Monday, March 21, 2016
Tool Tracking Lost & Found with ONE-KEY
coptool.com: One of the biggest problems that faces any service or construction related company is tracking the equipment. Whether you’ve got 5 guys or 500 everyone we’ve talked to has some level of frustration due to tracking tools and tool lose, theft or otherwise. When ONE-KEY was first launched from Milwaukee the first question many of us had was can it track my tools. The answer at the time was a diplomatic no but… soon we might have something for you. Well that day is here
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I think the new technology that is coming out to accompany tools is pretty great. I do not know if I personally have much use for it at this point in my life since my limited tool collection stays in one place all the time and when I use something, if I misplace it the space I work in is so small that it wouldn’t be hard to find. This is not to say I do not lose stuff because I do that all the time, my hats, jackets, water bottles, everything. But what I do not lose are my expensive tools since I use them and put them away. Now if they came out with this device for pencils or utility knives Id buy them out but I think any tacking device is more expensive than buying a case of 100 pencils. I can see how this would be useful to large companies on large sites with large numbers of workers, but maybe not for a small scene shop or an individual worker.
This looks great! I think it would be most useful in a large shop, as the article describes, where a lot of money is spend on expensive tools that get used by many people in one day. With my own things, I know if I have lent something to someone and when I can expect to get it back. With the exception of simply forgetting that they have it, I can keep track of where all my personal tools and belongings are at one time. For a large shop, however, I can see how tool tracking would be a huge issue. I was surprised at first that the thing only worked within 100 ft, but I guess that if everyone in the workplace had the app and got pinged by the tools they were working with, it might work. Do all the pings trace back to one device, so that the owner of a company, say, might be able to see where all of his shop tools are going? This might be a helpful addition to the tool-tracking system.
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