Helping Manufacturers Stay on Track

Manufacturing firms often employ dozens or even hundreds of machines and tools to make their products. And just like the different mileage checkups that you perform on your car, each of these machines and tools requires periodic maintenance ranging from simple lubrication to a complete overhaul. How can these companies know when it is time to perform an "oil change" on a machine? One way is to keep reams of paper records. A far better way is to fire up Tool-Track, a new database system from SRI Ltd.

Machine and Tool Maintenance Tracking
Tool-Track is a user friendly Windows based application for tracking maintenance, repair histories and costs, revision levels, and Engineering Change Numbers (ECN) for molds, presses, or virtually any other tools or machines used on the manufacturing floor. Designed for users with little or no computer experience, Tool-Track allows the shop maintenance or engineering staff to determine which machines and tools are due for maintenance, the type of maintenance to be performed, and the estimated time and cost to perform the maintenance. Over 1,000 machine and tool records can be accommodated, each having a unique maintenance schedule or program. Tool-Track also provides status information on all of the currently running jobs for each machine and tool, including the hours and cycles left to complete the current jobs. Shop personnel can compare the projected job end date with the time remaining before the next required maintenance, and can make scheduling and staffing decisions accordingly.

Automatic Updating
One key to Tool-Track's unique features is its ability to interface with real time production monitoring systems, such as those marketed by Oxbridge Information Systems, Mattec, or Plantstar. In this way the running hours, cycles and job end data can be updated automatically, providing an up to the minute assessment of impending maintenance deadlines. Where no real time production system is available, shift end data can be input manually, or by using an ASCII file generated by a text editor or spreadsheet program.

Repair Histories and Inventory
In addition to maintenance, Tool-Track allows the user to track tool and machine repairs and changes to revision levels or ECNs. Labor, materials, and vendor costs can be input for each tool or machine repair. Parts used on repairs or maintenance are automatically decremented from the parts inventory. Tool-Track then provides reports summarizing repair costs for each tool or machine. Repair costs can also be summarized over the entire lifetime of a tool, covering all revision and ECN levels. These detailed analyses identify abnormally high repair costs by revision level or outside vendor.

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