Industrial attendance management system

Abstract

Industrial attendance management system is a software application that is developed for Zimbabwe Power Company Bulawayo Power Station to allow employees to log in and out of the organisation and also calculate their overtime automatically. The problem that arose with the current system was the difficulty in handling employee clock in details manually. The developed system overcomes the problems that were associated with the current manual system such as too much bottlenecks. In-house development was chosen as the best alternative to introduce this system in the organisation. Feasibility analysis was carried out in terms of social, economic and technical aspects to see whether developing the system is a viable decision. Interviews, questionnaires, observations and document review were the information gathering methodologies that were used to identify the problems of the current system. Tools that were used in developing the system are Php, Dreamweaver and MySQL. Adaptive maintenance was chosen because it allows the system to adapt to environmental changes of the software and hardware. Implementation strategy used in implementing the system is the pilot changeover strategy since it is less risky compared to other changeover strategies. For the future recommendations, the system must be developed further for it to be used in all power stations and have a server for the system that will manage all power stations employee activities.