The company offers specialised orbital welding and high-tech fabrication to a variety of clients within the pharmaceutical, aerospace, chemical, semiconductor and allied industries, worldwide.

 

Orbital, which currently employs 55 staff, has invested £120,000 in expanding its facility by adding an additional 3,500 sq ft.

 

The company has also recently invested £95,000 in a computer controlled precision welding system permits wire feed and lathe welding.

 

Ian Pearson, chairman, said: "As a business we take great pride in developing new designs and delivering innovative engineering solutions, utilising the latest technology and implementing state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques that will ensure our respected position within the industry.

 

"We are excited about the future and the forecast of growth for Orbital and we welcome the opportunity to create more jobs in the South West."

 

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When there is an expansion of both working space and employee numbers, as is the case for Orbital Fabrications, it is important that business make sure their time and attendance systems can deal with the challenge.

 

This challenge could take several forms. Firstly, if your company still uses paper timesheets your existing payroll staff could find their workloads overstretched by the new staff members, as processing paper timesheets is a very labour-intensive and inefficient task. 

 

Secondarily, if you use a clocking in and out system which does not record exactly who has just clocked in or out irrefutably, you are leaving yourself open to time fraud in the form of “buddy punching”, where employees swap cards, PINs or passwords to log in as each other. 

 

The best method of attendance management is biometric clocking in and out. It is much more difficult to fool biometric stations, requiring advanced knowledge and technology as opposed to just swapping information. 

 

At Time and Attendance South East we sell fingerprint scanners and hand scanners for biometric time and attendance management.