About Steadvale
Steadvale was established in 1979 by two partners specialising in the reciprocating compressor market. Steadvale has grown into one of the most respected independent providers of Compressor and Dryer servicing, replacement parts, and new installations.
Strategic Alliances Steadvale has set up a strategic alliance with Josef Mehrer and Almig. They supply and maintain compressors for new and current installations within the UK and Ireland.
Steadvale’s modern headquarters and multi-functional factory guarantees a prompt response to all their customers throughout the UK and worldwide. With exceptional servicing, and their guarantee replacement of parts and hardware, they fulfil all their customer’s needs for the UK, Europe, and worldwide.
The Challenge
With a 30-50 employee workforce based in their Scottish manufacturing facility and a handful of remote engineers around the country. Steadvale needed a robust and reliable time and attendance solution. It should be from a provider who could also help track remote off-site workers.
Having historically used timesheets but now with an expanding workforce, payroll and operations wanted something to reduce the administration time internally. Additionally, they wanted control tools to manage the wage bill. Steadvale desired to modernize their fire reporting process and have live on-site and off-site data available.
Regarding complexity, Steadvale’s manufacturing team operates an early and late rotating shift pattern. This meant that easy rostering and shift scheduling was important. Steadvale also wanted to be made aware of ‘daily’ overtime. They wanted a system that could monitor unpaid or paid lunch breaks.
“Having looked at quite a few systems during the procurement process, the Chronicle Online product was easy to understand and something I wanted to use.”
Colin Stevenson, HSQA/Service Co-ordinator
The Solution
Due to the remote engineers at Steadvale, the Chronicle Online smartphone clocking app was a natural choice for the engineering team. The Accu-touch Biometric device was a good fit for production as it supported activity and cost center tracking. It also monitored lunch breaks and ensured there is no ‘buddy clocking’ in a 24hr manufacturing operation.
Chronicle deployed and configured in a few days remotely. They sent a Chronicle engineer to install on-site, which made the installation and set-up process incredibly quick. The Chronicle engineer also helped enroll and train new users on how to clock in and out. This reduced bedding-in time.
“Chronicles implementation team helped us create new employees and configure shifts patterns during training. This help immensely in reducing the set-up time.”
Colin Stevenson, HSQA/Service Co-ordinator
The Technology
Biometric Clocking Terminal Smartphone Clocking
Chronicle Self Servicing
About Chronicle Computing
Chronicle Computing was established to provide small, medium, and large companies the most functional, robust, and affordable Cloud-Based Workforce Management System in the UK.
Specialising in Time and Attendance, Access Control, HR and Scheduling Solutions. Chronicle Computing has extensive experience in managing, implementing, configuring, installing and training users on WFM systems.
Chronicle Computing Ltd
Telephone: 07401578527
Freephone: 0800 1073284
Email: [email protected]
Mission Statement – ‘To provide an affordable, simple, and robust web-based workforce management system. Users can prepare a payroll run with it and extract management information critical to a successful organization.’
