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- Tool & Die Management
- Who it's for
- Shared maintenance toolrooms
Shared maintenance toolrooms
A shared toolroom may receive maintenance requests from different parts of the shop while relying on the same technicians and spare parts. Tool & Die Management makes the asset, assigned person and due date visible with the work request. Maintenance Manager can follow the current state and focus review on the evidence needed to complete that specific job.
How Tool & Die Management is set up for you
Assigned responsibility
Map technicians to their person and user records so assigned maintenance reaches the correct individual. Agree how a changed assignment is communicated before the tool moves to another bench.
Permit timing
Keep the permit type, issuer and validity interval connected to the work. Review delayed starts with Maintenance Manager so an old approval is not mistaken for current authorization.
Bench evidence
Technician records actual work intervals, consumed parts and any relevant cycle or sharpening submission. Maintenance Reviewer can examine specialty outcomes while Maintenance Manager coordinates the overall maintenance handoff.
Follow-up ownership
Review the next due date in service history and decide who initiates another request. Keep the completed outcome available for the technician handling the next maintenance event.
A shared toolroom may receive maintenance requests from different parts of the shop while relying on the same technicians and spare parts. Tool & Die Management makes the asset, assigned person and due date visible with the work request. Maintenance Manager can follow the current state and focus review on the evidence needed to complete that specific job.
Select a tool that passes through the shared bench and use a maintenance request with a clear due date. Rehearse assignment, permit approval where required and work start. Delay the start beyond the permit interval and confirm the path back for a new decision. Complete the successful case with a work description that another Technician can understand without contacting the original operator.
Use [work orders](/tool-die-management/modules/work-orders) for the operating handoff and [service history](/tool-die-management/modules/service-history) for follow-up review. If the team needs capacity planning or purchasing exchange, agree those connections during [implementation](/tool-die-management/implementation) with the owners of the relevant systems.
Features to start with
Work orders
Give maintenance a defined scope, assigned technician and due date, then carry the work through authorization and completion.
Safety permits
Connect permit approval and its validity interval to the work order before maintenance starts.
Service history
Retain the completed maintenance outcome and next due date against the tool and its work order.
Roles on the team
- Maintenance Manager
- Owns maintenance setup, planning and assigned operational work.
- Technician
- Captures assigned maintenance work and evidence.
- Maintenance Reviewer
- Reviews evidence and authorizes eligible domain outcomes.
- Admin
- Proposed setup role for maintaining user mappings and administering the agreed configuration without substituting for operational approval.
- Safety Permit Issuer
- Proposed delegated role for the permit-approval responsibility in work authorization, subject to explicit configuration and eligible workflow access.
Set up Tool & Die Management your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.