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Manufacturing · Software for aerospace tooling companies

Keep every tool drawing revision, inspection report and calibration date with the tool.

Aerospace tooling companies build drill jigs, trim fixtures, check gauges and layup moulds that must match a customer’s drawing at a stated revision. The software ties each tool to its drawing issue, material certificate, route and CMM report, so recalibration dates and outside processes stay on one record from order to return.

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At a glance

An aerospace tooling company makes the equipment that holds, drills, trims and checks someone else’s part, and the customer’s drawing letter decides whether the shop built the right one. A jig built to B is scrap. It happens.

The tool record keeps the drawing issue, the billet certificate, the machining route and the coordinate measuring report together, so a change notice cannot reach the bush-pressing bench unseen. Customer-owned tooling stays on the register after shipment, carrying its recalibration date, its last CMM report and every outside process it has been through since the first build.

How the work runs today

A tooling enquiry arrives. Estimating reads the model, then prices the 7075 or tool steel plate, five-axis spindle hours, anodising or stress relief, and CMM time. The accepted order becomes a tool number. Plate, billet and casting are bought against that number, and every piece arrives with its own mill certificate, heat reference and cut length.

Machining runs from roughing through fixture set-ups to jig grinding and the hand fitting of drill bushes and locating pins. Inspection checks hole positions, datum faces and profile on the coordinate measuring machine, signs the report, and hands the jig over for marking and packing. It ships with that report and a packing list. Later the customer sends a drawing change, or the tool returns for recalibration, and both go onto the same record.

Where it breaks

What goes wrong for aerospace tooling companies without a proper system.

Two revisions are in the shop

Programmers hold one drawing issue while the inspector holds another, and the customer’s engineering change notice sits in an email that nobody confirmed. The first cut is made anyway.

Certificates drift away from plates

A 7075 plate is sawn into three tools and the mill certificate stays in the first folder, so a question about the third tool has no paper behind it.

Measurement reports sit on a workstation

The CMM file is saved by operator and date, never by tool number. Finding the report for a trim fixture shipped last year means a slow walk through nested folders, old exports and an operator’s personal drive.

Recalibration dates are held by the customer

Check gauges and master templates need periodic verification against a reference standard, yet the shop hears about an overdue tool late. Only the customer’s quality engineer tells it.

Outside processes lose their trail

A fixture goes out for anodising or stress relief. It comes back with no note. Guesswork follows.

What the software does

What we would build for aerospace tooling companies.

Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.

Tooling enquiry and estimate

Price a tool from plate weight, five-axis spindle hours, outside processes and CMM time, then print the customer’s drawing letter on the quotation beside the delivery date.

Drawing revision register

Hold each customer drawing issue against the tool number, with the change notice that moved it and the day the shop released it to the floor filed beside it.

Material and certificate trace

Record each plate, billet or casting received with its certificate and heat or lot reference, and link every tool cut from that piece back to the same paper.

Machining route and first-off sign-off

Set the sequence of milling, drilling, jig grinding and hand fitting for a tool, and block each new set-up until the inspector has signed the previous datum surface.

Measurement report storage

File the CMM report and gauge checks under the tool number, together with the inspector’s name, the stylus configuration and the drawing revision that was measured.

Outside process tracking

Anodising, heat treatment and dye penetrant testing happen outside, so each tool leaves on a delivery note and returns against its process certificate before it rejoins the bench stock.

Customer tooling register and recalibration

List every tool the customer owns, where it sits, which gauge standard applies and when its next verification falls due. Reminders go to the contact you name.

Before you talk to a supplier

A requirements checklist for aerospace tooling companies.

What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.

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Ready product

A product already built for aerospace tooling companies.

It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.

Aerospace Tooling Company Management Software

Tooling enquiries, drawing letters, material certificates, machining routes, measurement reports, outside processes and customer-owned tool records for aerospace tooling companies.

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Solutions inside

The business modules aerospace tooling companies use most.

Each one is also available on its own, or inside a system built for you.

Services

The services behind it.

Business Process Automation

Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.

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Data Migration and Moving Off Spreadsheets

Data migration and spreadsheet replacement covers auditing existing files, cleaning and deduplicating records, loading them into a new system and reconciling the loaded result against known totals. Both systems then run side by side before cutover. Originals stay untouched.

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ERP, CRM and Business Software Implementation

One record of stock, orders, customers and accounts, set up so your team opens it every day.

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How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Our work

Software we have built and run.

We only name clients whose work is published. These are systems our team designed, built and supports.

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Common questions

Questions aerospace tooling companies ask before they call.

Can it hold several revisions of one customer drawing?

Yes. Each issue is stored with the change notice that introduced it, and every tool is bound to one issue at a time, which keeps the floor honest. Revision B stays B. When the customer moves to a later letter, the tool is flagged for review before its next operation can start.

Does it keep material certificates for each plate?

Yes. A certificate is stored against the plate or billet received and linked to every tool cut from it. Your quality team decides which heat and lot fields it shows.

Can we track tools that belong to the customer?

Yes. Every customer-owned fixture and gauge sits in one register showing where it is, the latest CMM report and when its next check falls due. A reminder reaches the person you nominate. Nothing lapses quietly.

What decides the cost of the system?

User count, the number of machines and processes, and how many customer report formats are configured all feed into it. We first run a demo on a real jig order from your shop, and only then talk figures.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

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