Tool Numbers (titrp0102m000)

Use this session to list, select, and maintain data referring to tools. LN identifies tools by means of a combination of tool type and tool number.

Field Information

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Tool

The ID and description of the tool.

Tool Number

The tool serial number.

Site

The sites where the tool is used.

Note: Only visible if multisite functionality is active.

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Active: If this check box is selected, the selected tool is in use.
Tool Used in Job Shop: If this check box is selected, the tool can be used for job shop production.
Tool used in Repetitive: If this check box is selected, the tool can be used in repetitive manufacturing.
Tool Used in Maintenance: If this check box is selected, this tool can be used by work orders in Work Control System in Service .
Tool Used in Service: If this check box is selected, the tool can be used by service orders.
Planner: The employee responsible for the maintenance of this tool type.
Buy-from Business Partner: buy-from business partner
Warehouse: The warehouse where the tool is stored when it is purchased.
Request / Return Tools: If this check box is cleared, the tool is used in a specific work center so you do not want to request or return the tool.

Note: If there are no requirements for the tool in the Estimated Tool Requirements (titrp0111m000) session, you can alter this field in the current (details) session.

Usage

Life Time remaining

Free

The number of times the tool can be used before refurbishment.

Planned

The number of times the tool is planned for future use in a production or service activity.

Actual Usage after Last Refurbishing

The number of times the tool is used after the last refurbishing of the tool.

Refurbishing Point

The number of usages after which the tool must be refurbished.

In the Refurbish At field, you can 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 the tool is used.

Refurbishing Point Unit

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

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

Total Free

The number of times the tool can be used until it must be discarded.

Refurbishing

Tool's Life: The capacity of the tool expressed as the number of hours or times it can be used.

Note: If the Tool's Life Based On field in the Tools (titrp0101m000) session is Not Applicable, this field is empty.
Tool's Life Unit: The unit in which the tool's life is expressed. A tool's life can be expressed as the number of times or the number of hours the tool can be used.

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.
Date of Last Refurbishing: The date on which the tool was last refurbished. The field is updated when the service order for refurbishing of the tool is completed.
Number of Times Refurbished: This field specifies the total number of times the tool is refurbished. LN updates when the service order for refurbishing a tool is completed.
Refurbishing Order: The number that is used to store the service order for refurbishing the tool.
Service Date: A date you can enter to register when service is done.

Details

Supply

Tool Signal

In this field you can assign a signal code to a tool.

A signal code is the code of the message that appears on the screen when a combination of tool type and tool serial number is entered in the following sessions:

Tools by Tool Kit (titrp0104m000)
Tool Components (titrp0106s000)
Estimated Tool Requirements (titrp0111m000)

Tool Number

Life Time Serial Number

lifetime serial number

Note: A multipiece tool is defined in the Tool Components (titrp0506m000) session.

You cannot modify this field if the tool is used as either a multipiece tool or as a component in the Tool Components (titrp0506m000) session.

Tool's Life Based On

A tool's life is a value 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 is not yet entered the Availability Planning (titrp0513m000) session.

First Usage Date

The date on which the tool was first used.

Last Usage Date

The date on which the tool was last used. This field is updated when the tool is used.

Text

If this check box is selected, a text is present.

Status

The status of the tool, which can be New, Available, Blocked, Allocated, or In Refurbishing.

You can only change the status of a tool component from Available to Blocked if the status of the other components linked to the multipiece tool is not one of the following:

Available
Allocated
In Refurbishing

If the usage status of a tool is Requested, Returned, or Unallocated, the status of the tool can be changed from:

Available to Blocked.
Available to In Refurbishing.

The tool status cannot be changed to Allocated or In Refurbishing.

Allowed values

New

When a tool is entered in LN, the tool is assigned the New status.

Available

The status must be Available if the tool is to be allocated to a production order or a service order. A multipiece tool can only be Available if at least one component is assigned to the tool in the Tool Components (titrp0506m000) session. You can only change the status of a multipiece tool to Available if the components have the Allocated status, the In Refurbishing status, or the Available status.

You cannot change the Available status of the tool if the tool has the usage status:

Requested
In Use
Returned

Blocked

Tools with the Blocked status cannot be planned or issued to a production order or a service order. You can only manually set the status of a tool to Blocked in the Tool Numbers (titrp0102m000) session.

If the tool has the Blocked status, the tool is not considered when:

Planning new estimated requirements.
Performing the availability check for tools.

You cannot modify the status of a component of a multipiece from Available to Blocked if a second component with one of the following statuses is assigned to the multipiece tool:

Available status.
Allocated status.
In Refurbishing status.

Allocated

The Allocated status is assigned to a tool when it is requested by means of the Request and Return Tools (titrp0215m000) session. When the tool is returned by means of the Request and Return Tools (titrp0215m000) session, the status changes to Available.

In Refurbishing

The In Refurbishing status is assigned to a tool when the tool is requested to be refurbished by means of the Request and Return Tools (titrp0215m000) session. Tools with this status will not be planned for issue to a production order or a service order within the planned period of maintenance.

The tool status changes from In Refurbishing to Available if the tool is returned using the Request and Return Tools (titrp0215m000) session.

Unit Set

The unit set that belongs to the tool type you defined in the Items (tcibd0501m000) session.

Usage Data

Actual Usage: Total number of times or hours the tool is used, irrespective of the number of times the tool is refurbished.

Note: If you close operations of a Production Order and/or service activities of an Service Order, and actual costing took place, this field is updated.
Remaining Tool Life (Tool): The tool's remaining life, displayed in the life unit of the tool. The remaining life of the tool is calculated as follows: Tool's Life- Actual Usage.
Remaining Tool Life (Tool Serial Number): The remaining life of the tool, calculated as the tool life minus the total times the tool is used. The remaining life of the is expressed in the tool's life unit.
Generate Warehouse Order: If this check box is selected, ad adjustment order is created when the selected tool is scrapped.