About Kaba Workforce Solutions

Kaba Workforce Solutions, DBA is a North American operating subsidiary of Kaba Holding AG (SWISS: KABN), the multi-national, publicly traded security corporation.

Kaba is a technology leader in the worldwide security industry and employs approximately 10,000 people in more than 60 countries. The company designs, develops, manufactures and distributes comprehensive access control solutions for buildings, facilities and sites, and interrelated solutions for personal identification and enterprise data collection. From it’s origin as a maker of mechanical clocks, Kaba has been the leader and driver in developing state-of-the-art, mechanical and technology security products for over 145 years and has evolved to become the premiere provider of touch screen time, labor and access control terminals, personal identification technology, and automated data collection solutions for enterprise business systems.

Facts About Kaba Holding

Kaba launched Kaba Workforce Solutions (Kaba) in Miramar, Florida in 2000. As a subsidiary of the Kaba Group of companies, Kaba develops workforce management technologies to offer a full range of solutions for the recording and processing of time and labor data for complex manufacturing. Kaba provides technologies and services for automated time and attendance, labor data collection, demand scheduling, analytics, employee self-service, regulatory compliance and consulting. To date, the company has provided systems that allow manufacturing clients worldwide to efficiently collect, validate, and process workforce time and labor information for enterprise systems optimization. The company offers a suite of flexible products that include B-COMM™ communications software for ERP partners such as SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, and AutoTime, an end-to-end time and attendance, labor collection, analytics and labor costing system.

Markets and Industry Leading Clients

Kaba Workforce Solutions serves several sectors within the global manufacturing industry including:

- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive
- High-Tech
- Process Manufacturing
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Government/Education
- Public Sector
- Retail

- Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation
- BMW
- Boeing
- Goodrich Corporation
- Hamilton Sunstrund
- Hershey’s
- Invensys
- Kollsman, Inc.
- Kraft Foods
- Northrop Grumman
- Nibco
- Raytheon
- Schott Corporation
- Snap-On-Tools
- Tenneco Automotive
- Thyssenkrupp Budd
- U 46
- Union Carbide

Workforce Management Solutions

Kaba Workforce Solutions offers a suite of technology solutions for Time and Attendance, Workforce Scheduling, Shop-Floor Data Collection, ESS / MSS and Analytics.

AUTOTIME
AutoTime 6 is Kaba Workforce Solutions’ premier and most robust WFM solution, providing Time and Attendance, Labor Costing and Analytics, and Employee Self-Service (ESS) functionality, enabling organizations to increase accuracy, visibility and productivity, while reducing operational overhead costs. Certified integration with HR, Payroll, ERP, and MES solutions provide companies with the ability to maximize the functionality of their existing business systems. Business policies are automatically enforced, with gross pay and labor calculations, pay–to-labor reconciliation and production labor management functionality. Its configurable architecture provides customized end user interfaces for both Web browser and time clock users, maximizing user acceptance, while streamlining business processes.

In addition, AutoTime 6 includes custom features such as complex scheduling technology for real-time, rule-based demand driven workforce scheduling connecting front-line managers with enterprise decision-makers for highly strategic staffing solutions. It offers the ability to automatically manage the resource plan (schedule), by aligning demands with employee qualifications, availability, productivity, and preferences while controlling excess overtime. The technology ensures that the right person will always be on the right job at the right time.

B-COMM™ 7.0
B-COMM™ 7.0 is a proprietary technology that compliments and enhances enterprise systems including Oracle Time and Labor™, PeopleSoft Time and Labor™, mySAP™ ERP among others, by providing the communications link necessary for automated and validated Time and Labor data collection. B-COMM™ 7.0 is a certified software that links Kaba time collection and shop floor terminals to the ERP partners systems by communicating via XML messages and seamlessly managing the communications stream by providing a secure, robust bi-directional communication channel.

The technology records clock-in and clock-out time stamps, breaks and meals, and job transfer times. B-COMM™ 7.0 can also record job transfer data with detailed task information and records elapsed time entries such as vacation time, sick day, jury duty and holidays. In addition, B-COMM™ supports project labor reporting against tasks, chargeable projects and expenditure types, and data continues to be collected and validated even when the enterprise system is not in operation.

Data Collection Hardware
Kaba Workforce Solutions also offers a complete range of data collection components and devices for integration with all enterprise workforce management and time and attendance solutions. Technologies include a family of terminals that offer a wide range of badge based data collection devices for access control, time and attendance/shop floor data collection, biometrics and telecommunications.