The Challenge:

Managing the life cycle of all the tools used in your manufacturing operations is a major challenge with constant tool and die changes and your tools and dies being spread among various plants and facilities. You must be able to quickly find the status of a tool, determine life left in tool and plan on any needed maintenance. Failure to manage the tool lifecycle can lead to tool failures and interruptions in production. You must keep track of the cost of tools and ongoing maintenance cost for external and internal repairs.
Tools in all plants and facilities must be managed seamlessly as owned by single entity.

· Are you currently able to find what stage a tool is in its lifecycle?

· Are you able to find the total cost of a tool to date including external and internal repairs?

· Are you able to predict when the tool is due for preventive maintenance, notify the plant manager or supervisor ahead of time?

The Solution: Our Manufacturing Tool Management system

The manufacturing tool management system with built in workflow keeps track of all your tools with all the relevant information. When a tool is worked on internally or externally, you can keep track of the cost (external/internal), hours and resources spent on tool. You are able to keep track of life left in each tool and notify the plant managers by email of required preventive maintenance or tool change, minimizing the impact to production. You are able to keep track of tools associated with plants, process, production parts and customers. Our MTM integrates seamlessly with your enterprise mail system for notification of staff members, minimizing the time it takes for the work to be completed.