Tego Tool Asset Management: The Right Tool, Fully Calibrated and Ready to Work When You Need It The Challenge A plane is grounded with an engine in need of service. Highly skilled technicians are deployed into the field with a set of specialized tools. One of the tools required to complete the job arrives out of calibration so a new one needs to be located and air shipped, all while the plane sits idle and the airline loses additional revenue.dustries have not been able to harness the benefit of radio-frequency. Scope of the Problem Each industry has some variant of the same problem: complex machinery needs field service. In this aerospace example, with tens of millions of dollars’ worth of tools and assembly kits being shuttled among a global network of facilities and third-party calibration sites, maintaining accurate and up-to-date information about each individual tool becomes incredibly complex. Current inventory management and maintenance tracking software systems capture some warehouse information but only within a single site, leaving out the visibility, access and control needed when tools themselves move between facilities and from job to job in the field. Simple missteps balloon into lost revenue and can amount to significant risks for noncompliance with safety and quality standards. Other failures in tool management processes include: • No record of a tool’s last job • No documentation of a tool’s state and calibration history • Lack of awareness of when tools will need recalibration • Inability to verify whether all parts are returned from the field or by vendors • No detailed knowledge of the quality or timing of calibration performed by third parties These are common and familiar challenges that managers, technicians, and operators face every day on the job. With tools, parts, and components constantly traveling between locations, it may seem impossible to maintain accurate records and bulletproof processes for tool management. The good news is there is an out-of-the-box, cost effective solution that can eliminate wasted labor cost and inefficiencies while also providing assurance that quality and safety standards are met. www.tegoinc.com 1 Tool tracking problems aren’t unique to aerospace, and affect any company that relies on: • High value tools, components and physical assets deployed in the field for critical repairs • Tools, assemblies, kits, belts, and assets with multiple components • Tools, parts, components or other physical assets that are loaned or leased to customers or other third parties
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Tego Tool Asset Management: The Right Tool, Fully Calibrated and Ready to Work When You Need It
The ChallengeA plane is grounded with an engine in need of service. Highly skilled technicians are deployed into the field with a set of specialized tools. One of the tools required to complete the job arrives out of calibration so a new one needs to be located and air shipped, all while the plane sits idle and the airline loses additional revenue.dustries have not been able to harness the benefit of radio-frequency.
Scope of the ProblemEach industry has some variant of the same problem: complex machinery needs field service. In this aerospace example, with tens of millions of dollars’ worth of tools and assembly kits being shuttled among a global network of facilities and third-party calibration sites, maintaining accurate and up-to-date information about each individual tool becomes incredibly complex.
Current inventory management and maintenance tracking software systems capture some warehouse information but only within a single site, leaving out the visibility, access and control needed when tools themselves move between facilities and from job to job in the field. Simple missteps balloon into lost revenue and can amount to significant risks for noncompliance with safety and quality standards.
Other failures in tool management processes include:
• No record of a tool’s last job
• No documentation of a tool’s state and calibration history
• Lack of awareness of when tools will need recalibration
• Inability to verify whether all parts are returned from the field or by vendors
• No detailed knowledge of the quality or timing of calibration performed by third parties
These are common and familiar challenges that managers, technicians, and operators face every day on the job. With tools, parts, and components constantly traveling between locations, it may seem impossible to maintain accurate records and bulletproof processes for tool management. The good news is there is an out-of-the-box, cost effective solution that can eliminate wasted labor cost and inefficiencies while also providing assurance that quality and safety standards are met.
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Tool tracking problems aren’t unique to aerospace, and affect any company that relies on:
• High value tools, components and physical assets deployed in the field for critical repairs
• Tools, assemblies, kits, belts, and assets with multiple components
• Tools, parts, components or other physical assets that are loaned or leased to customers or other third parties
Tego Connect Mobile on TSL model
Tego Connect Mobile on Zebra model
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The SolutionBusiness Process Data Captured Directly on Tools, Kits, and Components
Tego provides a plug-and-play asset management system with edge computing capabilities, ideal for distributed workforces and assets on the move. Seamlessly deployed and powered by Tego’s Asset Intelligence Platform (AIP), it provides asset owners, operators, and maintenance personnel the ability to access critical data and documents directly from tools, wherever they are in the field. There is no need for connectivity to a cloud database, central system, or even a local power source.
Workorder traceability, calibration history, and chain of custody data - all provided directly off each tool and traveling with it. By providing fieldworkers with the right information, they can complete their jobs faster, more reliably, and more efficiently. Warehouses benefit from reduced paperwork, cloud-level visibility of tools out in the field. Using commercial mobile devices and standard Gen2 handheld RFID readers, data integrates back to Tego Hub where managers can define new processes, analyze tool population level data, and monitor critical activities to adjust for competing field needs.
The BenefitsImagine having access to critical data and information anywhere in the field – anywhere the tool travels. Imagine being alerted to calibration notification before you are caught unaware. Expiration and service notifications are visible in the field via mobile device, text messages or emails.
Imagine having all backend enterprise information directly accessible at your fingertips and updateable with each ongoing field inspection and field maintenance event.
Using Tego Connect Mobile, field workers can instantly identify tools, review a tool’s latest activity record, calibration status and work order histories.
Tego Connect Mobile
Central reporting gives you instant insight about all tools, their utilization, location and condition.
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Tego Hub
Operations managers and executives can now change the asset management mindset of their business from reactive to proactive. Have a single view of your entire inventory in real time without having to depend on infrastructure for connectivity. Leverage backend visibility, control and access across all global warehouses and extend the reach of those benefits with continuity of information at the edge. Benefit from proactive maintenance and servicing, and save significant costs by avoiding the need to buy replacement tools in an emergency:
• Complete visibility in the field, in real time across the enterprise, throughout multiple locations, and during off-site activities.
• Ability to certify that field site work is done in compliance
• Ability to digitize not only the tool location information and calibration history but also include links to critical manuals, instructions, charts and other documents cached on the mobile device to assure accurate identification and work steps by operators
• Ability to store critical process information and knowledge on the tool itself, where the work is being completed
ROI
Reduction in labor and time identifying whether a tool is in calibration
Reduction in labor and time checking in complex kits with multiple components and sub-components Reduction in spending on new replacement tools due to lack of visibility into calibration, condition, and location history
80%
90%
35%
Tego PlatformDigital tool tracking with Tego’s solution, powered by the company’s award-winning Asset Intelligence Platform (AIP), complete with mobile device applications and centralized cloud accessibility for your organization.
Find out how your organization can eliminate inefficiencies and save significant costs by leveraging a turnkey solution to transform its supply chain and improve
visibility across the organization. Contact Us Today.
Powering Assets with Intelligence www.tegoinc.com
Platform Advantages• Quick and inexpensive
deployment
• Minimal new infrastructure requirements
• Universally deployable on any type of product, packaging, part or component
• Open and multi-platform, Tego’s mobile device application supports all major mobile and desktop operating systems, including iOS, Android, Windows and OS X
• Tego operates across all RF gateway protocols and handheld readers
• Scalable to any environment and size of operation
• Capable of standalone deployment without complex integrations
• Integration with inventory management systems or EAM modules, through a library of APIs
• Configurable to customer requirements
• Easier sharing of data across systems
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The solution enables the digitization of tools for better visibility into utilization, condition, location and work order history.
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