Introduction
Several different types of manufacturers exist across numerous industries, utilizing a wide variety of materials. They typically have a high percentage of deskless, frontline workers, and that brings numerous unique challenges to safety and security, human capital management, administration, and efficiency. In addition, manufacturers have demanding vendor and solution considerations, prioritizing product value, the vendor’s reputation, and lead time from consideration to implementation. Also, their window for purchasing and implementing solutions is dictated by the busy periods in their specific industry. OLOID solutions are uniquely positioned to address these challenges, and OLOID has worked with numerous manufacturers to competently address each of their special considerations.
Defining Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial manufacturing involves the production and assembly of discrete, durable goods. Key industries include aerospace, automotive, machinery, and medical. Materials processed are predominantly metal, plastic, fiber-reinforced composites, and coatings.
Types of Manufacturing Facilities:
- Contract Manufacturer: make components for other companies’ products
- OEM: manufacture, assemble, and market own products
- Vendor/Supplier: sell products, applications, and/or materials used in the manufacturing process
- Captive Manufacturer: make components for own company’s products
- Other
Challenges of Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturing environments are predominantly composed of deskless, frontline workers, and are concerned with physical and cybersecurity, employee and plant safety, and staff, operational, and administrative efficiency.
Authentication & Access Control: Quickly and accurately identifying employees, granting them access to the facility and their authorized work areas, without error and delays caused by passwords or queueing up at manual checkpoints during shift changes, adds up to substantial improvement in productivity, cost savings, and profitability.
Employee Time Tracking: Keeping precise track of deskless workers’ hours is essential for accurate payroll, and stopping buddy clocking is critical in preventing time theft.
Administering Rules for Security, Safety, and Business Operations: Simplifying and automating administrative systems allows less staff to do more work faster, more efficiently, and more cost-effectively, prioritizing safety, security, and productivity over bureaucracy.
Manufacturing Vendor/Solution Considerations
Manufacturers prioritize the value of solutions based on the product quality, price, and after-sale service. They also heavily consider the reputation of the vendor, and how fast a solution can be evaluated, purchased, and fully successfully implemented. Their window for purchasing and implementing solutions is dictated by the busy periods in their specific industry, with an emphasis on avoiding any impact on the production or delivery of finished goods, and the accompanying reduction in profitability.
OLOID Solutions
OLOID provides end-to-end safety & security solutions for the deskless worker that fully integrate with access control points and time clocks, allowing manufacturers to modernize factories, warehouses, and industrial manufacturing sites, utilizing next-gen identity infrastructure for the entire day-in-the-life of deskless workers.
Passwordless Authentication
OLOID Passwordless Authentication ditches the traditional username and password combo for a more secure and convenient login experience. Instead, it relies on factors such as facial recognition, QR Codes, NFC, Palm recognition, and NFC, to authenticate the end-user.
- Centralized physical identity: OLOID integrates with IT and operational systems such as access control systems as a centralized single sign-on for your physical infrastructure.
- Conditional access & authorization: OLOID integrates with employee systems of record such as certification, HRIS, and health & safety to implement and automate dynamic rules.
- Enhance worker productivity: Eliminate long lines during shift change or lunch breaks to boost productivity. Time clocking, access, and safety checks are all done in less than 1 sec.
- Eliminate badges, access codes & keys: OLOID’s secure facial authentication eliminates buddy clocking and unauthorized access. Reduce the cost of issuing traditional badges, fraudulent payroll costs & theft.
- Automate health & safety procedures: Keep the work site safe with OLOID’s vaccination status check and wellness attestation, by sending SMS email alerts for any exceptions or risk events.
- Integrate with turnstiles, door locks & IO: OLOID integrates with existing doorways, turnstiles, and elevators, and enables conditional access to IoT devices based on your organization-specific business rules.
Time Clock
OLOID Time Clock is a contactless time clock system that uses facial recognition, QR codes, access cards, and NFC for employee authentication. It integrates with existing time and attendance systems, is easy to set up, and reduces onboarding time for new employees.
- Contactless Time Clocking: OLOID’s Facial Authentication-based time and attendance clocking is touchless, accurate, easy to use, and does not require the employees to touch communal surfaces. It is a downloadable software application that runs on off-the-shelf tablets. OLOID seamlessly integrates with existing time and attendance modules in leading workforce management systems.
- Eliminate buddy clocking: Help your HR team eliminate payroll fraud from buddy swiping and tailgating. OLOID’s safe and secure biometric clocking accurately identifies employees using facial biometrics and alerts managers instantly. Save anywhere from 2-5% in inaccurate payroll by eliminating instances of employees sharing badges or pin codes for clocking in one another.
- Integrate wellness checks: Eliminate manual checks for administering health questionnaires and integrate them with the clocking process. Wellness checks can be combined with vaccination records or test results. OLOID helps employers comply with employee safety guidelines and improves employee well-being.
- Reduce waiting times: Reduce the cycle time for clocking in and clocking out each shift. OLOID identifies employees as they approach the tablet and clocks them in at a much faster rate compared to traditional fingerprint, badge, and PIN entry systems. Save on paid wait time, reduce congregation, and improve employee experience.
OLOID Workflows
OLOID Workflows is a visual workflow builder that allows users to automate day-to-day security, safety, and business operations. It uses a no-code/low-code rule engine to allow users to drag and drop business rules. This empowers HR, IT, Compliance & Security teams to easily and quickly automate routine processes without writing a single line of code. Workflows can be edited and enhanced on an ongoing basis.
Visual Workflow Automation with a No-Code/Low-Code Rule Engine
Your workplace, your rules. Drag-and-drop business rules for automating day-to-day security, safety, and business operations.
Automate your Physical Access Control System (PACS) with OLOID’s Rule Engine
In the cloud or on-premise, integrates with:
- ID and HR systems by Workday and Okta
- Security Systems by Honeywell and LENEL-S2
- IT and OT systems by ServiceNow
- Building systems by Envoy
- Compliance systems for Training and Safety
- Data Systems by Tableau
Get 10x the value from your existing PACS
- Modern Access Management
- Dynamic controls
- Frictionless badge provisioning
- Stronger Security
- Real-time threat alerts
- Anomaly detection intelligence
- Automated Compliance
- Validity checks
- Vaccination checks
- Audit trails
- Efficient Building Operations
- Occupancy tracking
- Reservation checks
- Facilities usage data
Easy Administration
Use our browser-based editor to define and configure rules for multiple endpoints. Create trigger events at your workplace by connecting multiple hardware components, APIs, and other services. Enjoy the flexibility of managing from anywhere in the world.
- No-code, visual drag-and-drop rule engine
- Low-code scripting available on demand
- Automate complex workflows using conditional logic
- Allows for multiple steps and ‘if-this-then-that’ conditions
- Edit and enhance your workflows on an ongoing basis
Dynamic Integrations
Connect and move operational data around events, usage, compliance, and metrics across your systems. We ensure that your APIs are never broken.
- Support a wide range of integrations and use cases
- Automatically move identity & attribute data across systems
- Effortless data sync in real-time, on schedule, or by batch
- Unified data architecture removes duplication & redundancy
- Deploy on cloud or on-premises
Purpose-Built Templates
Empower your HR, IT, Compliance & Security teams to easily and quickly automate routine processes without writing a single line of code. Get started with a pre-built template from our rich library of templates and edit it to fit your own needs.
- Integrate faster with our pre-built templates
- Configure in accordance with your business need
- Create your own templates for repeated use
- Ease ongoing maintenance
Cloud Key
Empower your legacy physical access control system (PACS) with the power of mobile and cloud using the OLOID Cloud Key. A retrofit solution that enables mobile access and network unlock with legacy readers and physical access control systems:
- Does not need any new hardware at the door or closet to be added
- No changes are required to the existing card reader system
- Provides mobile access to any door connected to an API-friendly PACS
- Does not require new servers or special network access
- Provides cloud unlock for legacy card systems
How OLOID Addresses Manufacturing Vendor/Solution Considerations
OLOID solutions provide unparalleled value through our repeatedly client-tested quality, affordable price, and customer service our clients love. OLOID has an outstanding company reputation as evidenced in our customer testimonials, and a short lead-time to implement because our solutions are cloud-based, scalable, automated, and interoperable, using open API architecture that offers limitless integration capabilities.
OLOID Privacy Promise
OLOID recognizes that privacy and data protection continue to be concerns amongst manufacturers. For several years OLOID has had a comprehensive Privacy Policy designed to respect visitors to our website and protect their personal data and privacy. OLOID strives to gain the confidence and trust of manufacturers who are interested in learning more about the company and our solutions.
Conclusion
Manufacturers face many unique challenges due to their large, deskless, frontline workforce, including security, safety, time tracking, and administration, as well as specific preferences for solutions and vendors, and OLOID provides ideal, tailor-made solutions as a vendor with plenty of experience designing solutions for and working with manufacturing clients.
If your organization is facing challenges with authentication, access control, and time tracking of your deskless, frontline workforce, and automating workflow to administer it all, and you’d like to explore how OLOID’s facial recognition-based, passwordless authentication solutions can benefit your organization, look at our website and Contact Us to speak with a specialist about how, like Tyson Foods and many other organizations across diverse industries, we can help you.
