About Us
Technology leader, solution provider and quality manufacturer
About Us
Technology leader, solution provider and quality manufacturer
Cummins Allison is a global leader in providing best-in-class solutions that set worldwide standards for accuracy, dependability and ease-of-use. Our products resolve currency and image-processing challenges with unequaled speed and precision – reducing transaction times and maximizing productivity.
Innovation Drives Our Thinking
Greater efficiencies for better performance
Cummins Allison is a global leader in providing best-in-class solutions that set worldwide standards for accuracy, dependability and ease-of-use. Our products resolve currency and image-processing challenges with unequaled speed and precision – reducing transaction times and maximizing productivity.
New products that revolutionize the way financial documents, coin and currency are handled have led us to expand our offerings – including a complete line of full-function ATMs, and application-specific software solutions.
Customers in financial, cash-in-transit, gaming, retail, law enforcement and other organizations rely on our solutions to help them work more efficiently, eliminate errors and spend less time on repetitive tasks.
Our portfolio includes:
Our commitment to best-in-class performance that takes cost out of operations inspires trust in our users – 97% of our customers would recommend our products and services.
By controlling the design, manufacture, and distribution of our products, we assure stability and sustain our growth. But more than a manufacturer, we are an end-to-end solution provider, offering the fastest, most accurate hardware and software solutions in the industry to make your job easier. Searching out new technologies that drive process improvement, we are continually expanding our portfolio to give our customers new options for greater efficiency.
Service is a hallmark of our business, with coverage and performance that is unmatched in the industry for most of our portfolio. Our proactive focus leverages deep technical expertise to serve you better, preserving the value of your investment today and in the years to come. Your equipment gets the attention it needs on the first call, so you are up and running sooner. Our technicians carry parts in their vehicles and we stock parts at all local branches. Technicians also receive frequent, rigorous training to keep their skills up-to-date.
Service highlights:
Research and development are key to innovation. Cummins Allison is privately held, with a heritage of leadership in technology and product innovation since 1887. The company invests twice the industry average in R&D. This ensures we can continue to deliver relevant technological advancements to our customers – solutions they want, that make their lives easier.
Innovation also can't happen without the right people. We choose our teams carefully and cultivate an environment that encourages and supports creativity. Team members derive satisfaction from the knowledge that today's challenges for them become tomorrow's successes for our customers.
From its inception, Cummins Allison has been a technology leader and innovator in the document-processing and money-handling industries. We hold more than 350 patents, and have many more in the pipeline. Cummins Allison is the only company that has been recognized multiple times by Ocean Toma and Crain's Chicago Business as one of the top three companies in Illinois for patent quality.
Other recent awards have included:
Cummins Allison headquarters are located on a 20-acre campus near Chicago, IL. Engineering, manufacturing, domestic sales management, international sales management, worldwide service, and administrative organizations operate here. In addition, we have engineering R&D centers near San Diego, CA and Philadelphia, PA.
Our extensive sales and service network includes 43 U.S. branch offices, as well as wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France and Australia. Cummins Allison is represented in more than 70 countries around the world.
Cummins Allison is a professionally challenging environment in which to hone your craft and grow into your potential. Our vertically-integrated manufacturing model encompasses design, engineering, precision machining, assembly, testing and QA/QC to ensure the quality, accuracy, consistency and reliability of all products.
Bringing talented, motivated, highly-skilled individuals to our organization – and keeping them here – is both a priority and a strategic necessity. The wealth we gain in combined knowledge and experience enables us to develop solutions that expand, refine, and improve upon current best practices: new technologies that help businesses evolve and compete.
Awards and Honors
Employee Productivity and Efficiency
Award Winner
Best Equipment Solution
Top 75 Finalist
Milestones
Cummins Allison is a technology leader and innovator, bringing solutions to market that make people and processes more efficient and businesses more productive. Below are a few highlights from our legacy of contributions to the advancement of the industry.
Advanced design and innovative thinking bring greater productivity and value to vault processing. JetScan MPX 8200
multi-pocket cash sorter boasts 30% more throughput and a lower total cost of ownership.
Following on our ATM introduction, we released our managed services offering, JetLink ATM remote management solution.
Cummins Allison enters the automated teller machine (ATM) market with a wide range of models from dispense only to full function automated deposit.
Money Machine 2 is the world’s most powerful self-service coin counter with the industry’s highest bin and sorted bag capacities. The procurement model that includes ownership, leasing, rental or placement is also unprecedented in this market.
JetScan i400 is the fastest, smallest, most flexible multi-pocket currency scanner and sorter available. The i400 processes 1,200 documents per minute – including mixed cash and casino tickets. The i400 also captures images of cash or tickets with no discernible reduction in speed, and optionally processes multiple country currency.
JetScan iFX i200 is similar in features to the i100, but with two-pockets, for easier off-sorting.
Award-winning JetScan iFX i100 desktop scanners hits the market, processing currency at 1,600 notes per minute. The i100 scanners capture serial number and casino ticket images at 1,200 items per minute and capture check images at 400 items per minute.
Introducing Money Machine – the fastest, most accurate self-service coin counter, processing up to 4,100 coins per minute.
A powerful addition to the Cummins Allison line, JetScan MPS multi-pocket currency sorter with continuous batch processing is launched. A boon for vaults and casinos, the high-speed, high-performance system lets operators manage tickets and cash counting and sorting in a single pass.
Joining original JetScan, Universal JetScan can process multiple country currencies on one machine, handling foreign currencies at the same blazingly fast speeds as USD.
JetScan identifies counterfeit “super notes” a type of counterfeit that was first discovered in 1990. Super notes are produced using the same type of printing presses used by the government (U.S.). A super note can be forensically tied back to the first of its kind, known as Parent Note (PN) 14342.
The JetScan currency scanner is released: a desktop device that counts and denominates 1,000 mixed banknotes (bills) per minute.
Many of the largest financial institutions are Cummins Allison customers when the JetSort coin sorter makes its debut. JetSort counts and denominates coins at the almost inconceivable speed of up to 10,000 per minute.
New technologies and far greater efficiencies are developed for financial institutions, with the advent of flexible, mini-computer-based check processing systems that reduce the load on mainframe processors.
Business machines are evolving to include sound-proof electric check cancelers and automatic check cancelers, as well as automatic check printers.
Cummins begins producing dating cancelers and devices that endorse and sign checks.
The newly formed company, B F Cummins, secures the patent to manufacture the “perforator:” a device that marks documents using independently movable punches.
Environmental awareness
ENERGY STAR partners and more
While embracing the larger objective of protecting the environment globally, Cummins Allison works proactively to minimize the environmental impact of our activities locally. This includes:
Cummins Allison is proud to be part of the family of businesses who have joined with ENERGY STAR, to continually improve our management of energy resources, lowering operating costs and reducing related forms of pollution.
EPA's ENERGY STAR partnership offers a proven energy management strategy that helps measure current energy performance: setting goals, tracking savings and rewarding improvements. EPA's energy performance rating system is used for more than 62,000 buildings across the country. EPA recognizes top performing buildings with the ENERGY STAR.
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices. Additional information is available at the ENERGY STAR website: www.energystar.gov.
Corporate Responsibility
Ethical and responsible manufacturing
Although slavery was officially abolished all over the world since 1980, the slave trade is still present on every continent. Refusing to be an accessory to any form of slavery or human trafficking and in accordance with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, Cummins Allison is adopting a zero tolerance approach towards slavery and human trafficking in its supply chains:
Cummins Allison archives the statements on human trafficking / slavery it receives from its suppliers for new components used in its products.
Cummins Allison has not identified significant risks with direct suppliers that would require the conduct of supplier audits.
For any component used in the manufacture of its products, Cummins Allison systematically asks its suppliers to provide a statement of compliance to applicable slavery and human trafficking laws.
Each Cummins Allison employee and consultant agrees to fulfill their assigned tasks in accordance with applicable laws and the principle of respecting human rights. In the event Cummins Allison becomes aware of a violation, management will take the appropriate measures, which can extend to the dismissal of the employee.
Cummins Allison informs and trains those employees and managers that have a direct role in supply chain management. The objective is to develop awareness and understanding of the issues of human trafficking and slavery in supply chains and to ensure that verification of the supply chains is done in accordance with Cummins Allison's procedures.
In July 2010, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law, also known as the Dodd-Frank Act (the "Act"). Although the focus of the Act is financial market regulatory reforms, it also imposes requirements relating to "Conflict Minerals". Specifically, section 1502 of the Act imposes Security and Exchange Commission ("SEC") reporting requirements upon publicly-traded companies whose products contain metals derived from minerals defined as "Conflict Minerals". "Conflict Minerals" refers to specific mineral ores and their derivatives (gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten) which originate from Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC") or specified adjoining countries.
The new reporting requirements reflect Congressional concern that revenues obtained from mining and transport of "Conflict Minerals" finance the ongoing conflict in the DRC and surrounding countries and the resulting humanitarian crisis.
Cummins Allison, as a privately held corporation, is not subject to the Conflict Minerals reporting requirements; however, as a supplier to publicly-traded companies, we are committed to helping our customers comply with their reporting requirements. In addition, Cummins Allison is fully supportive of global industry efforts to ensure responsible manufacturing processes with transparent sourcing in full accordance with the law.
The Act requires publicly-traded companies to report annually to the SEC on (a) their worldwide use of "Conflict Minerals" in products they manufacture or contract to manufacture, and (b) the cooperation of their supply chains in identifying the use of "Conflict Minerals"; identifying the country of origin for any tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold; and determining whether "Conflict Minerals" from the DRC region are "conflict free" (that is, they do not directly or indirectly finance armed groups through mining or mineral trading in the DRC Region).
Supplier cooperation will be needed to get information from smelters/refiners (the choke points in identifying the source of the minerals) in their supply chain as to whether products contain "Conflict Minerals" that originate in the DRC or adjacent countries. Note that these requirements will apply equally to U.S. and non-U.S. suppliers.
Annual submissions to the SEC will under certain circumstances require an independent, third-party audit, and therefore proper documentation of information related to your supply chain is critical.
Just as Cummins Allison is doing, it is important that our suppliers examine their supply chain and consult with their suppliers to verify that no "Conflict Minerals" are included in any of their products. Working together is the only approach that will enable everyone subject to these requirements to accomplish this task.