In this video, I guide you through managing tools in Digit. I explain how to add tools, set up configurations, and link items to tools. I demonstrate setting tool properties like status, owner, and conditions.
Video Transcript
0:00 To manage tools in Digit, you can go into Settings here in the top navigation, find Tools in the Production subsection, click on that to see a list of all of the tools that you have in your system.
0:12 These tools could be molds that go into an injection molding machine, for example, that make a specific part, or a combination of parts.
0:21 To add a tool, you can click on the Add Tool button here, you can give the tool a name, we'll call this Mold 142, you can give it an optional description, you can add a photo, set the status to Active Archive, set the owner, you can set this to yourself, or maybe this might be a customer of yours that
0:39 owns the tool, a design that your warehouse or at a third party, you can set a tool number, you can set a customer tool number, that might be different than your internal, you see a parts made, this will be an automatic increment of parts that have been made on this tool based on production entry, so
0:56 you can set a default location, you can set a default warehouse location, and you can set a custom a condition.
1:02 Conditions are a dynamic field, by default it's new, good, and poor, if you have your own tool conditions, you can update those in this dialog box here.
1:12 We'll set this one to new. If you have custom fields that you'd like to associate with a these tools, you can add those here.
1:19 All of our custom fields are available, text, number, date, single select. We have more custom fields coming soon. Once you've set this up, you can hit continue, and now you can link items that this tool can make.
1:30 Sometimes a tool might be only able to make one item, and or maybe variants of a single item. Other times, this tool might be able to make multiple items.
1:41 In any case, you can select whatever items are eligible to be run on this tool. Once you've selected the items, you can then go and configure the tool.
1:48 This is where a lot of our cool functionality comes and takes place. You can have a configuration that you can call anything you want.
1:55 We'll just call this configuration 1, and we'll say that this configuration can make the green and the red additives, and maybe just the green thing here.
2:06 This might be a multi-port tool where, for example, more of these are made, and one of each of these are made per shot, for example.
2:14 You can also add custom fields to these configurations at a set of time that's specific to the configuration, and you can set alerts that interact with other parts of Digit.
2:25 In this case, you might want to show on a sales order that if a customer order is one of these parts, that they also need to know that they have to order these other parts, because when you run one shot into the mold, you're producing these parts whether you like it or not.
2:39 If that's the case, you can click on the toggle here. You can also add notes about the specific configuration. When you click on add, you can see that your first configuration has been set here.
2:49 You can add as many configurations as you want, and then you can click on finish to finish uploading that tool.
2:55 These tools are a powerful piece of the functionality, and Digit can give you extra control over what configurations, what tools, what assets and what items are associated together, so that when you're going to manage your production line, capacity, production schedules, you can link all of your constraints
3:09 in the system here by managing your tools.