Tool identification and traceability solutions

Metal tools are subject to intensive use throughout their life cycle, which means that marking must be carried out in such a way as to withstand the harsh working environment in which they are used. These tools have a value, which you want to protect. As a supplier of tools and equipment, you need to guarantee the highest quality, while complying with current identification standards. There are several challenges for the identification of tools and equipment:

• Management of the tool park
• Simplification of inventories: Tool traceability management systems have become an essential tool for tool park inventory organisations. Indeed, in industrial companies equipped with a production or assembly workshop, there are hundreds of tools per shift, per operator, which can, unfortunately, be misplaced. A good marked tool is a traced tool.
• Monitoring and management of tool maintenance : Tools are very often brought in for repair, re -sharpening or replacement. A good tool identification allows a continuous follow -up of the maintenance of the tools but also to set up preventive maintenance of the tools. Thanks to the identification of tools you can know when it has been repaired, resharpened and thus plan a future repair. It’s good management of repair flows 
• Reducing expenses / Avoiding tool theft: Tools have a significant cost and the loss of a tool can result in unexpected expenses. Tool identification helps to avoid loss or theft of tools. Each tool can be carefully identified with the name of the operator to whom it belongs. Our marking systems help to reduce expenses against theft, loss and damage.

• Checking of tools before and after use: Good implementation of a tool traceability system allows a complete follow -up of their use and return. A lost or forgotten tool can quickly become a problem that the permanent identification of your tools can quickly solve

For all these reasons, you need to continuously identify your tools and equipment so that you can trace them throughout their life cycle. It is a question of quality, efficiency, cost reduction and compliance with standards.

Do you need a versatile solution for every shape and material?

Aware that the implementation of a tool and equipment traceability system is an important issue for these manufacturers and that it represents an investment, Gravotech supplies turnkey marking stations using different technologies for small and medium series marking with controlled costs. You will mark everything, in batches or individually, with our powerful and very easy to use solutions. With them, you can mark any date, brand, logo, serial number, identifier, or special code directly and permanently on your equipment, in text or 2D coded format.