Industry
For tool rooms and tool, die and mould makers, where each tool moves from request and design through manufacture, trial and commissioning into a working life of use and maintenance.
Introduction
Tool rooms and tool, die and mould makers design and build press tools, progressive dies, forging dies, injection moulds, jigs, fixtures and gauges — for their own production or for customers.
Each tool is effectively a project: request, feasibility, quotation, design, BOM, machining, trial and correction before approval. Once in production, its life, maintenance and repairs decide how long it keeps making good parts.
Segments
Process
Challenges
What tool rooms and tool, die and mould makers typically face when the business runs on spreadsheets, paper and disconnected tools.
Generic ERP
Generic ERP is built around a clean, linear order-to-invoice flow. These are the gaps that usually push teams back to spreadsheets.
Why Navigator
Navigator is customized to how tool rooms and tool, die and mould makers work, on a manufacturing-first core — engineering, PPC and MRP, purchasing, production, quality, maintenance and finance — shaped by customized ERP work across varied manufacturing segments since 1997. Our no-code development tool, launched in 2020, greatly speeds up that customization, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you into a generic template.
Tool requests, feasibility, revision-controlled design, tool BOM and routing, manufacture and inspection in Navigator - ToolRoom.
A separate record for every trial and correction, with the tool request, development project and tool master kept apart so history is never lost.
Tool master, movement, usage against expected life, maintenance, breakdowns and repairs in Navigator - ToolRoom.
Calibration plans, jobs, records and the due register in Navigator - QMS.
From our journey
In 2006 Navigator delivered a solution for an automobile OEM that included outsourced and in-house die and tool room management. See our journey
FAQ
Tooling covers tool & die manufacturers, press tool manufacturers, progressive die manufacturers, forging die manufacturers, plastic injection mould manufacturers, die casting die manufacturers, jigs & fixtures manufacturers, gauge manufacturers and special purpose tooling manufacturers.
A typical flow runs Tool request → Feasibility → Quotation → Design → BOM → Routing → Procurement → Tool manufacturing → Inspection → Trial → Correction → Re-trial → Approval → Commissioning → Tool life → Maintenance.
Tool life is tracked in spreadsheets that are never reconciled with production. Trials and corrections are not recorded, so lessons are lost on the next tool. Drawing revisions change requirements without a clear baseline. Development cost is not accumulated against the tool, so quotations rely on guesswork. Nobody knows where a tool is, or whether it is available, in production or under repair.
Has no concept of a tool rated for a given life with usage remaining. Treats tool development as a generic work order instead of a project with trials and corrections. Schedules maintenance by calendar, ignoring actual usage. Does not tie tool usage to the work orders that consumed it.
Navigator is customized to how tool rooms and tool, die and mould makers work, on a manufacturing-first core — engineering, PPC and MRP, purchasing, production, quality, maintenance and finance — shaped by customized ERP work across varied manufacturing segments since 1997. Our no-code development tool, launched in 2020, greatly speeds up that customization, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you into a generic template. Key benefits: Engineering from request to commissioning — Tool requests, feasibility, revision-controlled design, tool BOM and routing, manufacture and inspection in Navigator - ToolRoom. Every revision, trial and correction kept — A separate record for every trial and correction, with the tool request, development project and tool master kept apart so history is never lost. Tools tracked through their working life — Tool master, movement, usage against expected life, maintenance, breakdowns and repairs in Navigator - ToolRoom. Gauges calibrated on time — Calibration plans, jobs, records and the due register in Navigator - QMS.
Products to look at first are Navigator - ToolRoom, Navigator - ERP and Navigator - QMS. Navigator ToolRoom covers tool room engineering, from tool request to commissioning, and tool room management through movement, usage, maintenance and repair.
Next step
Tell us how you manufacture and where planning breaks down. We will walk you through the parts of Navigator that fit.
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