Talking about the Development and Application of Tool Management Outsourcing

Tool management originated in the early 1990s. General Motors Corporation in North America can be called the first stage of tool management development. It belongs to the primary level of tool management outsourcing. The tool management outsourcer is only responsible for tool procurement and inventory management. In the mid-1990s, there was a full-time company specializing in tool management contracting. This professional management company, in addition to a variety of tools used in a variety of different processing parts have in-depth understanding and understanding, with its excellent experience, gradually for the well-known OEM customers. Afterwards, Hungarian Opel Automobile Company, which is served by Austrian TCM company, pushed tool management outsourcing to a higher level of management in 1986. The original tool procurement logistics management further optimized the tool, reduced cost, and integrated into tool management. Within the scope of the contract.

Outsourcing is the transfer of important but non-core services to professional outsourcing service providers. It focuses on internal knowledge and resources in the core business with competitive advantages. This new management model aims to integrate and utilize the best outside of the enterprise. Resources, so as to reduce costs and improve efficiency, give full play to their core competitiveness and enhance their rapid adaptability to the environment. More and more companies have realized that in order to survive and develop in global competition, more advantages and capabilities are needed, not only to reduce costs, but also to allocate resources through more forms of business alliances in order to win competitive advantages.

The importance of cutting tools for engine production is well known. The production process involves a large amount of machining, especially metal cutting machining. Various types of standard and non-standard tools are used. The performance and quality of the cutting tools directly affect the performance. The smooth processing of the required qualified products will affect the cycle time and production efficiency. A critical tool, especially a non-standard tool, if it cannot be supplied on time, will cause a stoppage in the entire machining process. This shows that the tool and its management have a major impact on production.

Tool management includes enterprise management, quality management, logistics management, tool technology, manufacturing engineering, information and database collection, financial and cost control, human resources management, and other aspects of the work involved in the selection of tools, testing, procurement, adjustment, blade Grinding, repairing, inventory setting and control, tool life control, follow-up analysis and solution of machining problems in production, tool optimization and improvement, etc. In view of the importance of tool management for production and the complexity of tool management work, a professional and specialized tool outsourcing supplier should be selected when considering tool management outsourcing.

Integrated tool management has become a form of socialization that reflects the relationship between the new supply chain and the value chain. It embodies a new division of labor relationship between companies, and is based on the division of labor in the specialized business field-tool management knowledge resources. The advantages are: the professional division of work in the management functions can greatly reduce the organization setting and personnel investment in the tool management business, and at the same time, it can make the company become an efficient and agile lean enterprise through the professional management of tool suppliers. . At the same time, a close teamwork relationship and consistency of interests have been established between companies and suppliers, which has reduced the risks of the company to a considerable degree. It is an inevitable trend for the professional development of the tool management of manufacturing companies.