Hygiene comes first
Gloves, hairnets, damp hands: clocking in has to be touch-free, at the entrance to the production area.
Time & attendance · Food industry
Contactless time and attendance for the food industry
Packing, processing, canning: in production areas, nobody wants gloved or wet hands on a terminal. EASY-STAFF relies on face recognition and takes seasonal hiring in its stride, without adding to the HR workload.
Your constraints
What a food plant asks of time tracking
Hygiene, seasonality and production pace all shape the way people clock in.
Headcount that swells
A campaign or a surge in orders brings in dozens of seasonal workers at once, to be registered and then followed.
Short contracts
Seasonal contracts follow one another, and you need to see which ones are about to end.
With EASY-STAFF
What EASY-STAFF brings to your production unit
- Clock-in by face recognition, without touching the terminal
- The list of seasonal workers loaded by Excel import rather than typed in
- Employment contracts tracked: type, dates, upcoming end dates flagged
- Rotations matched to campaigns, planned by the week or the month
- Several units (plant, packing station, warehouse) in one shared database
- Peak-season overtime split by premium rate for payroll
Recommended time clocks
Face terminals for production areas
Faces are recognised without contact. Hikvision specifies the DS-K1T342MFWX for recognition with or without a mask, with an IP65 rating.
Hikvision
DS-K1T342MFWX
- Face
- Fingerprint
- Card
- PIN
- IP65
- PoE power
- Face with or without a mask
Hikvision
DS-K1T642MFW
- Face
- Fingerprint
- Card
- 6,000 faces
- 5,000 fingerprints
- 4.3" touch screen
ZKTeco
UFace402
- Face
- Fingerprint
- Card
- 3,000 faces
- 4,000 fingerprints
- 4.3" touch screen
In practice
A production campaign, from hiring to closing
Seasonal staff arrive
Their list is imported from Excel, then each person is enrolled on the face terminal.
Production runs
Teams clock in at every shift change; lateness, absences and extra time show up day after day.
The campaign ends
The month's hours go to payroll, and contracts that have ended are flagged.
Frequently asked questions
Does the terminal recognise someone wearing a mask?
It depends on the model: Hikvision specifies face recognition with or without a mask for the DS-K1T342MFWX. The choice is confirmed with you during the assessment.
How do we register dozens of seasonal workers quickly?
Their list loads from an Excel file; each face then has to be enrolled on the terminal, a step we organise with you.
Can we follow several production units?
Yes: each site keeps its own hours, each manager sees their own, and management gets the overall view.
Can we see the software before deciding?
Yes: we run a demo on your own hours, sites and special cases. Request it here.
Related pages
Manufacturing
Shift teams, night work, busy shift changes.
Multi-site
All your locations in a single platform.
Time clocks
ZKTeco and Hikvision terminals, installed and connected.
Get ready for your next campaign
We show you the seasonal staff import, face clock-in and the payroll report over a production month.