Services — 360° cutting tool management
Tool Management
We take on the entire cutting tool cycle: stock, replenishment, application engineering, regrinding and indicators — inside your plant.
360° cutting tool management
Tool Management brings together techniques that are essential to keep a machining area efficient. Direct tooling costs alone can account for 5% of the total expenses of a machining area; adding the indirect costs tied to the management process, that figure easily goes into double digits.
Reducing this overall cost comes from continuous stock level control, strategic tool replacement, item standardisation, breakage analysis and tool life optimisation. Activities that demand method, continuity and a specialised team.
Outsourcing this management lets your company stay focused on its core business, while the tools are handled by a provider dedicated exclusively to that.
How the operation works
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Automatic dispensers (KTC)
Tools are kept in Kromi electronic cabinets placed on the shop floor — always organised, secure and using a concentrated footprint.
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Lower stock
Levels are sized from actual consumption and reviewed continuously. Replenishment is routine and handled by our team, with no capital tied up on your side.
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In-site technician
Qualified technicians work inside the client, supporting the necessary improvements and acting as a direct link to Kromi.
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Application engineering
An independent engineering department with a specialised team for machining process development and improvement.
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Regrinding management
We coordinate the whole regrinding cycle, from collecting the used tool to returning the reground tool to the dispenser.
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24/7 hotline
Contact numbers are displayed on the cabinet controller for any emergency, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Reliable indicators
Dashboards with consumption, cost per part and tool life data — much of it on-time, straight from our online portals, reachable from any device.
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Proprietary software
The Kromi platform for consumption tracking and real-time tool cost control.
The highly competitive environment machining companies operate in drives a growing need to reduce waste. Excess cutting tools in stock, with their high acquisition values, strongly contributes to diverting increasingly scarce working capital into unnecessary purchases and, consequently, to lower competitiveness.
Benefits
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Lower overall costs
Less waste, fewer emergency purchases, less idle capital.
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Clear indicators
Consumption, cost per part and tool life always visible.
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Lower stock levels
The stock is no longer yours and is sized by people who do it every day.
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A single contact
One supplier, one contact, one invoice per month.
How we contract
One service, or all of them
The four fronts work together. You choose which ones go into the contract as your plant needs them — and what changes is not only the scope: it is having one point of contact, one invoice and the same management method over all of it.
Most common combinations
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Tool Management + Pre-Setting
For plants with frequent assembly changes that want setup out of the machine.
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Tool Management + PPE
Tooling in the KTC and PPE in the KS: two distinct machines, the same management and the same record behind them.
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MRO + Tool Management + PPE
All the plant's indirect supply under a single management, traceable end to end.
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Complete management
All four fronts integrated: from buying the tool to the assembly ready at the machine.
Explore the Kromi solutions
Shall we calculate how much your operation can save?
A specialist reviews your current consumption scenario and presents the reduction potential before any commitment.