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Guestro Casting and Machining ­automates T&A

When it comes to running a business, big or small, key to profitability is the judicious management of the company’s resources, particularly its employees. Careful management of time and attendance, productivity, keeping track of annual leave and sick leave is key to guarding the bottom line.

Many businesses are waking up to the fact that punched time cards were for long the backbone of many industrial businesses, but do not necessarily provide the level of timely and accurate reporting that HR and line managers need to ascertain an employee’s productivity and performance.

Uniclox Technologies recently completed its first Bodet Software-Uniclox installation since the partnership deal was signed between the two companies in 2015. The successful completion was done for Guestro Casting and Machining, a foundry located in Benoni, which belongs to Dorbyl, which is now part of the Naledi Inhlanganiso industrial group.

Derek Udemans, marketing manager for Uniclox, said the completion is a good news story for Uniclox and Guestro, which is experiencing something of a renaissance having been modernised and expanded.

“The 60-year-old foundry, until recently, was rather run down and out of date and was viewed as something of a taxable write off by the Dorbyl group. However, the foundry had a change in ownership in 2012/2013 and the new owners of Guestro Casting and Machining have now brought the foundry back to life by refurbishing the casting line and purchasing new furnaces to increase casting capacity from 120 tons to 200 tons per day. It now has a large staff complement of 300 and Uniclox was called in to help with a new state-of-the-art resource management system,” Udemans said.

“We were asked by Guestro to provide them with a full resource management package. We responded by supplying them with 17 of Bodet’s Kelio Prio V2 Proximity card readers. Out of these terminals eight are used for access control and nine for time and attendance points throughout the foundry.”

Udemans says that the terminals are controlled using Kelio Integral R2 software. This offers the client with three-shift auto detection, a full real-time system, as well as visitors’ access control. It took Uniclox four weeks to fully install the system.

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