Time & Attendance Case Studies

Meridian is a leading company in digital and analogue audio, in surround sound, in CD, DVD and Video. Meridian products are designed and made at their factory in Huntingdon, England.

Wabtec Rail Limited provides rail vehicle overhaul, conversion and maintenance services throughout the United Kingdom and is based on a 23 acre site in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. In 2000, during a period of reorganisation, the Accounts Department wanted to replace the company’s time clock system because it was too time consuming to process that clock cards manually, especially at the end of the week when the punch cards were totalled and entered on a computer.

British Pepper and Spice have been combining their knowledge, craft and imagination to produce quality herbs and spices over many years. Today, British Pepper and Spice are the largest UK supplier of retailer branded herbs and spices. Their own Gourmet Garden range can be found in all major supermarkets. Around 150 permanent staff are employed at their facility at Brackmills in Northampton.

ABB Limited who specialise in process instrumentation and control, analytical products and systems and industry-specific automation solutions have installed a WinTA time and attendance system at the factory in St Neots. ABB wanted a established local company to install a Time and Attendance and Access control system.

Payroll Manager Tracey Door and Mark Ray were in charge of finding a new Time & Attendance system when the UK part of the Spanish company Maier started up in Burntwood near Walsall. After investigating what was available in the market they elected on Tensor and a WinTA and WinPM system was installed in December 2000. This was further upgraded to a WinTA Enterprise and Personnel Enterprise system in November 2002. The installation comprises a T2561 clocking station with 4 additional Smart Card scanners which provide access control within the building via electronic door locks.

British Optical Ltd has an enviable reputation for being World leaders for the supply of Optics for Entertainment Lighting, rod moulding, Reflectors and Projection Optics. Their main operation is based at Aldridge, Walsall. British Optical’s Accountant, Alan Clark, was in charge of getting a new Time & Attendance system to replace their old Blick swipe card system. They wanted to replace the Blick system because of the high maintenance cost, but had to wait until the long (5 year) contract with Blick had expired before they could replace it.

Based in London, Harvey & Brockless are a premier supplier of quality cheese products and food ingredients to the UK and Europe.

For more than 100 years Tetley have been producing the nations tea and today manufacture tea which is exported all over the world. The main UK manufacturing site, based in Eaglescliffe, Co Durham, employs around 600 personnel.

Waterside Garden Centre, Peterborough is not a Garden Centre in the traditional sense but a destination in itself. It allows customers to stroll around the centre’s scenic plant area, walk on the adjacent Fenland Nature Trail and peruse their wide ranging selection of products for the home and garden, pets and fish.

Sun Valley, a recognised leader in the European food industry, recently have installed a WinTA system to control access control at their UK sites. From turnstiles and car park barriers to internal doors the system had to allow the staff to gain access quickly while providing an accurate procedure for accounting for all members of staff and visitors in emergency situations.

Fenmarc is a large supplier of a wide range of quality fresh and prepared produce to major supermarkets. It employs over 500 people at its 3 factories – 2 within 10 miles of March and another 70 miles away at Swinderby.

Queensgate Shopping Centre dominates the centre of Peterborough. It is owned by Norwich Union and managed by Jones Lang LaSalle. The centre is completely covered, has two shopping levels and over 90 shops. The anchor stores are John Lewis, Waitrose, BHS, M&S, H&M, Boots and Argos. The Centre is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which involves staff working various shift patterns.