Tianbao Heavy Industry Selects Kronos for Higher Frontline Efficiency

BEIJING, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Chengdu Tianbao Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., the leading supplier of energy-saving, environmental-friendly and clean energy equipments in China, recently selected workforce management solutions from Kronos Incorporated to control labor cost, minimize compliance risk and improve workforce productivity for its manufacturing basis located in Chengdu of China.

News Facts

• Tianbao will use time and attendance and workforce activities solutions from Kronos^® to completely automate critical workforce business processes, and to access current and valuable information regarding its workforce, especially of production fields.
• The workforce activities solutions will enable the organization to easily track and manage daily production in real time. Supervisors can view real-time data on jobs, operations, work centers, labor hour standards, and labor expended.
• By installing Kronos time and attendance and activities applications, both software and hardware, field managers of Tianbao workshops will have real-time insight to labor, and Work-in-Process (WIP), allowing them to identify and resolve bottlenecks timely, resulting in higher levels of productivity. 
• The automation of standardized data collection and timekeeping processes will help to eliminate payroll errors and inflated labor costs, and minimize the compliance risks.
• Tianbao enjoyed a fast development in the last decade and has been one of the leading heavy industry equipments providers in China Southeast. Now, Tianbao is now confronted with a challenge in efficiently harnessing his workforce team of 1,100 employees and managers.
• Tianbo is the first private company customer of Kronos in Greater China.

Supporting quotes

• Deng Qinhua, Chairman of the Board, Tianbao Heavy Industry Co.

"Tianbao's fast growth in recent years has put us in a position where our HR executives burden a more and more pressure of how to effectively manage the bulging workforce, measure employee performance and according costs precisely in real time. Now leveraging the Kronos Workforce, we can easily monitor the workforce performance, analyze costs in real time, and maximize our investments in HR."

• David Mitchell, General Manager of Great China, Kronos 

"Powerful trends in the global economy have reshaped the composition of the modern workforce and transformed the terms of the employee-employer relationship, causing organizations to reassess how they manage and motivate the workforce in the last decade. In China, the Workforce is changing, so rules have to change. Now, it is a big challenge for local players like Chengdu Tianbao. I am sure and proud that Kronos is the key for Tianbao in the changing workforce market."

Supporting Resources

• About Tianbao Power Equipments – Chengdu Tianbao Heavy Industry Co., Ltd (short form as Tianbao Heavy Industry) was founded in 2001, and it was formerly as Chengdu Tianbao Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The company is located in the Chengdu city that is known as" Land of plenty" so it has a very good geographical location and close to "Three Gorges Dajian road", nearby Chongqing and Leshan ports, Transportation is extremely convenient. The company is one of the largest and most powerful heavy equipment enterprises in southwest of China. For more information, visit www.tbhic.cn/

About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000^® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

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