Kaba Workforce Solutions Improves Workforce Management Practices for Worldwide Manufacturer of Highway Safety Devices


Energy Absorption Systems Implements State-of-the-Art Labor Tracking Efficiencies

MIRAMAR, Florida, December 12, 2007 - Kaba Workforce Solutions, the North American operating subsidiary of Kaba Holding AG, Switzerland (SWISS: KABN), the worldwide leader in enterprise workforce management systems today announced that Energy Absorption Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of highway crash cushions and other highway safety devices, selected its premium workforce management technology, KABA's AutoTime solution, to augment the company's PeopleSoft enterprise system.

Based in Chicago, Illinois, Energy Absorption Systems, a subsidiary of Quixote Corporation, (NASDAQ:QUIX), has operations throughout the United States and produces fourteen basic product lines that are used for impact protection safety in over sixty countries worldwide. The company has operations nationwide including an aggressive research, development and testing facility in Rocklin, California and manufacturing facilities in Alabama.

The company selected Kaba manufactured Time and Attendance terminals along with Kaba Workforce Solutions' AutoTime workforce management technology to compliment its PeopleSoft Enterprise management system. Currently, over three hundred hourly and salaried employees use Kaba's technology for time and attendance clocking and labor data collection allowing for highly efficient, analytic data.

"The two-way interface between AutoTime to PeopleSoft and ADP has offered us significant efficiencies and savings. Prior to implementing Kaba's technologies, we were using a manual punch card process and payroll had to hand key the information into ADP," explains Eric Smith, Controller for Energy Absorption System's manufacturing plant in Alabama. "Also, by automating the collection of labor data, we can now compare standard labor times to actual times in order to more accurately measure direct labor efficiencies. This gives management highly accurate data for superior decision making."

AutoTime is the leading workforce management solution for companies whose enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms are industry standards such as SAP, Oracle / PeopleSoft, Microsoft, Cincom Manufacturing Business Solutions and more. The technology's management benefits include time and attendance, labor data collection, labor costing and analytics and its component-based design allows for scalability and conformity for easy integration with ERP's. It automatically calculates, analyzes and reports the hours and costs of payroll for environments with complex work and pay rules and is extremely configurable and effectively date-driven so when policies change, the software does not have to be rewritten to accommodate the changes. In addition, AutoTime is designed to be highly user-friendly with intuitive and streamlined time clocks and web time cards.

The technology also offers an automated scheduling option for real-time rule based, demand driven workforce scheduling providing the capability to automatically manage the resource plan (schedule), by aligning demands with employee qualifications, availability, productivity, and preferences while controlling excess overtime. The scheduling component's intuitive interface connects front-line managers with enterprise decision-makers, allowing for fast and consistent implementation of strategic staffing solutions.

About Kaba Workforce Solutions

Kaba Benzing America, Inc. DBA Kaba Workforce Solutions is a wholly-owned operating subsidiary of publicly listed CHF1.2B Kaba Holding AG, Switzerland (SWISS: KABN), a global provider of enterprise workforce management and access control solutions with a focus on time and attendance, workforce scheduling, data visualization and analytics, regulatory compliance, employee self-service and fixed / mobile data collection solutions for SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle / PeopleSoft, Cincom Manufacturing Business Solutions and other leading enterprise-class business systems. Clients include such industry leaders as Kraft Foods, Schneider Electric, BMW General Electric and Goodrich Corporation, amongst others. Kaba may be contacted in North America at (954) 416-1720 or at www.kaba-benzing-usa.com.

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