Case Studies | Page 6

Dowle VES is an important manufacturer of car interiors and upholstery solutions based in Dover, Kent. The company employs around 100 staff members at the site, working in multiple shifts.

Ricor Limited is a well established manufacturer of metal pressings & welded assemblies with over 40 years experience within the industry. The company supplies components to a wide range of sectors including automotive, power generation, retail and developing green industry technologies.

Suttons Seeds is an internationally renowned supplier of flower and vegetable seeds, young plants, bulbs, fruit bushes and other horticultural products to amateur gardeners. The company has a reputation for quality and service that is second to none, and a remarkable history that goes back over two hundred years.

Village Glass is a national company offering standard and specialised glass products for residential and commercial applications. It began as a local glass shop in the mid-1980s with two full-time employees making sealed units by hand, but developed extensively over the past 30 years.

Guhring is a German based private limited company that was founded in 1898 and now employs approximately 6,000 people in manufacturing, service and sales operations around the world.

Amcor is a global leader in responsible global packaging solutions supplying a broad range of plastic (rigid & flexible), fibre, metal and glass packaging products to enhance the products consumers use in everyday life.

Smiths Metal Centres is one of UK’s most important stockholders and suppliers of all forms of aluminium, brass, bronze, copper and steel, as well as many other metals and plastics.

Kirkpatrick Ltd was founded in 1855 in Walsall. Since that date the Company has manufactured high quality malleable iron castings for a variety of uses. In 1997 Stephen Preston, Financial Director, was in charge of finding a new Time & Attendance system to replace their aging Blick system. Blick did not have a system that suited us and there were other issues with them which made us want to look elsewhere said Stephen.

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.