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Ceequel® Software Access Control vs Panel Box Systems

Our access control system has drastically changed the face of access control for many businesses. Classic site based systems rely on physical wiring and multiple site control boxes in order to manage who goes where. Our system works on both Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN) and communicates via TCIP/IP meaning companies are able to control access to all of their sites from one central station.

Ceequel® software-based access control has changed the face of access control. The software operates on both Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN), and communicates via TCIP/IP so companies are able to control access to all their sites from one central station.

Contrast this with classic site-based central panel systems that need multiple electric panel boxes, power supplies, and site controllers to control specific clusters of doors. Oh, yes, and there’s also the host PC, RS485 cables to provide communication to each panel box, and feet upon feet of wiring between the panels and door controllers. Central panel installation calls for expensive electricians, and at the end of the day all it provides is limited access control to employees using proximity cards.

Ceequel® Access Control, on the other hand, is one-size-fits-all, supporting not only proximity cards, but also key fobs, barcodes, company-designed ID cards, and even fingerprint biometrics. It supplies each access point with a list of authorised employees and detailed information as to exactly who is allowed access and when. That one-size-fits-all feature extends to Ceequel®’s ability to control not only door locks but turnstiles, barriers, and fast lane systems.

Since all Ceequel® modules are based on Microsoft SQL technology, they can run seamlessly on existing systems and infrastructures; since the access control module uses the same hardware and ID cards as the Ceequel® Time and Attendance module, the two can be fully integrated. In addition, whatever data is collected by the Access Control module can be used in conjunction with the Fire Register and Employee Tracking modules.

So if you’re ready to move beyond a twentieth Century central panel access control system, contact us. We provide a turn key solution, with everything you need to fully meet your twenty-first century access control needs.

Benefits to Time and Attendance Software

Managing employee time and attendance data is a hard job for any human resource department. Calculating payroll and holiday time as well as generating reports can take hours, costing your business money. Implementing an easy to use time and attendance system will reduce the number of hours spent on these kind of tasks as well as benefiting your business in numerous other ways.

Managing employees’ time and attendance sounds like hard work for any Human Resources department, even the smallest of companies spend an inordinate amount of time with reports, payroll, and holiday time calculations, the list can seem endless at times.

Many are unaware of the tremendous benefits afforded through the use of Time and Attendance software. Here are just a few:

The Time is Up for Clocks and Cards

If your company is still using a time clock, you are hemorrhaging a great deal of money out of your payroll department. On average, dispensing, collecting, calculating, and purchasing time cards costs roughly eighteen minutes per employee, per week. That’s around fifteen hours for each employee annually. Everyone knows, in business, time is money!

Help Those Who Help Themselves

Although it is simply “part of their job”, Payroll and HR collectively, or separately, spend hours over the course of a year looking up data for employees: vacation time due, verifying days or hours worked, scheduling questions, and many more inquires. Time and Attendance software allows employees to find this information out for themselves.

Absenteeism Adds Up

While some employers may feel that an absent employee is reducing payroll, it is actually costing companies more. According to CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development) research, 90% of businesses say that absenteeism is “a significant cost” for their company. Sickness generally accounts for eight lost working days per year for every staff member or around 3.5% of working time annually.

To save your company valuable time, money, and resources, please contact us to learn more about our Time and Attendance software today.

What Shop Floor Data Capture Can Do For Your Business

As a manufacture making sure your machines are working to the best of their ability is crucial. If one of your machines encounters a problem during the production process your end numbers are likely to drop. In the short run this is unlikely going to hurt your business but over an extensive period of time your available product number will of significantly dropped along with your profit.

Imagine for a moment that you’re a manufacturer: you make dice, and the machines that put out your product can produce 5,000 dice per hour when they’re going full-bore. However, due to altered settings or small hiccoughs in the machinery, you produce 100 fewer dice every 2 hours. That might not be a big deal during any particular day, but over the course of a week, or a month, that takes a significant bite out of your available product and your profits.

Now imagine that you only check your numbers once a week, that’s a lot of lost energy and product you could have avoided if you’d used shop floor data capture.

What Is Shop Floor Data Capture?

Shop floor data capture is a process that keeps track of your output, and which gives you all of your numbers quickly and efficiently. Computer programs track efficiency, tally up the numbers, and send them to you over a wireless connection. Not only that, but these programs can alert you when a problem is detected. This means you find out immediately if there’s a drop in productivity, and you can examine the data over time to see what areas are causing problems.

Find Problems Quickly, Fix Them Fast

Anything that impacts your bottom line has ripple effects. If you can find the source of a flawed product, a slow assembly line, or any other issue, then you will be able to get more done quicker. Since you can’t be everywhere observing everything, Shop Floor Data Capture acts as your eyes and ears, notifying you when there’s a problem. All you need to do is to set up data capture devices, and to install a software suite that will conglomerate that data for you in a single place. Once you have that data, what you choose to do with it is up to you.

For more about shop floor data capture and how ELF Productivity Ltd can help, simply contact us today!

Accurate Time and Attendance is Paramount

Having an accurate time clock is one of the most important features within a business. Employers use the time clock as a way of keeping everything fair and employees rely on them in order to be paid correctly. This is why the implementation of a fully functioning web based time and attendance system which records employee data in real time is becoming ever more essential.

The time clock is one of the most important features of any business, and the more accurate that time clock is, the better. It’s better for employees who want to make sure they get paid for every minute on the clock, and it’s better for employers who want to run a fair, tight ship. With all of the challenges businesses face though, it’s important to try to streamline as much as possible.

That’s where Elf Productivity Ltd. comes into the picture.

Time and Attendance Solutions

What Elf Productivity Ltd. has done is create a software suite that can do multiple things at once. The software combines Access Control and Employee Self-Service with a time clock feature that will keep an accurate count of how long someone has been working. Not only that, but the software allows someone to alter and change their time for accuracy without the necessity of involving other departments and employees. Instead of running a dozen separate programs, each of which has a separate purpose, this suite allows employees to do everything all at once.

Simple and Straightforward

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and this software suite makes the process as simple as possible. The setup and installation are simple, and the software is easy to navigate so that employees can make solid use of it regardless of their level of technical literacy.

At the end of the day a business should always use the best tool for the job, and the suite we’ve created was designed to keep track of all the pertinent details. If you need more information on what our program can do for you then all you have to do is contact us to speak to one of our knowledgeable, professional representatives.

Take Advantage of Shop Floor Data Capture

Production companies can have any number of employees and machines working at any one time making it increasingly difficult for them to monitor time and energy. Meaning business are often unable to determine if employees are slacking or if machines are lagging behind. Fitting a shop floor data capture system in to your business will provide you with the opportunity to track each individual employees actions within each section of the production process as well as monitor machine production and waste numbers.

The Art of Chaos

Production is a stressful part of a business, especially having to monitor employees and efficiency of machinery. This responsibility is challenging while still maintaining a cost-effective production process. The amount of machines and employees are at times overwhelming. With each employee working in various parts of the process, it is often though to determine where there is potential to maximise time and energy. That is, unless you have the right software.

Monitoring All Angles

The unique ID swipe system that Ceequel® uses allows the seamless tracking of both individuals and groups: creating real-time result comparison on duration, efficiency, and productivity; giving the opportunity to recognise specific areas that need attention, in order to reach optimal employee efficiency. You can compare the detailed time records for production and employee attendance, for accurate individual productivity data. Our software even calculates performance based pay, then transfers this data to payroll for seamless accounting. These results are then used tweak the process, amplifying individual and group productivity.

Tracking Machinery

This software isn’t just for employees though, it also maintains the capacity to monitor machines as well, even using calculations to convert employee labour and machine usage into a monetary value which can then track machine down time, allowing you to locate areas to maximise efficiency, helping you monitor your production growth and discover needs for new equipment, ultimately increasing your productivity by process maximisation.

Contact us to learn more about how your company can take advantage of Shop Floor Data Capture and maximise your potential!

Data Capture on the Shop Floor

The numerous different types of software available for business departments has drastically grown over the years and now includes Time and Attendance systems. Ceequel Time and Attendance eliminates the need to record information using pieces of paper and storing them within filing cabinets. The system gathers accurate clocking information in real time, thus saving both time and money.

Big data software has developed from accounting, sales, marketing, and manufacturing project management to now include Shop Floor Data Capture systems. Ceequel® Time and Attendance software works with your corporate Microsoft SQL Server technology to seamlessly handle many of the tasks previously handled with piles of paper forms and painful hand calculation by the human resources department. The system will gather information and make calculations in close to real-time using data from continuous input. Gone is the punch clock, replaced by RFID information systems and easy-to-read ATM type terminals at work stations.

The employee can clock in at terminals located anywhere in the facility, once the employee clocks in, the reading cannot be modified, so you always have the assurance that the records are complete and accurate. Bradford Factor scores are continuously calculated for a running period to aid in the supervision of employees. Automatic adjustments can be made for disabled employees in compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act.

Virtual terminals simulate conventional clock-in systems, using a convenient graphical interface. They run on Windows-based equipment. Since they are software based, they are very flexible allowing users to monitor themselves, getting updates in real-time regarding their hours and other noted features of their performance. Security features allow modifications only by authorised personnel.

The system output identifies employees with photographs, it even designs photo-identification cards and badges. The Human Resources Department receives continuous updating of attendance, hours worked, overtime, calculation of flexi-time to be allotted, and holiday allowances that take account of length of service.

The system also handles shift patterns and outputs graphical shift rosters and rotations. An auditory notification to mark shift changes can be programmed into the system. Data capture provides aids in labour planning, records absences and manages absence allowances. The system simplifies supervision by recognising exceptional bookings-in, recognising when clocking activities are outside of normal, no clockings, or patterns of missed clockings, more or fewer hours than expected, patterns of lateness, or unplanned attendance.

Elf Productivity LTD. supplies and adapts time management and attendance software and terminals to meet your needs. Please contact us for more information.

Is Employee Self Service the wave of the Future?

Businesses are much like machines, with departments acting as cogs that work together in order to achieve goals. If one department fails to complete a task, then it’s possible that other departments within the business may struggle in the completion of their day to day job.

Specialisation in work was one of the biggest developments in creating a society. In the long ago and far away you had metal workers and horse breeders, innkeepers and tanners, each doing their own job in a small setting. Fast-forward to today’s workforce and the village has been replaced by the company, but the idea of specialisation has remained the same: businesses have cashiers and data entry workers, human resources and managers, and each of them does a specific job. The idea is that every worker, team, and department, will come together like cogs in a machine to create a business that works quickly and steadily to achieve its overarching goal.

That’s the goal, at least.

The problem is that it is possible to draw those lines a little too darkly. It isn’t just that a certain task is supposed to be done by another department, it’s that it must be done by that department. Say that Margery just got married and needs to change her last name in the system, but instead of allowing her the ability to go in and do it herself she has to fill out a double set of forms and wait for HR to make the changes for her. Maybe James moved over the weekend, and now he has to update his address. Instead of trusting him to put in the changes he also needs to fill out a stack of forms and wait for HR to get around to making the changes.

The Flexibility of Employee Self Service

Specialisation is a good thing, but so is flexibility. That’s where employee self service comes into the picture. Employee self service means that instead of requiring employees to fill out paperwork and to wait for a specific department to make any and all changes within the company’s system, every employee is given access to change their own information. So rather than filling out forms and waiting a few days to a few weeks, it’s now possible for employees to sign in to the company system, make the necessary changes in a few minutes, and then get back to work.

Elf Productivity Ltd. Is Here To Help

The difficulty with embracing employee self service is that it requires giving more employees more access, which is something that a lot of company software just isn’t made to do. Like the employees the computers have only been programmed to do very specific tasks. That’s why Elf Productivity Ltd. designed a software suite that incorporates everything into a single, flexible whole. From the time clock to data changes, production information to access control, this suite puts all the tools a business needs right at its fingertips.

For more information on how Elf Productivity Ltd. can help your business achieve more with less wasted energy, simply contact us today!

Shop Floor Data Capture Saves You Time And Money!

Modern day technology now makes it possible for businesses to record and transmit employee data in real time making it easier for managers to make accurate decisions quickly. A shop floor data system has the ability to do the above and much more.

One of the most important things business owners can have is information, and the fresher that information is, the better. Thanks to modern information technology it’s possible to record and transmit business data in real-time, which means that it’s possible for businesses to make decisions more quickly and accurately than they could before. This process is often referred to as shop floor data capture.

What Is Shop Floor Data Capture?

Shop floor data capture is, in short, the process of capturing data as projects and events are unfolding in real-time. Whether it’s recording the hours that employees spend on certain tasks, or compiling the number of units produced by a given machine, all of that information is recorded and transmitted instantly. It allows business owners to get a good look at what’s happening on the floor, and they can make decisions and implement policies quickly to make sure problems are swiftly corrected.

Examples often work best to explain how this process works, so let’s take a hypothetical situation: there’s a manufacturer with five machines that all make wire ties. In the past the numbers would be tallied at the end of the day, compiled in a computer, and then printed out at the end of the week. So if there was an error in the third machine that was subtle, and which could only be detected in its slightly reduced output (which has become a largely reduced output by the end of a week) then it will take up to seven days to notice it. A shop floor data capture program would point out those numbers quickly though, and the problem could be brought to management’s attention by the end of the first day. This saves time, and more importantly money that would have been lost due to wasted energy and a depleted product.

Just One More Feature Elf Productivity Ltd. Offers

At Elf Productivity Ltd. it’s out goal to give businesses the best possible tools to get the job done. Our software suites are designed to be simple, organic, easy-to-learn, and to provide clients with all of the features they need to keep productivity up, waste down, and to serve their customers better. We offer shop floor data capture, but we also provide features like employee self-service, automated time clocks, and dozens of other helpful tools that will make sure your business never misses a step.

For more information about how Elf Productivity Ltd. software can help your business simply contact us today!

Why Digital Access Control is so Important

How secure your organisation is can often be the make or break of any new business deal. If clients believe their data is likely to become compromised they will almost always pick a competitor over you. In order to stop this from happening, businesses have been implementing access control systems which allow them to limit what data certain employees have access to.

Security is one of the biggest keys to earning client trust and running a successful business. Clients need to know their information is safe, and one of the best ways to keep it safe is to make sure only employees who need access are the ones that get it. That way if there is a leak or something similar, the number of people who could be responsible is a smaller pool than “everyone in the office”. Not only is the suspect-base smaller, but when there are fewer people who have access to sensitive data there is a smaller chance of that data getting out and falling into the hands of people who shouldn’t have it (e.g. identity thieves, con men, etc.).

Using The Proper Access Control Software

One of the best ways to make sure that data stays safe and secure is to use access control software. This software can be thought of as a digital lock, and only employees who have the key can get through to the other side. The key typically takes the form of a management account and password, thus ensuring that employees who need access to higher-level information can get it easily, but those who don’t need that data to do their jobs simply can’t open the electronic door.

Keeping Things On A Need-To-Know Basis With Elf Productivity Ltd.

Elf Productivity Ltd. knows how difficult it is to make sure all employees have enough information to properly do their jobs, but still keeping sensitive data locked away from the general worker’s pool. That’s why we produce high-quality software that offers access control solutions along with dozens of other features that will help businesses achieve more with less effort.

What other features does the software boast? Well, it offers security and access control solutions, but it also operates as an electronic time clock to keep accurate track of employee hours. This software also allows more employees to do more, allowing anyone to change basic information so there’s no need to go through HR in order to alter an address or change a name to reflect what’s on a driver’s license.

For more information on how our software suites can help you keep sensitive data locked away where it belongs simply contact us today!

Cut through Red Tape with Employee Self Service

Filling out forms to request a change of information on the system can be a time consuming task for employees. This information can then take weeks to be updated due to the number of high priority tasks human resource departments need to complete. Employee self service systems cut out the middle man meaning your employees can update their own data in real time.

Every business has bureaucracy: maybe you need to fill out three forms to have Human Resources change your name in the computer, alternatively you might have to put in a request for a change of address and wait for weeks before the system gets updated; all this red tape is seen as a necessary evil, after all, how else is all this information going to get updated?

By letting the employees do it themselves.

Employee Self Service

Employee Self Service is the idea that all employees are capable of doing simple tasks, such as changing their names, addresses, and other personal information. Instead of giving this power only to the Human Resources department, a business utilises software that allows every employee to access and alter his or her own basic profile. This means that employees can make necessary changes more quickly, and the Human Resources department is freed up to handle different assignments.

Elf Productivity Ltd. Can Help

Efficiency is the name of the game, and Elf Productivity Ltd. can give your business the tools it needs to play in the big leagues. The software suites produced by this company are easy to learn, and they provide more access for more employees. At the same time, though these systems don’t sacrifice security, making absolutely certain that employees only have the amount of access they need to get the job done.
You can go in and change your name and address easily enough, but information like personnel records, evaluations, etc. can only be accessed by those with authority to do so.

What Else Does This Software Do?

Elf Productivity Ltd. wanted to create a single solution for all of a business’s needs, which is why their software balances access control, employee self service, and record keeping. It’s flexible and functional with features that even allow it to be used as a time clock so hourly employees can make sure management knows how long they’ve worked. The suite eliminates redundancy, and provides simple, elegant solutions for fixing the problems every business has to deal with.

For more information on what Elf Productivity Ltd. can do for you and your business simply contact us today!