Cummins Allison, a CPI brand, 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.

Who We Are

Cummins Allison, a CPI brand, 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.

Customers in financial, cash-in-transit, gaming, retail, vending, 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:

• Currency counting and imaging
• Coin counting and sorting
• Check imaging and processing
• Casino ticket processing
• Full-function ATMs
• Software solutions for process improvement
• Retail payment solutions

Innovating to bring new solutions forward

We are more than a manufacturer. Controlling the design, manufacture, and distribution of our products helps assure that we can provide the fastest, most accurate hardware and software solutions in the industry to make your job easier.

We constantly monitor trends in our markets to ensure all products meet your needs, and to give our customers new options for greater efficiency. Our commitment to best-in-class performance takes cost out of operations and inspires trust in our users – 97% of our customers would recommend our products and services.

Dedicated customer-first approach

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.

We pride ourselves on our people and our customer-centric focus. 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:

• 43 local offices with parts and service
• More than 480 skilled local professionals, nationwide
• More than 4,500 hours of service training, annually
• Response times within 8 business hours, on average
• Service level agreements available for many products

The keys to innovation

Research and development are key to innovation. Cummins Allison has a heritage of leadership in technology and product innovation dating back to 1887. From its inception, the brand has been a technology leader and innovator in the document-processing and money-handling industries.

Historically investing twice the industry average in R&D, we are committed to delivering relevant technological advancements to our customers – solutions they want, that make their lives easier. We hold more than 350 patents,with many more in the pipeline. Cummins Allison has been recognized multiple times by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the top five organizations in Illinois for patent quality.

Committed to excellence

Other recent awards have included:

• Chicago Innovation Awards winner
• IPLAC Creator of the Year (2014)
• Casino Enterprise Management HOT Award
• BankNews Innovative Solutions Award

Where we are

One of seven brands of Crane Payment Innovations (CPI), Cummins Allison is located on a 20-acre campus near Chicago, IL. Two engineering R&D centers have their operations near San Diego, CA, and Philadelphia, PA.

Our extensive sales and service network includes 43 U.S. branch offices, as well as subsidiaries in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France and Australia. The Cummins Allison brand is represented in more than 70 countries around the world.

Work for Cummins Allison

Innovation can't happen without the right people. We recruit talented individuals and train them within a culture that calls for performance with trust and respect. Our associates are empowered to promote new ideas and apply innovation to our world of money processing and payment solutions. Our teams derive satisfaction from overcoming customer challenges and the knowledge that their success ensures our success.

At Cummins Allison you can 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 a diversity of 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.

Proud to be part of Crane Payment Innovations (CPI)

CPI is a global leader for currency validation in the unattended retail space, processing over four billion transactions per week. Serving the vending, banking, gaming, retail, transportation, and kiosk markets in more than 100 countries, CPI represents one of the world’s largest installed bases of payment systems. For more than 80 years, CPI has been a trusted partner to industry leaders worldwide.

From coin and note processing to innovative cashless systems and asset management software, CPI offers an unprecedented range of resources to help global customers become more progressive, efficient and profitable. CPI is part of Crane Co., a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products with a substantial presence in four business segments.

Cummins Allison, a CPI brand, 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.

Committed to safe, earth-friendly operations

While embracing the larger objective of protecting the environment globally, Cummins Allison, a CPI brand, works proactively to minimize the environmental impact of our activities locally. This includes:

• Compliance with regulations guiding environmental safety and observing in-house standards that prevent pollution.
• Beyond simply complying with all laws related to environmental issues, we are dedicated to minimizing occupational health and safety risks to all our employees by utilizing safe technologies, training programs, effective risk management practices and sound science to define and efficiently manage and reduce all significant environmental risks.
• Striving to minimize adverse environmental impact through waste reduction, recycling and responsible waste disposal.
• Adopting earth-friendly technologies and purchasing resources and materials whenever possible to further minimize our environmental impact.
• Educating our employees to to foster awareness so that they can recognize and address environmental concerns – enabling us to identify additional ways to protect our planet proactively while pursuing our business goals and strategy.
• Disclosing environmental information in partnership with our local communities to support conservation initiatives.

ENERGY STAR Partners in protecting the environment

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

Cummins Allison is a CPI brand. CPI leads Payment & Merchandising Systems, a business segment of Crane Co., a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products.

Cummins Allison embraces the Crane and CPI concept of corporate citizenship and sustainability – where companies take responsibility not only for profits, but also for the impact their activities have on a variety of stakeholders. The ethical principles espoused by Crane’s founder, R.T. Crane, included his strong resolve to practice honesty and fairness in dealings with customers, associates, and even competitors.

Philanthropy, sustainability and equality are central and prevailing themes of Crane corporate ethics.

Philanthropy

Philanthropic endeavors, including direct assistance to underserved populations in the communities where Crane operates and providing assistance to former associates and their families, are fundamental to the Company philosophy. Contributions to charitable organizations and paid support for associate volunteerism are important ways that Crane promotes its closely held corporate values and the concept of giving back.

Volunteer hours are expected to exceed 10,000 in 2020. The Company also provides assistance for natural disaster relief organizations with a focus on regions where the company has a presence.

Sustainability

Cummins Allison believes with CPI and Crane Co. that corporate responsibility extends to the conservation of finite resources and that the risks that exist around environmental sustainability extend far beyond the Company’s operations.

We employ earth-friendly technologies and purchasing resources and materials whenever possible to minimize our environmental impact. Cummins Allison is also 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.

Equality

CPI brands promote a diverse workforce and recognize that a diversity of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds ultimately bring better leadership, ideas, and stakeholder considerations to enhance growth in all respects. We seek a workforce that reflects the communities in which we operate and one that is as diverse as our businesses.

Leveraging a structured and disciplined Intellectual Capital (IC) process, our associates can develop personally and professionally throughout their career. This substantially increases their opportunities for advancement while improving their job satisfaction and overall engagement.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Cummins Allison is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Company to recruit, hire, develop and promote qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity, physical or mental disability, military status, veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), or any other characteristics protected by law in all aspects of the employment process and relationship. We provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.

Human Rights Policy

In addition to the above, Cummins Allison is committed to upholding and promoting fundamental human rights. We believe that all of our associates, suppliers and customers should be treated with dignity, fairness and respect. We have no tolerance for human rights abuses in our supply chain or anywhere else in our organization. Our Supplier Code of Conduct reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure our expectation regarding intolerance for slavery and human trafficking is clearly communicated to our supply chain partners.

This means that Cummins Allison:

• Does not use or condone the use of slave labor or human trafficking
• Aims to identify and assess potential risks in our business and supply chains
• Denounces any degrading treatment of individuals or unsafe working conditions
• Supports our products being free of conflict minerals
• Provides training to our associates, especially those in our supply chain teams, to ensure that we regularly assess the risks of our extended supply chain