In aerospace, defense, and complex manufacturing, accurate time and labor tracking is more than a back office task, it’s a business critical function.

From supporting DCAA audits to managing cost plus contracts, ensuring fair employee compensation, and controlling project budgets, labor data is at the core of compliance, profitability, and operational execution. That’s why organizations operating in high stakes, highly regulated environments turn to AutoTime.

Here’s how AutoTime is purpose built to meet the demands of government contractors, manufacturers, and engineering teams.

Total Compliance Confidence

AutoTime supports full compliance with DCAA and FAR requirements by embedding compliance into the system and not bolting it on after the fact.

Features like real time audit trails, mandatory timecard signoffs, edit tracking, and total time accounting ensure every labor charge is traceable, proportionate, and properly authorized. It can even distinguish between employee and contractor time, helping avoid co-employment risks and fraudulent reporting.

Whether your teams are working on multiple contracts or adjusting labor charges post period, AutoTime keeps you audit ready at all times.

True Labor Cost Visibility

Most time tracking systems stop at attendance. AutoTime goes further by linking employee activity to job costing, contract compliance, and earned value metrics.

It captures both direct and indirect labor with precision, accounts for premium pay, overtime, and compensatory time, and ensures labor rates are accurately reflected across your general ledger, payroll, and ERP systems.

The result? Real time visibility into project spend, accurate billing, and more defensible bids on future contracts.

Designed for Engineering and Professional Labor

Engineering effort is often one of the most expensive and scrutinized parts of government funded programmes. AutoTime allows professional staff to quickly enter time using spreadsheet like interfaces, assign effort to the right projects, and avoid cross charging errors.

Mandatory signoffs, full audit trails, and fine grained access control protect data integrity, while total time accounting ensures exempt employees’ time is properly allocated, even when working unpaid hours beyond the standard week.

Built In Flexibility for Real-World Schedules

Whether your workforce operates on standard 40-hour weeks, 9/80 compressed schedules, or around-the-clock shifts, AutoTime handles it all.

It accommodates extended work time policies, compensatory time banks, and hybrid arrangements providing employees with fair compensation while keeping payroll aligned with federal rules.

For manufacturers managing both hourly and salaried staff, AutoTime applies complex rules seamlessly therefore removing the need for costly workarounds or manual adjustments.

Seamless Integration with Business Systems

AutoTime integrates in real time with ERP, payroll, and manufacturing execution systems, ensuring that the right data flows automatically to the right places and at the right time.

From SAP to iBASEt to legacy MES platforms, AutoTime becomes the central bridge between shop floor activity and enterprise cost control.

Empowering Supervisors and Streamlining Operations

Supervisors can manage exceptions, approve timecards, and respond to compliance flags from a single dashboard. Advanced rule engines automate everything from labor validations and pay calculations to alerts for missing certifications, clock-in issues, or incomplete job data.

Mobile accessibility and user friendly design mean employees spend less time navigating software and more time doing the work that matters all the while reducing error rates and training overheads.

Built for Complex Industries, Proven Across the Sector

AutoTime is trusted by leading aerospace and defense organizations and has been implemented across companies with multi-site, multi-time zone, and multi-ERP environments.

Whether you’re managing a long running maintenance job, supporting a shipbuilding contract, or allocating R&D effort across departments, AutoTime ensures every labor hour is properly recorded, costed, and audit ready.

Precision matters. Compliance matters. And when margins are tight and accountability is high, AutoTime helps you stay in control. To learn how AutoTime can streamline your labor tracking, reduce audit risk, and support complex manufacturing and engineering operations, get in touch with our team today.