Tool Room - Module Overview

Tool Room module covers manufacture, usage, and maintenance of tools, dies, and fixtures.

It offers following functionality

• Manufacture – manufacture of a new tool as initiated through work order. The work order gives    material requisition, technical information, and process details. Material issue and production records    are entered against the work order to know resources consumed on making of the tool. This also    gives cost of tool as material cost plus operation cost based on standard machine hour rate.Other    direct costs on activities like design etc can be added directly.

• Facility to procure tools directly from supplier.

• Possibility of customer supplying tools.

• Usage of tools in production operations. Tools master gives details of product, machines, and    operations where tool is used. It also gives norms for usage.

• Recording of actual tool usage through daily production records. This data gives history of usage in    terms of machine, operation, product, operator, and time.

• Maintenance of tools: Tools can have preventive maintenance schedule, and can undergo    preventive, breakdown, and opportunity maintenance. This follows through transactions of    maintenance module. History of repair, maintenance, and re-dimensioning can be known from these    records. Cost of maintenance incurred is calculated based on material, operations, and maintenance    overheads. Costs incurred on tools in manufacture and maintenance should be linked to operation    costs to load them on products.

• On-line information of tools and tool inventory and tool availability as such that is used by planning    department.