Steel Fabrication System Integration Tekla PowerFab

How a Bridge Fabricator Eliminated Manual Time Entry With an Automated Paycor-to-PowerFab Integration

LTC built a custom .NET integration that automatically synchronizes time entry data for 50 production employees daily, giving management real insight into labor costs for the first time.

50+
Employees synced daily
100%
Data consistency, no missed uploads
Real-Time
Project cost visibility in PowerFab
The Challenge

Time Data Trapped Between Two Systems

This bridge fabrication company's employees already clocked in through Paycor, but getting that time data into PowerFab for project cost analysis required manual intervention every single day, and it didn't happen consistently, so the data was never fully trusted.

Daily manual extraction, transformation, and loading of time data consuming valuable staff time
Risk of human error in data translation and entry
Inconsistent data delivery when staff forgot or were unavailable
No automated way to compare project actuals vs. budgets in PowerFab
The Solution

A Daily Automated .NET Integration

LTC developed a custom .NET integration that automatically synchronizes time entry data between Paycor and PowerFab, running daily without human intervention, and designed to fit the client's existing on-premises Windows environment.

.NET Console Application
Running on the client's existing Windows infrastructure
Automated Daily Sync
Runs via Windows scheduled tasks, no manual step required
Intelligent Data Mapping
Paycor job codes mapped to PowerFab's Station/Task/Sequence structure
Error Handling & Logging
Automatic email alerts, plus database tracking so nothing is missed or duplicated

Challenges overcome: working within both systems' API limitations, aligning PowerFab's Production Control and Project Management modules which handle labor data differently, and standardizing time tracking and labor codes that had drifted across the shop floor.

The Results

Real Labor Cost Visibility, Every Day

The automated integration gave management the labor cost insight they'd never reliably had, helping them price and manage work more effectively.

  50+ employees having their time automatically synchronized daily
  100% data consistency, no more missed or forgotten uploads
  Real-time project cost visibility and accurate actuals-vs-budget reporting in PowerFab
  Staff freed to focus on analysis instead of data entry, with standardized time tracking across the shop
Client
Bridge Fabricator
Industry
Steel Fabrication
Solution
Custom .NET Paycor-to-PowerFab Integration
Technology
.NET, Paycor API, Tekla PowerFab Open API
Key Result
50+ employees synced daily, 100% data consistency
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Steel Fabrication System Integration Tekla PowerFab

How a Bridge Fabricator Eliminated Manual Time Entry With an Automated Paycor-to-PowerFab Integration

LTC built a custom .NET integration that automatically synchronizes time entry data for 50 production employees daily, giving management real insight into labor costs for the first time.

50+
Employees synced daily
100%
Data consistency, no missed uploads
Real-Time
Project cost visibility in PowerFab
The Challenge

Time Data Trapped Between Two Systems

This bridge fabrication company's employees already clocked in through Paycor, but getting that time data into PowerFab for project cost analysis required manual intervention every single day, and it didn't happen consistently, so the data was never fully trusted.

Daily manual extraction, transformation, and loading of time data consuming valuable staff time
Risk of human error in data translation and entry
Inconsistent data delivery when staff forgot or were unavailable
No automated way to compare project actuals vs. budgets in PowerFab
The Solution

A Daily Automated .NET Integration

LTC developed a custom .NET integration that automatically synchronizes time entry data between Paycor and PowerFab, running daily without human intervention, and designed to fit the client's existing on-premises Windows environment.

.NET Console Application
Running on the client's existing Windows infrastructure
Automated Daily Sync
Runs via Windows scheduled tasks, no manual step required
Intelligent Data Mapping
Paycor job codes mapped to PowerFab's Station/Task/Sequence structure
Error Handling & Logging
Automatic email alerts, plus database tracking so nothing is missed or duplicated

Challenges overcome: working within both systems' API limitations, aligning PowerFab's Production Control and Project Management modules which handle labor data differently, and standardizing time tracking and labor codes that had drifted across the shop floor.

The Results

Real Labor Cost Visibility, Every Day

The automated integration gave management the labor cost insight they'd never reliably had, helping them price and manage work more effectively.

  50+ employees having their time automatically synchronized daily
  100% data consistency, no more missed or forgotten uploads
  Real-time project cost visibility and accurate actuals-vs-budget reporting in PowerFab
  Staff freed to focus on analysis instead of data entry, with standardized time tracking across the shop
Client
Bridge Fabricator
Industry
Steel Fabrication
Solution
Custom .NET Paycor-to-PowerFab Integration
Technology
.NET, Paycor API, Tekla PowerFab Open API
Key Result
50+ employees synced daily, 100% data consistency
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