Case Study: Afton Manufacturing achieves 7,280 labor hours saved and $6,000 in annual cost savings with Wasp Barcode Technologies

Accurately tracking employee time drives big cost savings

Afton Manufacturing is a family‑owned machine shop in Afton, Oklahoma with 14 employees that relied on a mechanical punch clock. Scheduled 10‑minute breaks were routinely stretched, timecards were manually totaled (creating errors and extra work), and the owner was losing productivity and money from unpaid overtime and “buddy punching.”

The company implemented WaspTime with RFID cards so workers simply wave to clock in/out, and it shifted from fixed breaks to flexible, self‑managed breaks (with a small wage adjustment). The system eliminated buddy punching, boosted on‑the‑job productivity, and delivered measurable savings — about $6,000 in the first year, roughly 7,280 hours reclaimed annually per the study, and a two‑month payback.

Afton Manufacturing

Gene Schmeling

Owner