Tool Management – More Than Just Tool Management

Modern tool management encompasses numerous aspects—it involves tool data management, storage, transportation, and ordering of tools and tool components, but above all, it’s about one thing: more effective, improved work processes.

With a good tool management system, you have a clear view of and control over every phase of your tools’ lifecycle—and you can decide for yourself the level of detail and complexity at which you want to maintain that overview.

Tool management, for example, involves centrally entering and managing all tools and tool components. This allows you to gain and maintain an overview of your tools and components, as well as optimize your inventory, plan and check tool usage—and order new tools and components at exactly the right time, just-in-time.

With the right software, you gain full transparency into how and where your tools are being used—across the entire process chain. This also means better cost control, optimized workflows, and more effective use of your tools.

Tool management also means that all tool data is managed centrally and, ideally, transferred directly to your CAM systems via suitable interfaces. This simplifies and shortens the setup process, making the set up of your tools faster and more reliable.

ZOLLER's modular TMS Tool Management Solutions software offers all the functions and interfaces you would expect from modern tool management software.

Perfectly organized

Enter all individual components, complete tools, and setup sheets in a central database.

Lossless Interfaces

With numerous interfaces, you can integrate the ZOLLER-TMS with your CAM systems—the error-free digital transmission of tool data saves time, hassle, and money.

stock management

Everything lies in its place—with ZOLLER-TMS, you always know exactly where your components and tools are. At the same time, this allows you to keep track of your stock levels in an efficient manner.

Tool Monitoring

Centralize quality control and wear analysis in one place, check your tool usage, and generate statistics on individual orders and your costs.

Transparency and Effectiveness

Integrate your management processes with your ordering processes to ensure you always order exactly what you need, right on time. Identify problems in the production process and ensure smooth operations.

Modern tool logistics is actually unthinkable without the management software that corresponds to its needs. With the right program, you can ensure that tools are available for every work step, and the time-consuming search for tools is a thing of the past. That’s because your tool list will then also indicate where each individual part is located—and if you wish, you can use Smart Cabinets, intelligent storage cabinets, to ensure that everything is truly in its place.

Tool Data Always Ready

But tool management is much more than just tool storage: The system always has the appropriate tool data or tool presets available and enables fast, error-free transmission to your tooling systems or presetting device. This prevents errors, reduces scrap, and speeds up work processes.

Whether you’re using cutting tools (we usually refer to them as “machining tools,” but if “cutting tools” is better from an SEO perspective, you can use that term as well) or devices from an entirely different tool class: There is certainly still room for improvement in your logistics—are there possible options for optimization, perhaps in tool dispensing, the storage system, or the tool database you use for usage?