Mr. Dan Girdner

Dan Girdner, a senior tool engineer who has extensive experience dealing with the tooling industry, was assigned the task of bringing tooling under control.

"We decided that we wanted to maintain a minimum number of tool suppliers, and we looked to set up a cooperative rather than a partnership," Mr. Girdner says."We wanted to select primary tool suppliers, each providing their specific ‘best-in-class' products, that could provide tooling on a ‘just-in-time' basis."

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Once The Aerospace Group had orchestrated this and chosen its primary tooling suppliers, the company wanted to automate its tooling process and began the search for a tool management system.
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The decision was based on the system's functionality and RealVision's willingness to further develop the system to Parker Hannifin's requirements and "because it was the only fully Windows-compliant system on the market," Mr. Girdner says.

Because all of the tools were identified with a random number, the company needed a system that would incorporate smart tool coding and a system that was intelligent enough to identify the tools by the tool ID.The ToolManager software has a user-configurable "tool wizard" that creates a consistent tool ID and description, ensuring that every user creates and accesses tools in the same way, thus avoiding costly duplication of data in a system with literally thousands of tooling items.

"Our main goal was to decrease our stock of tools in six different tool cribs," Mr. Girdner says."We were previously ordering either too much or too little to satisfy our needs.Now with the visibility of seeing exactly what we had in each tool crib, we've been able to refine our actual requirements.By implementing the ToolManager software, alternative tool suppliers can be set up in advance, so if one supplier cannot deliver to our time and costs, we can automatically switch to an alternative, thereby giving us optimum stock levels."

The implementation stage had to be fast and furious.Perishable tooling was the first to be added to the system, then tool lists and fixtures.
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Mr. Girdner says, "After speaking to other companies that have implemented similar systems and after experiencing the implementation process with RealVision, we couldn't have made a better choice."

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Dan Girdner, senior tool engineer for Parker Hannifin, was assigned the task of bringing the company's tooling under control.
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Once this was in place, Girdner says Parker Hannifin was looking to automate the tooling process using a tool management system.
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According to Girdner, it was the only fully Windows-compliant system on the market.

All of the tools at Parker Hannifin are identified with a random number.The software system could identify the tools by their ID numbers, he says.ToolManager has a user configurable tool wizard, which creates a consistent and meaningful tool identification and description.This allows all operators to create and access tools in the same way, thus avoiding costly duplication of data in the system, which has thousands of tooling items.

"Our main goal in utilizing the ToolManager system was to decrease our stock of tools in six different tool cribs," says Girdner.
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"After speaking to other companies that have implemented similar systems, and experiencing the implementation process with RealVision, we couldn't have made a better choice," says Girdner.

Dan Girdner , senior tool engineer for Parker Hannifin , was assigned the task of bringing the company's tooling under control.
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Once this was in place , Girdner says Parker Hannifin was looking to automate the tooling process using a tool management system.
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According to Girdner , it was the only fully Windows-compliant system on the market.

All of the tools at Parker Hannifin are identified with a random number.The software system could identify the tools by their ID numbers , he says.ToolManager has a user configurable tool wizard , which creates a consistent and meaningful tool identification and description.This allows all operators to create and access tools in the same way , thus avoiding costly duplication of data in the system , which has thousands of tooling items.

Our main goal in utilizing the ToolManager system was to decrease our stock of tools in six different tool cribs , says Girdner.We were previously ordering either too much or too little to satisfy our needs.Now , with the visibility of seeing exactly what we have in each tool crib , we've been able to refine our actual requirements..

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After speaking to other companies that have implemented similar systems , and experiencing the implementation process with RealVision , we couldn't have made a better choice , says Girdner.

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Dan Girdner, Senior Tool Engineer, with extensive experience dealing with the tooling industry, was assigned with the task of bringing their tooling under control.