Tool Management Track
Real-time monitoring of tool life, wear, and usage trends.
Maximize Life & Minimize Costs
Tooling is a huge expense, and identifying savings significantly impacts your COGS (in a great way!). Datanomix integrates with your controller to track tool usage, identify upcoming changes, and expose hidden inefficiencies like unplanned downtime, rework, and scrap. Our customer data shows massive improvement opportunities in tooling, translating into significant savings.
With the Tool Management Track, you get real-time visibility into tool performance, predictive maintenance alerts, and data-driven recommendations to reduce costs, prevent unexpected downtime, and keep production running at peak efficiency.
Key Benefits
- Tool Usage
Visualize tool usage over time by part or machine or for tools operated across multiple machines to understand when, where, and how long each tool is utilized. - Tool Life
Datanomix uses your target lives and the average lives before a tool change to assess your tool efficiency. - Upcoming Tool Changes
Simple TV views show Operators what tools need to change next, where, and when! - Tool Cost Per Unit
Enter your tool cost, and Datanomix will assess the cost implications and potential savings from improved tool management. - Capability Study
Shops with highly automated cells can enhance part performance by understanding which tool-cutting sequences operate the fastest and most consistently.
Unmatched Capabilities
Tool Usage
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See tool usage by part number, machine, or individual tool consumption. Analyze how long each tool spends in cycle to reconcile your cutting times, both in aggregate and per tool.
Upcoming tool changes can be broadcasted through Datanomix TV Mode so your operators know what tools must be changed next, where, and when.
Tool Life
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Datanomix visualizes the tool change log for a given job and understands patterns with respect to the number of lives that you can get out of your tools. We know if a tool is being changed too early, and the efficiency of a tool compared against previous job runs.
Cost Per Unit
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Input your cost per tool, and Datanomix leverages your target tool lives and the average lives used before a tool change to determine tool efficiency. See total tooling costs over a period of time, identify when tools were changed too early, and pinpoint opportunities to reduce overall tooling costs.
By quantifying the amount and cost of tooling consumed and comparing that to your uptime hours, we can formulate a cost per uptime hour of tooling! Datanomix can show you monthly, quarterly, or yearly tooling spending, individually or in aggregate.
Capability Study
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Shops with heavily automated cells can optimize part performance by understanding which tool-cutting sequences perform the fastest and most consistently. Once a new part is engineered and you have proven the process by consistently making good parts, the focus can shift to performance improvements around speed and tool-cutting CPK.
By quantifying the amount and cost of tooling consumed and comparing that to your uptime hours, we can formulate a cost per uptime hour of tooling! Datanomix can show you monthly, quarterly, or yearly tooling spending, individually or in aggregate.
Operationalize It
Every day, the team can use the Tool Management Track to gain visibility into tooling efficiency and improve overall operations. When you understand tooling performance, tooling inventory, and where to cut tooling costs, you’ll continuously improve operations.
Engineering
Tool Life & Cost Drivers
Engineers can identify tools that are not achieving their intended tool life and recognize the biggest cost drivers, ultimately optimizing processes to improve performance and reduce costs.
Estimators
Tool Spend & Margin Improvements
Estimators who don’t know the typical tooling spend per part may be eating into margins. Ensure quoted rates cover current tooling costs, and change hourly rates to compensate if needed.
Tool Room
Tool Assembly & Inventory Management
Low inventory won’t slow down production when you know what tools will be changed next and where. Proactively assemble, preset, and deliver tooling or alert procurement of low stock.
Operators
Tool Usage & Changes
Through the Machine Heads Up Display, operators can see their next three tool changes and the remaining time, log tool life issues, or request support when needed.
Extend It with Advanced Analytics
Our turnkey integration with Caron Engineering’s TMAC® and ToolConnect® pulls real-time sensor data from Caron Engineering’s solutions and combines it with real-time analysis from Datanomix to slash inspection time, cutting time, and tooling costs.
Incorporate Tooling CPU Analytics: The Ultimate Cost-Saving Solution
Datanomix and Vallen have teamed up to deliver a groundbreaking solution that gives manufacturers visibility into tool usage and costs for the first time. Tooling CPU Analytics collects tool usage data via the Tool Management Track, along with cost data from Vallen, to automatically calculate your cost per unit (CPU). It suggests tools, methods, and vendors to help reduce costs.
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