The new facility, located in Napton, will be the UK’s first purpose-built advanced manufacturing centre. It is being run in partnership with Shield Group Engineering, and will complement their existing R&D Technology Centre.

 

Chief executive and founder Steve Lindsey said: “I’m delighted to be able to announce the opening of this state-of-the-art digital manufacturing facility here in the Midlands, taking advantage of the world class talent in the area, to power the next phase of growth.

 

"Lontra is now incredibly well-positioned to address the £69bn global market for compressed air solutions and we continue to develop high value and exportable technologies, products and services."

 

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Factories and production facilities have been using clocking in and out to monitor and measure their employees’ hours for payroll pretty much since the start of factories. The first time-recording machine was invented in 1888!

 

However, there is still plenty of room for many factories to modernise their time and attendance systems in order to maximise efficiency and minimise errors. 

 

Some companies are still using very old-fashioned methods such as swipe cards or punch cards, or very basic fingerprint clocking machines which don’t link to any sort of central system. Depending on the company’s requirements, here at Time and Attendance Midlands we can offer three alternatives: the contactless smartcard, the fingerprint reader, and the hand geometry.

 

These first two options (cards and fingerprints) can both be programmed onto the same reader; our time and attendance clocking terminal. The hand geometry scanner is a different piece of hardware, though it is seamlessly incorporated into our software. It is often preferred in situations where workers might end up with very dirty fingers, like a construction site or a kitchen, thus rendering fingerprints not as useful.