Tool Types (titrp0101m000)

Use this session to maintain tool types. You can specify general and refurbishing data for each tool type. For example, the tool's life, the refurbishing data and the planning method are specified in this session.

You can link tool types to reference activities, plan activities, and service activities in Service.

Note

You can only enter a tool type if the Tool Requirements Planning (TRP) check box in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session is selected.

 

General
Tool Type

The tool type is the first level that is used to identify the tool in the coding system for tools.

Some examples of tool types are:

  • Hammer
  • Screwdriver
  • Wheelbarrows

Hammer 1, screwdriver 2 and wheelbarrow 3 are examples of tool types in combination with a tool serial number, and represent unique tools.

Tool Class
Tool's Life Based On

A tool's life is based on the number of times the tool can be used or the number of hours the tool can perform. You can modify this field if the tool type is not planned (see the Availability Planning (titrp0513m000) session).

Tool's Life

The capacity of the tool expressed as the number of hours or times it can be used.

Note

If the value of the Tool's Life Based On field is Not Applicable, you cannot maintain this field.

Unit Set

The unit set you defined for the tool in the Unit Set field in the Items - General (tcibd0501m000) session.

Tool's Life Unit

Specification of the unit in which the tool's life is expressed.

A tool's life can be expressed as the number of times or number of hours the tool can be used:

  • If the Tool's Life Based On field is Number of Hours Used, the tool's life-unit must be Time.
  • If the Tool's Life Based On field is Number of Times Used, the tool's life-unit must be Piece.
Note

The unit entered in this field must be present in the unit set, which is defined for this tool type in the Unit Sets (tcmcs0106m000) session.

If the unit is modified, the tool's life can be recalculated in the new Tool's Life Unit field.

Person Responsible for Maintenance Notification

The employee responsible for maintenance of this tool type.

Critical in Availability Planning

Indicates whether this tool type is critical for availability planning of planned and actual production orders.

If this check box is selected, LN performs time-phased availability planning for the planned and actual production orders to check if the tool type is available.

Note

Only the tools for which this check box is selected can be maintained in the Tools by Item (titrp0107m000) session.

Schedule Constraint

Planning Method

The planning method to estimate requirements and to issue tools to the SFC Production Order or Service Order.

Refurbishing
Refurbishing Point

Enter the number of usages after which the tool must be refurbished. The refurbishing point is based on the number of times or the number of hours that the tool is used.

Note

You can enter the number of usages if the Tool's Life field is based on Number of Times Used or the Number of Hours Used.

Refurbishing Point Unit

In this field you can define the unit in which the refurbishing point is expressed.

Piece

If the life of the tool is based on the number of times the tool is used, the physical quantity of the unit in this field is Piece.

Time

If the tool's life is based on number of hours the tool is used, the physical quantity of the unit is Time.

Warning Percentage

Specify the point at which a warning must be given that the tool must be refurbished.

Example Refurbishing point = 1000 Warning percentage = 25% If the warning percentage is 25 for each tool type, a warning is given when the tools have been used approximately 750 times.

Refurbishing Point Reduction Percentage

Specify the reduction in the refurbishing point of each tool type after every refurbishment.

If you complete a service order to refurbish a tool, the refurbishing point of that tool is reduced by the percentage entered in this field.

Example

If the refurbishing point is 25, and the reduction percentage is 40, the refurbishing point after completion of the service order is 15 (40% * 25 = 10. If you substract 10 from refurbishing point 25, the new refurbishing point is 15).

Note

The completion of the service order does not affect the refurbishing point of the tool type.

Maximum Number of Refurbishings

Specify the maximum number of times the tool can be refurbished. If this field is 0 (zero) the amount of refurbishing orders you can create is unlimited.

Cost Rate

The cost rate of the tool that is used in Service package to calculate the cost of the tool's usage.

The time unit of the cost rate is defined in the Tools Requirement Planning Parameters (titrp0100s000) session.

Related topics

Cost Rate
Sales Rate

The sales rate specified in the home currency. The sales rate is used to invoice the usage of tools directly to the customer. Usage is based on the usage period in Service.

The time unit of this rate is defined in the Tools Requirement Planning Parameters (titrp0100s000) session.

 

Tools by Tool Type

LN zooms to the Tools by Tool Type (titrp0102m000) session.

Alternative Tool Types