Automated Time Clocks
You Can Easily Manage Working Times with the One

Date：20, Aug, 2013
Investigated and Written by Misaka Youhei
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Do you think of the clocks that belong to walls of your rooms, or wristwatches when you hear the timepieces? But they are not all. As you have experienced, we workers in Japan are managed by time clocks. It is just for verifying how long we have worked and could be called as a kind of clocks.

In America of nineteenth century, they developed the first time clock in the world. Though they whittled away the time on paper tapes, the initial clocks made the wages management efficient so epoch-making.

Amano Shuichi developed the first electrical time clock in Japan, which typed out with the warren motor. The first step of Japanese time recorders was it in 1931. Since the then prime minister ; Hamaguchi Osachi had placed a premium on it, time clocks and time cards had immediately spread all over offices and factories in Japan.

Now, he Amano Shuichi established AMANO Corporation. If you have never heard the name, please see some time clocks in Japan or look at automated pay stations at the exit of Japanese parking areas. It has a high probability to find AMANO. Like that, they have held the largest market share in Japan exclusively.

Some have lately used employee ID cards including IC chips, not time cards, for the attendance management. Most offices still use orthodox time recorders in Japan because they cannot severally publish ID cards with IC chips for temporary part-timer staffs.

Automated Time Clocks, that is what we would like to introduce especially among orthodox time recorders released by AMANO. Without PC, it adds up working hours and overtime automatically. Moreover you can separately institute by type of employment. If you try to put universal time clocks, you cannot ignore Automated Time Clocks of AMANO.