A press stops because the die that should be on it is at a vendor, or has run past its maintenance shot count. We build the tool tracking system for manufacturing that holds every die, mould and fixture by location, custody, actual shots run and maintenance due date.
High-temperature, oil-resistant RFID and marked identities selected and trialled on your own tools first.
Cycle counts taken from the press or moulding machine signal, not from a logbook filled later.
Preventive maintenance triggered at actual shot thresholds, not on a calendar date nobody trusts.
Track location, custody, usage, maintenance history and tool cost from one connected system.
A complete tool control capability - identification, custody, usage capture, maintenance triggering and costing - engineered for press shops, moulding units and machining plants, and supported after commissioning.
Technology choice here is decided by the environment. We survey the shop floor, the tool store and the vendor route before selecting tags, readers or marking method.
Representative outcomes from tool-intensive manufacturing deployments. Figures are indicative ranges and must be confirmed against your own baseline before publication.
Measures agreed with the tool room head, maintenance head and plant manager at design sign-off, then reported from day one.
Every deployment starts with a site survey, because tagging decisions taken on paper fail in a press shop.
We inventory the tool population, examine mounting surfaces and operating temperatures, and document your issue, return, maintenance and vendor processes as actually run.
Tag types are mounted on representative tools and run in live conditions, then reader placement, workflows and thresholds are signed off before bulk procurement.
One line or tool family is tagged and tracked end to end against acceptance criteria, including shot capture from the machine and a full changeover cycle.
The remaining tool population is tagged in planned batches, the tool room team is trained, and the system moves into an agreed AMC covering tags and readers.
Why tool room and maintenance heads choose an engineered tracking system rather than an off-the-shelf RFID kit.
It gives every die, mould, fixture and gauge in a plant a permanent machine-readable identity, then records what happens to it. Location and custody are captured as the tool moves between the tool store, the machine, the maintenance bay and outside vendors. Usage is captured as actual shots or cycles from the machine it runs on, maintenance is triggered from that measured usage, and cost per part comes from the tool's own life and refurbishment history.
It is custom-built. We are a solution development and systems integration company, not a hardware reseller. The tagging scheme, reader layout, workflows and maintenance thresholds are engineered after a tool room survey.
The right tags will, and choosing them is the core of the site survey. We use metal-mount high-temperature UHF tags fitted in a machined pocket, bolted bracket or protected recess, then trial them in live production.
From the machine, not from a logbook. The press or moulding machine cycle signal is read through its PLC or a retrofitted proximity sensor, and the mounted tool is bound to it by an RFID read.
Yes. Tools leaving the plant for sharpening, repair or refurbishment move out on a system-raised gate pass, custody transfers to that vendor, and ageing runs against the promised turnaround so overdue tools are flagged early.
Yes. Tags, fixed readers, portals, antennas, handheld terminals and marking equipment are scoped, supplied, installed and commissioned as part of the project, including physical tag mounting on the tool population and machine-side integration.
Yes. We integrate with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Navision, Tally and existing CMMS modules, so tool masters, work orders, spare consumption and cost data stay consistent rather than maintained twice.
Either. On-premise, private cloud and hybrid deployments are all supported, and the reader and machine integration layer buffers locally, so tool movement and shot counts keep recording if the plant network drops.
A pilot on one press line or tool family is typically commissioned within eight to twelve weeks of requirement sign-off, including the tag survivability trial. Full tagging then runs in planned batches.
Support runs under an agreed AMC covering defined response times by severity, preventive maintenance of readers and antennas, replacement tagging for damaged or new tools, and machine interface support as the tool population changes.