Canteen Management Solution

For offices and organizations who need to administer their canteens, cafeterias and all types of food lounges and food courts, Canteen Management Solution, a device with which you can maintain meal records for all the office staff members. With its unique features like:

• Defined items & customized menus.
• Cashless transactions – prepaid and postpaid.
• Configuring food bills with employees id for precised calculations.
• Food planning – reduced food wastage.
• Informative customized reports.

Canteen Management Solution means a BIG YESS to an organized food culture.

Snapshot of our Roller Coaster Journey: StarLink

Star Link India is a leading and pioneer company in Biometrics Attendance System and Access Control Solutions. The main motive of our team is to incorporate the recent technology with our device to make it more efficient. Till now we were presenting you our solutions and devices we have developed as per the trends and requirements. Few of the solutions like Canteen management system linked with Industrial Model with printer; then guard tracking system with industrial model and SMS module are few outstanding state-of-the-art technology. But always question arises in the mind of our clients that how we entered in the industry and what led us to reach at the top of the said industry (Biometrics Attendance System and Access Control Solution). Through this blog, I would let you know the journey we have covered till now to attain such position.

We have entered in the manufacturing industry in 1996, and we started manufacturing the calling equipments. We were the leading manufacturer as well as the first manufacturer of Conference Calling Equipment, which got a boom in the market trend. In 1998, Telecom Department of Government of India approved our product. This was the special achievement as Conference Calling Device from Star Link was the first approved conference device by GOI.

Later in late 2004 we entered in the field of Biometrics Attendance System and with our own research and development team we manufactured devices for attendance system. In 2005, we got the first and a major project at Maruti Suzuki. There we installed, an attendance device with card as a mode of operation. And till now the system at Maruti Suzuki, is running smoothly without any major fault. And, the very next year in 2006 we brought a fingerprint device on the market at lower cost, which brought a kind of revolution in the market.

As the time passed, it was pretty smooth for us to develop devices incorporated with new technologies. In 2008, 32-bit ARM processor was incorporated into our devices for better performance and efficiency. Between 2009-2011, we revived the technologies in our solutions and devices and presented to our clients according to their requirements. In the course of development, we developed LINUX based model with improved quality web interfaces and mail configuration (gmail).

In 2012, we developed the most advanced device, namely BIO-TRACK, a handheld device packed with every feature. It is featured with the touchscreen mode of operation, GPRS fro better connectivity from far off areas, Wi-fi, inbuilt camera and a SIM slot. A lot more advanced features were added to this product to match the client's requirements.

Collaterally, we developed solutions that served the purpose of our clients in a better way. Data capture software was designed to manage the data (fingerprint templates and employee details) of multiple machines with a simple click. Likewise, Star Time Office Software reduced the hassle of managing employees as it helped them to generate 100 types of reports, including late arrivals, over times, holidays, leaves etc, in .xls, .doc and .txt format. Later, Access Control System was designed that helped to control 15 x 8 doors with a single software, which was unique in its own way.

Then, Canteen Management System was developed that helped to reduce the gap between vendors and Management and easy handling of hundreds of employees within minutes.

And the most commendable solution developed is the Tea Garden Solution, which was designed keeping in mind the problems faced by a tea garden owner in his tea garden. This solution helped them to reduce the manipulation and cheating done during the work.

Our most of the software is a web based application, which allows user to use it from any part of the world. It does not require to be installed on systems. It can be used by multiple user at a time.

Simultaneously, working with different level of clients from different industry, we also made some amendments to serve their purpose effectively. We added a feature of Time Zone (or Time Limit) in our solution which limited access in a particular time period, employee wise/ department wise.

Also, incorporated the same in Vending machine to limit the usage employee wise. Car Track management was developed to check the availability of cars on the testing track. This helped to reduce the risk, also it generated the reports including all details.

Also, we made following amendments according to the client's requirements:-

・ Secure enrollment of employee in the machine in remote locations through the central server and voice guided message.

・ Birthday wishes to employees through biometric device.

・ Data transfer through USB, Wi-fi, GPRS.

・ Anti Pass back, to provide authentication door wise and employee wise.

・ Audio messages through different languages.

With the love and support of our esteemed clients, we have been able to reach at top position and achieve milestones. Our customers are the core of our business, and satisfying them is the precondition for our existence. We have been restless in our pursuit of the latest technology, the highest quality and the most user friendly products. We are passionate about exploring the latest that technology has to offer. Since the start, our products have pushed the boundaries of technology. With a uniquely independent R&D capacity, we design, develop, manufacture, market, and sell our products ourselves. We have full control over the entire supply chain, from our factories in the hands of our customers. This way, we can design for the end product in mind and ensure that only the best quality products reach our customers.

Star Link - Serving Clients on Customer Oriented Policy

Till now we have discussed about our technologies used in our devices and solutions. Also, we discussed about our unique solutions that revolutionized the world of biometrics. But this time I am going to throw a light on our one of the major projects accomplished in our blooming days in 2009, when Biometrics Attendance System was germinating and spreading its roots in India. The project was done in YAMAHA India at Surajpur.

YAMAHA wanted to streamline their employees at work stations. Since the strength of workers is very large, it was very difficult and hectic to manage them. Due to the mismanagement of employees, they were facing administrative losses, financial losses and time losses. So, they wanted desperately to establish any system in their company premises, which can reduce all their losses and streamline the work force easily. In concern about this, they contacted Star Link India to provide a solution and system according to their requirements. And YES! We installed devices, according to their requirement, doing all possible customizations to fit their work criteria. And it's been almost 6 years and everything is running smoothly and flawlessly.

We have provided a card to each employee, including their Date of Joining, Date of birth. The card was unique to each employee, which was used to mark their attendance. If any employee misses his/her card, then his previous card is blocked.

But, one of the major problems they faced was that, it was uncertain for them or a time consuming task finding the number of workers present at the work station in a particular department. So the production delayed as casual workers were having to take place of absent employees. Until and unless the exact number of designated workers are not present, they cannot start the line; this created a lot of problem and LOSSes as well.

Star Link India installed device with 25000 finger templates, to record the attendance of the employees. And, within 3 minutes of the start of the shift, a report of absent employees is generated. This helped them to designate the casual workers without any delay in starting work on the production line. The generation of the report in 3 minutes helped them to reduce the losses, which they faced earlier due to delay in starting work.

Then we did customizations in our devices to fulfill the requirement of YAMAHA, and that changes were commendable in 2009. Almost none of the companies were providing any kind of such customized features, but we did. Following are the few major customizations done in our devices to resolve their persisting issues:-

・ If any group of employees were late for a certain indispensable reason, then we introduced an option of REASON, which included different types of reasons like bus late, heavy traffic, weather problem or others.

・ An error report is generated which shows the reject list of the employees who attempted to enter without having their name in the card list. You can say in other words, a report is generated by employees who attempt unauthorized entry.

・ The validity of the cards of the employees was designated for a certain period of time for particular type of workers.

・ Other customization done was, Finger BY-PASS. The by-pass was done to reduce the chaos of the employees. For an instance, if the number of employees increases at any time, then finger bypass is done and employees are allowed to get the authentication, through showing cards only, irrespective of card and finger both. This took less time and helped to wash out the crowd of employees easily in less time.

・ When new employees are registered, the masking is done on every machine at a single click.

・ Also, when any employee is deleted, it can deleted from every machine with a single click. Multiple employee/ Multiple machine addition or deletion option is there.

・ Whenever any new machine is replaced by an older one, the masking is done easily without any hassle.

・ To reduce the manual punching, the machine is restricted to accept the manual punching.

・ And one of the interesting feature is that machine wishes HAPPY BIRTH DAY to a particular employee on his particular birth date.

・ Multiple card entry at a single time is prohibited, as employees used to do proxy punching by showing multiple card. This has been done by fixing a time interval between 2 card punching.

Additionally, many other customizations have been done at certain levels of requirement. But these were unique in 2008. After passage of time, we also installed 8 door access control in YAMAHA India and coffee vending machine solution is installed, which limited the usage according to the level of employee. And also our machines are installed in YAMAHA, Chennai.

At last, I want to acclaim that StarLink India always focused on customer oriented service delivery. We are always ready for customization our machines and solution according to the requirement of the clients, not only YAMAHA but we did this for many other clients. But since it was done in that time, when it was considered as a commendable task to accomplish. Now, for many of the clients, StarLink has become a reliable source of the biometric attendance system and access control solutions. So in a nutshell, if you are also looking to manage and streamline the workforce at your office premises, STAR LINK INDIA is the best service provider. Think upon, choice is yours!!

Manage Canteen with Canteen Management System - No Chaos, No Long Lines

Yet another masterpiece from Star Link's Solutions that can help you to ease the work structure. Keeping in mind about many complexity related to managing and controlling employees in Canteen area, Star Link has designed Canteen Management System, which is a perfect solution for you to manage the canteen facilities for employee.

How it is useful:-

Canteen Management System is a perfect solution designed for set-ups that offers dining facility in their canteen. Canteen Management System helps to work the dining facility seamlessly without any hassle. It restricts the unauthorized usage of canteen facility. This software helps to automate the process and make it transparent. It reduces the chaos created during the lunch or dinner timing, helping to manage the service swiftly.

Working Process:-

Canteen Management works through Star Link device, which is linked with this software to generate the reports of the employee. Employee place their card for authentication, after that a coupon is generated from the machine itself, that can be used for placement of order. There are two ways that it can be operated which can stop multiple placement of order. First one is, Online Operation through software,  in this process once the employee processes his/her order, then his identity and other details are authenticated by the software and then order is placed and thus receipt is generated. No employee can place multiple order. Other one is, Smart Card Authentication, in this process, an employee has to authenticate by their smart card which includes their details and thus their order will be placed.

Online Operation Through Software

Fingerprint & Smart Card Authentication

     

The Canteen Management System can be operated in set-ups with different types of order placement related to items or quantity. They are as follows:-

1. First type of order that can be placed is: item wise and quantity wise, in which user can place the order according to their wish without any bar of quantity and item.
2. Second option for order placement is that quantity of any item will be fixed only you have to enter the item.
3. Third option for order placement is that the quantity and item is fixed according to the time setting. Suppose if it is noon, then lunch will be served or if it is evening then tea with snacks will be served (depending on the policy of the company).

Looking, at above features you must think about its usage and how it is beneficial for your set-up to bring the transparency and flawlessly managing the employee for canteen facility. Canteen Management from Star Link is really a good choice for you.