Challenges

  • Manage autonomous access control to tool cribs
  • Traceability of tool boxes used by operators on maintenance lines
  • Combat FOD* risk and safeguard maintenance (*Foreign Object Debris or Foreign Object Damage) 
  • Optimize costs
  • Reduce tool search time

Solutions (project begun in 2019)

Provide a self-inventorying security and traceability system in tool cribs and in close proximity to maintenance areas:

  • Installation of XP RFID* Portals (NEXPORT®) to track loans and returns automatically for each transaction, at any time (*Radio Frequency identification)
  • Commissioning of smart XL RFID Cabinets to provide real-time equipment inventory, at any time
  • Deployment of RFID-tagged toolboxes for 10,000 operators.
  • Deployment of NexCap® Software solution in SAAS (accessible 24/7 and cover multiple shifts)

Benefits

  • FOD risks minimized through traceability
  • Compliance with traceability standards
  • Improved productivity and monitoring
  • +20% productivity gained*
    • Management of breakage and loss with a tool box quarantine system
    • Monitoring and anticipation of tool calibration
  • Generation of maintenance-related data directly from NEXCAP® IOT (dashboard, extractions)

* Estimate by NEXESS management team

 

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