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Tooling is an important and expensive part of any manufacturing enterprise. An application-based tool management system was developed for a machining company that had a total expenditure of over a million dollars per annum on tooling alone. The system was developed on a relational database system available on a PC network. All different types of tools, their cost, supplier location of the tooling, and other relevant information were built into the system for management to make the right decisions on tooling. The paper gives an overview of the tooling system and describes the individual modules and their interrelationships, including some of the important files. It also describes how the system helps the company controlling tool costs and inventory.
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Narang, R.V. (1997). A computer model for tool management information system. In: Plonka, F., Olling, G. (eds) Computer Applications in Production and Engineering. CAPE 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35291-6_18
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