Craftspersons cannot do their job without the appropriate tools. If they prepare for a job and go to the supply closet and find that their expected tool is lost, in repair, or being used by another worker, valuable time is wasted.
Maintaining an accurate inventory of your tools prevents losses, maximizes tool sharing, and ensures that tools are available to craftspersons when they go to a site.
First, you develop yourtool types, which group tools into categories and are useful for managing types of tools, rather than individual tools. Tool types are important for estimating work request requirements.
Select the Define Tools task; the left panel shows a listing of all tools, and the right panel shows details for a selected tool including the current status (In Use, Available, Broken, Missing, Reserved, In Repair, Out of Service.)