Are your ID Badges Simplifying Shop Floor Data Capture?

Smart ID cards are slowly becoming paramount for companies who wish to simplify their shop floor data capture process. The ID badges that are provided when you implement the Ceequel time and attendance system allow your employees to accomplish a number of important day to day functions such as the ones listed below.

It used to be that the multi-purpose ID pass was the stuff of science fiction. These days, however, smart ID cards are becoming a common tool for simplifying the process of shop floor data capture. With the ID badges that come standard with time and attendance systems from Ceequel, your employees can accomplish a number of important daily functions with the same clip-on badge.

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Three Big Reasons you need Ceequel Access Control for your Organisation

Making sure your many different business sites are secure may be the single most important job of your technology department. With data breaches on the up making sure your company’s data system is secure has never been more important. The problem with having really tight security on your network however, is that you risk locking your own employees out of information they need to complete their day to day jobs.

Securing your many different business sites may be the single most important priority of the information technology department at your organisation. With data breaches making ongoing headlines for unfortunate retailers and other companies across the globe, an even more discerning eye has been focused on corporate security.

One of the problems with having really tight security over your company’s resources is that some personnel do actually need to have access to your data. Preventing the bad guys from having access is absolutely necessary, but you still need to allow the good guys, who work for you, the necessary data and access to do their jobs. This is where the idea of corporate security morphs into the more correct term of access control.

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Shop Floor Data Capture: Enabling continuous improvement

If within your organisation you would like to implement a formal lean or six sigma program having accurate data from your manufacturing process is key. Invoices and purchase orders lay the trail for analysing your inventory costs. The costs associated with labour needs to also be collected.

It is a frequently cited management truism that “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” From the earliest days of the quality movement within manufacturing, from Taylor to Ford, or Deming and Shingo, and on to Womack and Jones – the simple premise of “measuring everything” has been at the root of continuous improvement. Without a vehicle for enabling Shop Floor Data Capture, however, the amount of labour expended in any manufacturing process is either subjectively measured or likely to experience wide variation and anomalous data.

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Employee Self Service with Ceequel Takes Old School Punch Clocks to a New Dimension

The day and age of punch clocks has come and gone with many business now choosing to switch out the old system for new improved web based time and attendance software. The new system not only allows employees to clock in and out but also containes countless new features for employees and employers to enjoy and appreciate on a day to day basis. Ceequel time and attendance is a web based reporting solution for employee self service that can save your company time and money.

Some things in life and pop culture alike are indeed timeless. Fans of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons from decades ago know this to be true, because watching some of those old episodes is still enough to make even the most uptight among us fall of the couch laughing on occasion. Take, for instance, the old cartoon with Sam the Sheepdog and Ralph the Coyote (a.k.a. “Wile E. Coyote”) reporting for work at a field full of sheep. Sam’s job is to guard the herd and Ralph’s job consequently is to attempt to abduct the herd. The episode begins and ends with them punching in and out of a time clock mechanically fastened to a tree, which reports their attendance. The punching serves as a double meaning here, whereas as soon as they “punch in”, Sam commences with “punching in” Ralph’s face… classic cartoon comedy.

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Reducing the Workload for Human Resources

Two of the most important tasks a human resource department is the maintenance of all company employees and the successful implementation of new starters. Both of these aspects require HR personnel to spend valuable company time completing mundane tasks. With Ceequel HR management these functions can actually be automated reducing time and saving money.

Two of the responsibilities of Human Resources (HR) are maintaining the organisation chart of a company and successfully bringing in new starters. Both aspects of HR involve personnel spending time on mundane details. With Ceequel these HR management functions can be automated reducing the time spent. In addition process improvements are observed.

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Syncing Time and Attendance Records

The best way for your business to enhance their bookkeeping and accounting is by syncing your time and attendance records between both departments. Syncing the data between the two makes sure every single one of your employees is paid on time and correctly every pay period.

Syncing Time and Attendance records is often the best way for a business to enhance their bookkeeping and accounting. Offering jobs to people in the community is a beautiful thing for a business to do. However, those jobs must pay well and pay properly to every employee.

With a time and attendance program that is synced to the company’s accounting or payroll system, every employee can be paid exactly what they are owed every pay period. This is especially helpful for the business owner who is working their business alone. The time and attendance software can transmit employee information to the business’ accounting or payroll program.

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Time and Attendance Software Helps You Make Remote Sites More Efficient

Whether you operate on one site or more tracking your employees time and attendance data is an important part of running your business. Managing time and attendance on multiple sites however used to present a number of challenges for a business. Modern day time and attendance systems combat these challenges by providing you with a centralised solution.

Keeping track of your company’s time and attendance data is an important part of running your business whether you operate out of one site or a dozen. However, managing time and attendance at multiple sites presents one with a number of unique challenges. Modern time and attendance software can help you meet these challenges in a number of ways.

Most importantly, time and attendance software provides you with a centralised solution to your time and attendance needs. We at ELF recommend Ceequel time and attendance software for multi-site operations because of how easy it is to connect your sites using this program. Whether you need to handle a network of locations, mobile locations, or locations in extremely remote areas, Ceequel’s time and attendance module offers you connectivity options that lets your employees log into your system from anywhere.

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Now There’s a Portable Option for Access Control Using Facial Recognition Software

Facial recognition software was once bulky and complicated and even the modern day PC tools are often difficult to use and do not work well when deployed to remote sites. Inferred imaging can often be influenced by light emanating from background sources which can often become a problem although standard which facial recognition software recent developments in technology now give businesses better options.

In ancient days, people thought that humans were able to see because our eyes projected light. While we know today that this is a gross misstatement of fact, we also know that our faces actually do produce infra red radiation, a long-wavelength kind of light invisible to the human eye. We can only detect infra red radiation as heat, but modern computers can use this light to produce an accurate image of a human face. This capability has revolutionised facial recognition technology, making it a useful tool for access control, time and attendance, and a number of other tasks.

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Should You Integrate Your Human Resource Software With Your Other Systems?

Many companies benefit highly from having one solutions for all of their business processes. Our Ceequel human resource software provides your company with the option to integrate your HR software with time and attendance, shop floor data capture and any other systems that manage your business processes. You have the option however to used our human resource management system by itself.

Many businesspeople find that they benefit greatly having a “one stop shop” solution for a variety of business processes. Using human resource software from Ceequel gives your company the opportunity to integrate your human resource software with your shop floor data capture system, your time and attendance system, and other systems that manage your business process software. However, you can also let your human resource software stand on its own – and some business owners prefer it this way.

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Making Sure Your Access Control System Adapts to the Unexpected

Visitors who are unauthorised and unexpected can often play havoc with your security system and sometime mean your business is in violation of security regulations. Having an access control system in place can prevent any event that would lead to a security breach from happening as they adapt to unexpected circumstances whilst also making sure your businesses security isn’t compromised.

In many ways, the purpose of an access control system is to prevent the unexpected from interfering with your company’s work. Unexpected and unauthorised visitors can play havoc with your operation and mean that your company is in violation of security regulations. However, access control systems can’t prevent every event that could lead to a security breach. Instead, they must adapt to unexpected circumstances without compromising your business’s security.

One extremely common circumstance that will require your access control system to adapt is an employee’s losing an access card. If your access control system can’t adapt to this circumstance, a simple mistake can turn into a time-consuming replacement process or even a security breach. When selecting access control software, make sure it makes it easy for you to cancel lost cards and issue new ones.

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