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Supply Chain Services

ToolBOSS Vending Solutions

ToolBOSS vending solutions help to reduce costs and improve efficiencies to give you a competitive edge.

We will identify the vending solution best suited to help you:

  • Cut tooling inventory by 50% or more
  • Decrease spending on tooling by up to 30%
  • Reduce administrative costs by as much as 90%

Why Should You Use Kennametal ToolBOSS Services?

  • Faster Results: We can help you to establish needs, identify solutions, and achieve measurable results, quickly and cost effectively
  • Proven Methodology: Successful implementation requires careful planning, teamwork, disciplined execution, and your active involvement
  • Disciplined Project Execution: We have implemented hundreds of customized supply chain programs with major manufacturers worldwide, achieving impressive efficiency gains, cost reductions, and other related benefits.
  • Superior Service: Our ongoing support, education, installation, and maintenance programs deliver the latest updates and technologies to easily adapt your supply chain to changing industry conditions
  • Commitment to Success: We believe our success depends upon your success. We are committed to helping you achieve long-term operational and financial benefits

ToolBOSS Unit Styles

ToolBOSS Vending Solution Units

Combine ToolBOSS Vending Units with the powerful management software to create a highly versatile, high-capacity, and highly secure storage solution

The ToolBOSS™ Original

The ToolBOSS™Original

Combined with our powerful ToolBOSS™ Management Software, the cabinet provides a versatile high-capacity solution to meet the unpredictable challenges of logistics and supply chain management.

  • Reconfigurable: Single trays or the entire frame can be easily changed in minutes without the use of tools
  • Unique Manual Override Ability: Unique manual override capability, easy-to-use, and 24/7 availability
    Drawer Options: 30 different drawer sizes available to accommodate a large variety of differently sized items; additional special sizes are available upon request
  • Security: Access to items in the cabinet can be restricted by the use of: username, password, biometric identification, card readers, or a combination of these options. High-strength drawer locks cannot be forced open by normal or aggressive use, without using tools
  • Compatibility: The cabinet is fully compatible with existing ToolBOSS units
  • High-Speed Access: Rapid search and selection of items via the ToolBOSS software is enhanced with an LED identification system that guides users to the correct drawer
  • Expandability: The cabinet can be expanded by up to 10 units per system, providing up to 1,121 secure locations
  • Dimensions: 20.1" D x 21.5" W x 78.7" H (510mm D x 545mm W x 2000mm H)
  • Capacity: As a stand-alone machine: — 26 levels — 104 locations (max) — 1,248 compartments (max)
    As an add-on machine: — 28 levels — 113 locations (max) — 1,344 compartments (max)

4 Other styles of ToolBOSS Units – Journeyman, Supply Lockers, Modulo and Rotopoint

The Kennametal ToolBOSS Provides:

  • 24/7 automated control
  • Guaranteed availability
  • Secure, auditable storage
  • Consumable and reusable tooling solution
  • sItem calibration tracking and control
  • Line side availability
  • Fast and easy system operation
  • Complete user accountability
  • Automatic procurement capabilities
  • Centralized SQL database

ToolBOSS Provides an Easy Way to:

  • Reduce inventory procurement costs
  • Improve product availability
  • Reduce tooling/consumable waste
  • Improve customer relationship
  • Enhance calibration tracking and control
  • Improve productivity

ToolBOSS Software System

Take Control with ToolBOSS Software

The software system that drives ToolBOSS is powerful and easy to use.

Because of the unique design of the ToolBOSS, items can be issued and returned for repeated use. This is valuable for inspection equipment and tooling applications.

The software allows issue by multiple criteria (cell, job, user) and access to restricted items, such as those required for a single job, while allowing general-use items (e.g., safety equipment) to be available to everybody.

Controlled access through permissions, passwords, and access devices enables each user a unique “profile” to suit their individual requirements. A supplier can restock the machines, but an operator can only withdraw and return items.

ToolBOSS controls items outside the unit by issuing a key or items directly. Loose items, such as screws and washers, can be issued by weight using built-in electronic scales. Batch or individual traceable items, such as inspection equipment or aircraft spares, can be managed. A coded, non-editable audit trail provides evidence of every transaction. Search routines, and the ability to display images of both items and the users, are also part of the design.

Once a report has been defined, it can be accessed anywhere on the network or sent via email. With the networking and hardware built into ToolBOSS as standard, users on the network can access ToolBOSS to reconfigure, run reports, and collect ordering information. Full EDI/electronic capability is included for analysis of information and purchasing. Multiple independent suppliers can access only their information.

Multiple ToolBOSS units can be networked together and provide information about each unit’s contents.

Every ToolBOSS machine includes a powerful, flexible report generator that enables standard and customized report output