It's 8:00 a.m. Do You Know Where Your Tools Are?
That Answer Could Be Costing You Thousands!
How much are you spending each year on lost tools, excess repair costs or certification tasks? How much is search time costing your operations? If an audit requests an immediate history and location of all certified instruments, could you produce one?
It's Time To Take Control
With SupplyPro, you can easily transition away from peg-board or open access methods that leave hundreds of assets and tools without control or accountability.
SupplyPro's Tool Management Delivers:
- Secured control for a diverse set of tools
- Accountability for expensive, easily misplaced tools
- Increased productivity by reducing time spent searching for tools
- Audit trails for calibration management and a complete history of activity by user, job, department, etc.
- Automated overdue alerts and reporting
- Visibility from any Web-enabled device to available tools, locked down tools, tools past defined inspection criteria, current users with tools checked out, etc.
- And much much more!
SupplyPro Provides Easy Management of Tools and Shared Materials:
- Calibrated tools and instruments
- Hand and power tools
- Tool sets
- Maintenance parts and critical spares
- Radios
- Laptops
- Keys
- Fixtures and tool holders
- Gauges
- Scanners
- Lanyards
- Respirators
- Specialty Tools
- Electrical Tools
- Rechargeable Items
Key Devices for Tool Management
SmartDrawer
SupplyLocker
Know Where Expensive, Mission Critical Tools Are At All Times
Check-In and Check-Out Tool Management
Tools used in the manufacturing process are ideal candidates for management within a SupplyPro system. Typically these items require greater control and different business rules to manage than traditional consumable applications (gloves, abrasives, batteries, inserts, etc.)
With SupplyPro, our clients define the appropriate business rules per product, based on individual requirements. Standard programmable features include:
- Variable loan periods
- Overdue tool alerts
- User initiated and automated lockdown of damaged or "aged" tools and automated alert notification
- Visibility at the machine to who has tools checked out if none are available
- Specific reports related to Check-in/Check-out activity
- Access rights to tools and assets per user
- Forced-Return feature
Manage Calibration and Serialization
In addition to the standard check-in/check-out features noted above, added business rules and reports are available for tools and assets that are defined as serialized items. Additional features include:
- Automatically "age" and lock-down tools based on number of uses, days, due date – or an combination thereof
- Automated alert notification when a tool has reached a defined calibration setting
- Dedicated compartment for serial item check-in
- A full audit history by asset and user
Reports and Alerts
Standard reports and alerts designed for tool management are available to authorized individuals from any web-enabled device as well as through the Automated Report Scheduler from the SupplyPort.
Specific reports designed to manage tool and asset applications include:
- Check Out Report – see who has all currently checked out products from any or all devices
- Lockdown Report – shows all tools currently in stock but locked down either due to an aging condition reached or user initiation
- Serial Number History Report – immediately retrieve a full history for auditing by user, stock location, job, etc.
- Calibration Due Report – identify items within certain days of reaching the defined aging rule
- And many more!
Many Industries Are Already Saving with Tool Management from SupplyPro
Implementation of our systems for tool management has resulted in dramatically reduced replacement costs and improved time for maintenance turnarounds!
- Lower tool replacement & repair costs
- Stop access to unauthorized departments and 3rd-party contractors
- Control tools with take-home appeal
- Less machine down-time
- Immediate access and visibility to tool location
- Increased compliance levels
- "Right tool for the job"
- Automated lockdown for inspection
- Fewer quantities required on manufacturing floor
- Controlled access and sharing across shifts drive down number of tools required and available to the floor
Easy to Use Interface
Operators on the floor will find SupplyPro fast and easy to use for checking in and out products. The user interface can be customized through standard screen options.
- If item is serialized, user can easily enter serial number on screen or optionally use a hand held scanner to scan information off the tool
- Users can initiate and force lockdown of a tool if damaged
- Speedy Check-In option available from login sequence
- Variable loan periods per product
- Track number of uses for serialized item tool life
- And much more!
Industry Adopters
- Aerospace
- Airlines
- Automotive Dealerships
- Automotive Manufacturing
- Cement
- Energy
- Utilities
- Pharmaceutical
- Secure transaction capture in the event of an Internet failure using “store forward” technology
- Items selected in error can be easily returned
- Servers hosted by AT&T at their regional operations center
- Plug and Go technology!
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