The half-acre site now holds a multi-purpose building designed to increase production capabilities, including workshop, clean room and 3D printing and modelling design studio.

 

Trident Hydraulics was founded in 2002, and provides its products to business of all sizes across range of industries, including manufacturing, automotive, agricultural and chemical.

 

The company aims to double its workforce by 2021, expanding its technical mechanical engineering team. 

 

Managing director Mike Forster said: "The new facility is exactly what we’ve been looking for to help us ramp up our production capacity and build our brand’s stature in the marketplace.

 

"We had outgrown our original premises and so this new site is integral in helping us to take on more contracts, as well as being able to service customers on-site, instead of always travelling out to them.

 

"We can also now accommodate large machinery and vehicles, for fit out. We forecast revenue and turnover increases as a direct result of this venture."

 

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An area which is often overlooked as companies expand and grow is how they measure their time and attendance. This is particularly important if they are also recruiting new staff, since this puts more strain on existing processes.

 

The least effective form of time and attendance management is still practiced by hundreds of companies all over the country – the self-reporting paper timesheet.

 

Inexact, or worse, falsified recording of hours can lead to potential infringements of the Working Time Directive, amongst other issues like tax discrepancies due to incorrect payslips. 

 

The next stage of timesheet processing is that somebody needs to collect all of those individual timesheets and enter all that data number by number into a spreadsheet in order to send it to the payroll software. 

 

There are a number of workarounds to these problems. The best solution is to centralise and automate both those parts of the process. With our clocking stations and top-quality time and attendance software, we can do exactly this. 

 

Employees no longer have to spend time and energy filling in the forms, because all they need to do is just clock in or out using their smartcards or fingerprints. The process is over in less than a second, and the data is then automatically sent to the central database. 

 

Payroll staff no longer need to squint at bad handwriting and hope that this number is a 7, not a 1, because with our system the collected data can be exported quickly and easily, in a format suitable for all the leading payroll programs.