PPG know it is their responsibility to assure staff that everyone around them is healthy and they are not at risk of illness. Our solution achieves this in a way that is fast and accurate while also minimizing security costs by automating the entire process. The results of this installation and cost savings are proof that automated health screening is the future of healthy access.”

“Invixium offers a portfolio of really impressive products. These are exciting, relevant solutions that LRC is proud to offer customers like PPG who need a modern solution to a problem we couldn’t even imagine having two years ago. Working with Invixium, LenelS2 and PPG’s in-house team, we were able to create a system that met every need PPG had,” said Jacob Brown, Sales Executive at LRC Wireless.

For more information, visit:
www.invixium.com
www.lrcwireless.com
www.ppg.com

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The two facilities at Orthoplastics are about 50 kilometers north of Manchester, UK and offer a combined size of over 50,000 square feet of manufacturing, lab and office space. These advanced facilities with state-of-the-art plastics fabrication and laboratory technology allow Orthoplastics to achieve both high quality and high customizability to their customers’ needs.

Touchless Temperature Screening Transforms Employee Time Tracking

Orthoplastics is highly focused on ensuring the health and safety of all staff and visitors at their facilities and has resumed safe operations as of April 2020. As well as stringent social distancing measures and abundant access to hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment at work, contactless temperature screening is a crucial element of Orthoplastics’s effort to protect individuals on site. As a manufacturer of essential medical plastics, Orthoplastics cannot shut down, but must instead take every step necessary to keep employees healthy.

Invixium’s COVID-19 solution was introduced to Orthoplastics by a system integrator customer of Invixium distribution partner CQR Security that has positioned IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit as one of its leading security solutions. Orthoplastics ordered IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit devices to support a staff of 200 spread across its two sites and utilized Invixium’s established Net2 integration via IXM Link to communicate clockins with Net2’s timesheet feature.

In response to CQR’s recommendation of Invixium’s touchless temperature screening and face recognition solution, Managing Director Stuart Adams said, “Security is at the heart of what we do at CQR. Being able to offer our customers the Invixium touchless face recognition and temperature screening solution to ensure the security of their buildings and support the safety of their staff throughout the pandemic is something we are proud of.”

“Here at Orthoplastics, our priority is always our people. We are doing everything we can to make sure that our employees’ health, safety and well-being is at the core of everything we do,” said Mark Allen, Managing Director at Orthoplastics. “Aside from the changes to the workplace and our working practices, we have also implemented a COVID team who regularly meet to review the latest government advice to make sure we are following the most up to date guidelines and whether there are any further actions required to remain COVID secure. We have kept employees up to date and made sure they are involved in any changes to working practices to ensure the safety measures are adhered to and effective.”

“The effect of installing IXM TITAN with Enhancement Kit has been quite positive,” said Mark Hereward, Business Systems Director at Orthoplastics. “When the pandemic began, we needed to pivot very quickly to an appropriate and effective system for protecting staff health throughout the day. Along with making PPE available and enforcing social distancing, temperature screening during shift changes has been a great help for us. The installation of TITAN was very easy to get up and running, and we’re pleased with how Invixium supported our transition to a touchless time tracking system.”

“Invixium has always taken pride in assuring employee safety and security through impeccable biometric products,” says Shiraz Kapadia, CEO & President at Invixium. “Our installation at Orthoplastics highlights this commitment and accentuates how security has evolved to encompass employee health in light of COVID-19. We are very proud that our advancements in biometric solutions have enabled Orthoplastics to offer employees a healthy, safe, secure and productive work environment.”

For more information, visit:
www.invixium.com
www.cqr.co.uk

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Businesses like FHH that have many operating locations require a workforce management solution where data from all facilities is readily available. Invixium’s IXM WEB is a web-based, cloud-ready biometric access control and workforce management software that the TITAN devices installed at FHH’s sites in Jordan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt constantly share data with. This data, including time tracking, is visualized in IXM WEB’s playful interface through interactive dashboards and intuitive reports showing employee data and the overall health of the biometric system.

Automated Biometrics And Software Integration Further Digital Transformation

FHH’s existing ORACLE Fusion time management system created a unique challenge for all stakeholders including Invixium and their partner ElectroSec from an implementation and support perspective to cover all FHH’s operations across the MENA region. For the TITAN installation to be effective, employee clock-ins (i.e. punches) needed to be immediately exported to ORACLE Fusion, where FHH’s Human Resources could manage payroll and employee time. Invixium’s team of experts worked with FHH and ORACLE to bridge IXM WEB with Fusion, allowing TITAN to seamlessly share data with FHH’s existing human capital cloud. After three consecutive pay periods with 100% time accuracy, Invixium and FHH are proud to share that this custom digital transformation implementation was a complete success.

“We had very tight timelines in 2019 to ensure we go live in 2020 for all our Phase 1 Cloud transformation programmes, where the core focus was on Human Resource processes, technology and improvements. Working with Invixium, Oracle, FHH’s technical team, supported by the HR team, we were able to implement a system that is 100% accurate on employee records for Time and Attendance and then integrated it into the Oracle platform. This leaves very little room for fraud and zero human intervention and provides FHH with a foundation for the future for all HR related systems and processes,“ said FHH’s CIO Yahyah Pandor.

“Invixium is very proud of what we accomplished with Fine Hygienic Holding,” says Shiraz Kapadia, President & CEO of Invixium. “Our products are made to be highly customizable, so we accepted this challenge knowing that TITAN and IXM WEB were the right fit for FHH’s unique needs. IXM WEB especially is designed with the end-user in mind; we want our customers to have the freedom to build their system around their business needs. Our engineers worked tirelessly with FHH and ORACLE to make this digital transformation happen, and the results have been incredibly positive.”

For more information, visit:
www.invixium.com
www.electrosec.net

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