Transparent Reporting with ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions
To maintain a clear overview of a large stock of tools, measuring instruments, and testing equipment at all times and to reliably plan their use in production, technical and administrative staff require continuously updated information. This can be achieved with ZOLLER’s reporting service. Selectable data from a wide range of modules within the ZOLLER Tool Management Solutions software is entered at programmable intervals and output in various data formats. Robin Bender, project manager for the ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions software, comments: “Our ZOLLER Reporting Service is simple and flexible to configure. Data output can be customized to meet individual requirements, ensuring it is exactly tailored to specific needs and process requirements. This allows manufacturing companies to choose whether reports are output at set intervals or triggered by events. The latter applies, for example, to the minimum stock level in the stock management software module. When the programmed event occurs, the designated individuals and locations receive reports and lists in the selected format.”
A Reliable Data Foundation for Optimization
The information provided by the reporting service serves more than just transparency. As Robin Bender emphasizes, it is particularly well-suited for specifically optimizing individual processes in manufacturing facilities. This applies, for example, to tables generated at regular intervals that specify minimum inventory levels, quantities, and the frequency of tools that are repeatedly procured. A buildup of individual tool stocks can be quickly detected from this data. On the one hand, this can lead to the optimization of stock levels and minimum order quantities—and thus logistics. For example, companies can benefit from volume discounts.
On the other hand, the regular reports can also help optimize production processes. For example, if individual drilling, turning, or milling tools are procured exceptionally frequently in large quantities, this may indicate above-average wear and tear on the tools during specific machining operations. This provides solid data for technical optimization of these processes to operate much more economically in the future.
Reliably Meet Deadlines
“Manufacturing companies benefit from the reporting service, especially in the application area for measuring and inspection tools,” Robin Bender continues. Measuring and inspection tools must be calibrated at specified intervals. The ZOLLER reporting service makes it much easier to keep track of these schedules. Once programmed, the function automatically generates reports at set intervals—for example, monthly or weekly—that contain the measuring and inspection tools that need to be calibrated. These reports are output to the respective responsible persons and locations and can also be stored centrally as documentation. ZOLLER’s Reporting Service also flexibly generates reports based on individual criteria, such as the type of measuring and inspection tools or their measurement methods. This provides quick and reliable overviews of calibration dates for specified measurement and testing technologies, such as gear measurement equipment or surface measurement instruments.
Flexibly and freely programmable
Robin Bender highlights as an especially important advantage that ZOLLER’s optional reporting service can be flexibly adjusted to specific needs in every respect. This includes the reporting service sending data, for example, via email to designated individuals. The text and text format of the email can be created in advance as a pattern and predefined. Alternatively, reports can be created as tables with freely definable column contents in data formats such as PDF and CSV, among others, and output to selectable data storage locations. The latter includes storage drives on individual computers as well as cloud storage locations (accessible via web addresses).
In addition, individual reports can be configured with specific specifications and triggered as needed to generate specific information. The general specifications can then be saved for subsequent reports and called up as needed.
Automatic Benefits
“Another key ZOLLER advantage of the Reporting Service is that all processes for collecting data, as well as the output of reports, lists, and tables, run automatically in the background without manual intervention,” explains Robin Bender. Selected specialists receive the reports intended for them automatically. This ensures that processes once deemed necessary are carried out reliably and consistently. In addition, the Reporting Service helps to continuously scrutinize, evaluate, and improve internal processes. The automatically generated reports serve as a reminder to use data to repeatedly optimize individual business and technical processes. This proves especially profitable for manufacturing companies, as users of ZOLLER’s Reporting Service confirm after a few months.
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