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Predator Tool Crib Overview

What is Predator Tool Crib?

Predator Tool Crib is a software application that creates, organizes, and manages tools, cutters, inserts and tool assemblies electronically. With the motto "You can only improve what you organize," Predator Tool Crib helps improve manufacturing processes by empowering tool room personnel, shop floor personnel, engineers and management with an automated, interactive method of tool management that runs 24x7x365.

Predator Tool Crib provides real-time answers to a manufacturer's toughest questions, including:

• What tools do we already have?
• Where is all of our tooling?
• How much disposable tooling are we consuming?
• How many tools, cutters and inserts do we need to order?
• Who is accountable for lost, broken and scrapped tooling?
• What tools are used for specific part numbers or materials?
• What tools need to be re-certified for use?

Answers to all of the above can be solved with Predator Tool Crib and displayed from any PC with the ability to drill down to any level of detail at any of your manufacturing facilities. For example, a manufacturing engineer in the United States can query the status of tooling in Mexico and find out the current inventory of tools and then plan an improved method to be rolled out in the next three months. Details are kept indefinitely and current tool crib activities or tooling statuses can be compared with previous methods or practices. Real-time tooling answers leveraged against actual production history of tool usage are becoming critical as enterprises rely more on their engineering and manufacturing resources as they go global. Answers based on actual tooling details facilitate faster decisions and increase productivity for every manufacturer.