The advantages of Tool Lifecycle Management are obvious: Throughout all departments, every employee has access to the tool data. In order for this process to work smoothly, it needs a center in which all information converges: The TDM Base Module and an efficient data base. Together they form the basis for tool management
with TDM and enable economical and transparent data organization in all company divisions.
Every department has a different demand for tool data: For NC programming, it is the data of tool assemblies, in the crib, the order information that includes tool items. In turn, tool assembly requires tool lists, tool assembly information and workpiece setting sheets. The TDM Base Module depicts this basic structure of machining production on three functional levels.
