Tool Administration

Beas is equipped with complete tool administration which is supported in Precalculation and in manufacturing.

Tools can be maintained, variation costs recorded and drawings and documents can be stored.

Tools can be entered and requirements can be administered via the routing.

Note: Tools are currently not supported in post-calculation.

Beas supports the following types of tools:

Field	Meaning
Utility	The simplest type of tools are utilities. These have no imputed costs, do not influence capacity planning, and have no maintenance process. Utilities can be used for example in quality control orders. See QC–inspection plan.
Tool without resource planning	Tools with purchase and maintenance costs but which have no effect on resource planning.
Tools with resource planning	Tools with purchase and maintenance costs, which only exist once, are uniquely defined in tool management, and so are also reserved.
Tools that influence the throughput time	Tools with purchase and maintenance costs, which only exist once, are uniquely defined in tool management, and influence the throughput time of the main work sequence. Any number of tools of this type can be stored per work sequence, but only one such tool can be active at a time. The throughput time (defined in Operation – Tools tab) is transferred to the work sequence once the tool entry is activated.

PATH: Inventory > Tool Administration.

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Tool Management tabs

Important: Data on tools and utilities is stored in the same table. For this reason, utilities and tools must not be given the same ID.

Field descriptions

Field	Description
Tool	Tool name
Description	Description of tool
Drawing number	Drawing number
Active	If tool is active, check box is flagged.
My Tool	Unique tool name
Type	Type of tool
Warehouse location	Warehouse location for the tool.
Capacity planning	If the tool is considered in capacity planning, the check box is active.
Maintenance Info	Information of maintenance work done on the tool.
Locked reason	Reason for tool block.

Functions

Function	Description
Open	Open selected tool entry.
Add	Create new tool.
Remove	Remove selected tool entry.
Duplicate	Create a new tool entry by duplicating the values of the selected tool. A "Copy" pop up window appears to Enter new ID.
Search	Open dialog box to search by Description, Drawing no., Type and ID.