Thursday, 17 September 2009
Add us to your LinkedIn network
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Company Name: Houghton International Electrical Services Ltd
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Houghton International - Committed to Macmillan Cancer Support & True North
During the past 25 years, Houghton International have supported a variety of Charities, either through donations or finding the time to complete a personal challenge and raising sponsorship. Our chosen Charity in our Silver Jubilee Year and beyond is Macmillan Cancer Support.
Our Managing Director, Michael Mitten, has set up the True North organisation, to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, in memory of his father, Ron Mitten who founded Houghton International in 1984.
To sponsor Michael for this amazing achievement visit: www.justgiving.com/truenorth. For more information on the Expedition visit Michael's blog: http://www.truenorth2009.blogspot.com
For information on our other charity work, visit the Charity work page on our website.
Launching the Houghton International Online News Archive
Houghton International have published many News Articles on our Website since the website relaunch in October 2008. For your benefit, we have created an archive of all news articles and brochures that we have published online.
If you have any queries please contact Emma Pattison, Marketing Executive on +44 (0)191 234 3000 or email: emma.pattison@houghton-international.com
Monday, 14 September 2009
Visit our Facebook Page
Visit the Houghton International Facebook Page and become a fan.
Make sure to invite your friends and colleagues!
Join us on Twitter
Houghton International are now on Twitter.
Our Twitter name is: HoughtonInt
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Read our feature in The Rail Engineer Magazine
Houghton International are delighted to announce that we are featured in the June 2009 Issue of The Rail Engineer Magazine.
"Everything matters.
Stuart Marsh reports on how attention to detail and innovation have brought success to Houghton International, a Tyneside company specialising in traction motor refurbishments."
For more information on our services to the Rail Industry visit the Rail section, of our Website or contact Ian Young, Rail Business Unit Manager on +44 (0) 191 234 7807 or email: ian.young@houghton-international.com.
Development of the EMIR Time & Attendance System
The Houghton International corporate strategy is “to develop long-term partnerships with worldwide brands in the electric motor and generator marketplaces. By listening to our customers' needs, understanding the markets in which they operate and how they add value to their customers, we tailor our investments and business structure to deliver value that exceeds all expectations.”
To be able to achieve this, we understand that our operational procedures and systems have to be constantly reviewed and updated.
Houghton International have pioneered the development of Solutions in IT’s EMIR Time and Attendance system, in conjunction with Solutions in IT.
The EMIR Time and Attendance system has been in place since April 2009 and is proving invaluable in tracking the process of all work in progress and enables us to track the precise amount of time spent on each operation via the EMIR software.
The main objective of the live time management system is to support the development of a performance driven culture by improving efficiency and workforce management systems, minimising human errors when recording time on jobs, enabling invoicing on delivery date and reducing admin time spent on labour recording.
The EMIR T&A system is an invaluable tool that helps us to achieve all these objectives. Its functionalities were developed to allow us to record and measure data more accurately. We can now plan the work operations and their times required on jobs and measure those operations as they happen.
Another functionality of the EMIR T&A system is entry/exit log for all staff. Labour recording and attendance logs are achieved by swiping bar codes onto a scanner. This data is now used by the management to monitor the true performance of staff.
Although the system is simple in operation, it took a lot of specifying with Solutions in IT to ensure that the solution matched our needs. The system has to cope with multiple time rates for all employees on multiple shift patterns.
Since the T&A system is an integral part of EMIR we have all finance, logistics and attendance data stored within one system, which is another advantage of choosing this solution over other solutions available on the market.
For more information on the EMIR Time and Attendance system contact Gary Downes on: 0845 009 4588, email: gary@solutionsinit.com or visit: www.solutionsinit.com
About Solutions in IT
“Solutions in IT have been providing specialist software and I.T. solutions for the Electronic and Electro-mechanical repair, sales and service industry for over 15 years, since the creation of our BOSS and EMIR products back in 1994.
This customised software has since been installed in over 120 companies during this period, from the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Asia, and have market leading products in this, our only, target sector. We have many customers amongst the excellent AEMT membership, of which Houghton International are a highly valued one.
Our EMIR Professional software continues to push the boundaries, and provide new functionality for our customers to cover more areas of their businesses. The Time & Attendance functionality, produced in conjunction with Houghton International, shows how we can take a customer requirement and work it into a full blown solution within our existing EMIR software in a short time frame.
Our developers at FHG Software, headed by John Anderson, play a huge part in the production and testing of the solution, and their support services are vital to ensure our customers run a trouble-free software system that they can rely on to manage their businesses.
We have enjoyed working on this solution, and look forward to continuing our excellent working relationship with Houghton International.” Gary Downes, Director, Solutions in IT Ltd
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