Be it a Software Industry or Hardware
Industry, wherever there is a considerable amount of workforce involved,
Time and Attendance plays an important role. Especially, the automation
of the time and attendance process. Its the Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
that tops the list on the day of chequered flag. Lets see how Kronos
does it ,..
Having known that Kronos Workforce
Timekeeper is used for processing the time and attendance Data of the
workforce in an organization, Lets concentrate on the “Data Collection
Manager” of kronos. DCM is a set of applications that enables the
interaction between data collection devices or clocks and a host
application like kronos workforce timekeeper.
DCM constitutes the
- Communication Monitor,
- Device Manager,
- Device Work Rules,
- Event Manager, and
- Sentinel Service applications.
Communication Monitor:
When an employee swipes in the access card to enter his/her workplace,
the exact time is captured/collected in a collection device such as
clocks, biometric devices,.. The collected information needs to reach
the host application for further processing, If there is a data flow
error or when a collection device is down, then we use the communication
monitor to test device communications and its transactions.
Device Manager: is used
to check the status of the collection devices and to configure the
device firmware. Start and Stop services of the data collection devices
is one of the frequently used features of the device manager during the
configuration and re-initialization of the device.
Lets see more about pay rule, work rule, their associations and few interesting facts about event manager and sentinel service in the next post.
**DCM – Data Collection Manager
**DCD – Data Collection Devices
**DCD – Data Collection Devices
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