Smart Upgrade: How to Enhance Efficiency in Tool Management

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Smart Upgrade: How to Enhance Efficiency in Tool Management

Traditional tool management is mostly by manual. In recent years, there are many intelligent management methods, which can simplify the process, reduce the cost of labor and time, and optimize the tool and process. Consequently, understanding the basic information of tool management will be helpful to lead in Cutting tool management.

Introduction

What is Cutting tools management?

Tool management is very important for enterprises and can effectively control costs as well. Cutting tool management refers to the general term for the management of tools used in machine manufacturing or other related activities, including tool wear, adjustment, inventory management, new tool planning, tool optimization and procurement, etc.

Cutting tools can be said to be the "teeth" of metal processing. Although they seem to be strong, if they are not properly protected or used excessively, they will also cause damage. The purpose of tool management is to ensure that the factory has sufficient quantity of tools which meet the requirements, also can adjust and test from it, which not only saves costs, but also maximizes benefits.

Problems with traditional Cutting tools management

Traditional tool management is to count, receive, record, select and store tools through manual registration, which not only requires manpower to implement each business, but also consumes a lot of time on too many processes, resulting in the inability to improve efficiency. Here are a few common questions:

1.The tool needs to be signed by both manager and supervisor before receiving it.

2. It is kept in the tool warehouse in a unified manner, and it is also kept by a special person when it arrives in the workshop. If the management personnel cannot be found when the shift is to be handed over, additional time costs will be incurred.

3. It is necessary to hire a person specializing in the managing the tools for paper records or input to the ERP system.

4. Spare tools must be prepared, and the amount cannot be systematically managed. Moreover, the information between each single point and department is easily confused, and there is often a problem of waste.

5. If the on-site personnel are not clear about how to choose the tools, they need to go through the catalog or check the table repeatedly, which is easy to waste a lot of time.

6. On-site processing is to strive for the utilization rate and convenient operation. The tool is often used for other purposes or unreasonably reimbursed and the behavior which exceeds the management standard. For a long time, the system has a lot of error messages, and the management fails.

7. It is difficult to analyze the causes of comprehensive inter-departmental with management data, and it is impossible to effectively save procurement costs and improve production efficiency. If it is to be fully considered, it will be subject to the complicated SOP procedures and a lot of manpower to maintain detailed records and correctness of tool data. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Why it is necessary to have intelligent tool management?

The tool is an important part of the cutting process, and it is also an expensive resource, and the characteristics of each cutting tool and machine tool are different. If only monitoring and adjusting inventory manually, it is not only time-consuming, but also impossible to achieve the benefits of non-stop, and intelligent tool management can use fewer resources to give the machine tool the right tool at the right time. The following are several benefits brought by tool management:

1. Reduce costs: Through tool management, tools can be correctly selected and recorded according to the managing of the tools, which not only reduces manpower control, but also the cost of errors caused by manual recording.

2. Inventory management: Real-time management of the number of tools, from which the frequency of use of the tools and the tools that are really needed can be known, thereby reducing the cost caused by waste and shortage.

3. Increase productivity: After optimization, the processing time can be reduced, and the characteristics of each machine tool can be effectively utilized to match the most suitable tools, thereby increasing the productivity, and improving the processing quality.

4. Advancement organization: Through tool management, manpower can be allocated to businesses that require more decision-making, and the organization can be integrated to make workers more efficient.

The function of smart tool management

Smart tool management mainly uses information management methods such as RFID or QR code. The basic functions include tool storage management, order management, production management, system maintenance, etc., and some will add different functions according to different needs, such as recording tool detection or cost calculation, etc.

In order to allow enterprises to better understand the situation of using cutting tools, many functional branches are subdivided and to further manage cutting tools and provide good assistance.

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