“Debrich Joinery manufacture complete residential joinery solution including kitchens, vanities, bedroom cabinets, wardrobe units, vanities, entertainment units, outdoor kitchens, cellars, etc. We are based in Sydney, NSW, Australia. We have been in business 27 years and employ 27 staff and we have been using Empower Software for 7 years. Prior to Empower we used “Cheat sheets” my workshop staff at the end of the day had to remember and record manually all the jobs they worked on. They also had to remember and record (and in many cases guessed) the start and finish time of each job therefore the time they spent on each job was distorted. On Empower Software we track our 3 teams of staff including all our workshop staff, our design staff and our installation staff off site Job times reported down to task level is key. Our Job stages which we have times on every Job are 1) Design 2) Machine 3) Assemble and 4) Install I estimate our jobs are completed in 15% less labour time overall therefore 15% less labour cost on our jobs Four ingredients of high quality information from Empower Software 1) real time reporting 2) accurate to the minute times 3) Job times down to task level and 4) reporting individual staff involved in each task on the Job and their actual times involved. With this high quality information in most cases we can fairly and accurately pin point issues and discuss the issues openly and positively. Anyone is welcome to phone me to discuss this case study” Richard Curely Managing Director Debrich Joinery

We have achieved a 20% increase in our factory productivity using the Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software App Key Points we have found using the Empower Workshop Productivity & Scheduling Software App: 1. It took us a few years to embrace the system and in the first few years just used it as a tool to replace manual job sheets without analysing the information it offered. During this time we still saw noticeable improvements in the time taken by staff solely because they could now see what time was allowed against what they were taking. 2. Over the last few years we have been taking the info and analysing downtime and rework and this is where a largest increase in productivity has come from. 3. Being able to pinpoint areas where a certain staff member might be struggling is invaluable. It gives us the opportunity to work with that staff member to improve their performance or change systems to improve their productivity. 4. You need your staff to fully commit to the system for it to work properly 5. Its definitely worth contracting David Lawrence [Production Advisor] to help set the system up for you and then again to review how its working. We still have significant work to do with our system as there are still many areas where we are not fully utilising the systems and reports 6. I have no regrets in purchasing Empower but do regret not fully committing to it soon enough to fully benefit from the information produced. I was and still am guilty of not nominating one person to look after Empower and produce the weekly reports for my managers to analyse and discuss with the staff

“Transport Engineers Otago are engineers, we are Truck Body Builders, including chassis modifications and hydraulics. We have been in business for 20+ years and employ 10 engineers on the workshop floor We have achieved an estimated 20% reduction in time on jobs overall Key Points we have found Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling Software: 1 Empower is a great tool 2 Work shop staff ease of use, and flexible 3 Management ease of use, and flexible 4 I break trucks into average of 30 Tasks. Empowers accurate actual times to each Task makes for constructive discussions with work shop staff about times achieved and also management about times achieved 5 I am a big believer of work shop staff and job times transparency. Empower reports time in real time and accurate to the minute which is very powerful 6 It took me about a month to learn and use Empower well 7 In summary Empower is an amazing tool that makes my life easier and allows me to do a better job as production manager

MWF are commercial joiners with over 30 staff and we have been in business for 20 years. We have been using the Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling App for 14 years to date. Within the first 2 years of rolling out Empower we had a 30% increase in factory productivity. In summary Empower has been very good for us and we would not consider manufacturing without it. We recommend it to every manufacturer we talk to about factory productivity and profitability.

Active VMA are an Engineer based in Rotorua, New Zealand who manufacture truck bodies for the roading infrastructure industry and modification of excavators for the forestry industry are our core business, we employ 60 staff we have been in business 24 years and have been using Empower since 2014 Overall, I estimate we have reduced our time on jobs by at least 20% on average. What I like about the Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling Software App: 1. Empower provides workshop staff with clarify of jobs and their associated tasks, budgeted job hours and actual job hours. There is no opportunity for any grey area and therefore no opportunity for hiding time taken to perform tasks 2. Workshop staff see their budgeted time allowed and certainly focus on achieving that job time. Additionally, there is the element of competition between workshop staff as to who are consistently achieving their job times 3. Reporting is real time from workshop floor 4. Reporting of times is accurate 5. Reporting being real time and accurate means workshop staff are focused on job times and management have confidence in the data to analyse and make good business decisions 6. All Downtime and Rework is accurately reported so workshop supervisors explain all variations If I can be of any help, please feel is welcome to phone me to discuss Empower” Greg Smith, Operations and Finance Manager, Active VMA, Phone: 027 271 8080

We are a Kitchen Manufacturer in Matakana, New Zealand with 13 staff and been using Empower Software for 4 years to date. Prior to Empower Software we used Manual time sheets where our workshop staff tried to remember at the end of the day the jobs they worked on and the start and finish times therefore duration times on each job. These manual sheets are more accurately known as “Lie sheets”. Key Points we have found Empower Workshop Productivity and Scheduling Software App: 1 Job time reporting is a lot more accurate and in real time from workshop floor 2 Easy to discuss with workshop staff about job times and staff performance because times reported are both accurate and real time 3 Easy to discuss with management and administration staff about job times and performance because times reported are both accurate and real time 4 I view Empower screens throughout the day in real time to see: • which staff are working and which staff are not • current job status (this saves me leaving my desk for approximate 10 minute walk to the workshop to sight each time) 5 I run Empower reports to back cost jobs accurately to 1) improve our quoting accuracy and 2) address with production management job times that significantly exceed budget