Re: Time Tracking

[Bert Obbink <bert.obbink@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

see www.atimo.nl.

This is a company I know of that is specialized in this field. We did a
survey in 1994 to find a time/order registration tool for use in the
automobile garages (the auto-repair department).
It had to face up against a dirty environment (oil, dust, sand, et cetera)
and they offered the best system we could find.

There registration systems work with many readers from bar-code readers to
proximity cards and anything in between. We have installed many systems over
the years and I must say without any problems. They did build an interface
towards our software to meet our needs .
The company I work for is a major supplier for (auto)dealer management
software in the Netherlands.

They are selling to many other companies in may other fields. There software
supports multiple orders per person and multiple persons per order. And in
all kind of combinations.

That brings us to the one ‘but':  there software is, just like ours, only
available in the Dutch language and based on Dutch law.

I don't think this offers many help, but as you wrote "even if it exists
would be  nice to know", well it exists...


Bert.

members-request@kalamazoolinux.org wrote:

> Afternoon Everyone,
>
> I'm looking for some software and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts
> on where I could find this, even it it exists would be  nice to know.
> What I'm looking for is a time/project tracking software that would
> interface with a scanner, not a typical scanner, but the kind that would
> use magnetic cards that you would pass through the reader... kinda like
> your credit/atm cards, or the room keys of most hotels, except these
> would be assigned to an individual project.
>
> Basically, I'm looking for a quick and easy way for a body shop to track
> their time per project.  They don't want to do it on paper, so I thought
> if each project that came through could have a card and a central
> reader, then we could track it that way... they would swipe the card
> when they
> started the project and again when they finish.  The main requirements
> would be that its EASY for them to use and they don't really want to
> enter anything on the computer (mainly because they have messy hands and
> that wouldn't be a good thing, and cost is a definite issue)  If anyone
> has heard of what I'm looking for, or has some alternative that I have
> not thought of, I would appreciate it.  They go from job to job as one
> is drying, they get the next ready etc... and it makes it very difficult
> to cost out product/projects.
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help!
> ~Brenda
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