TIPSS - Tools for Innovative Product-Service-Systems for Global Tool and Die Networks within the IMS community

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The main objective of the TIPPS-IMS project is to develop and establish innovative business models in which the toolmaker becomes the manager of customer and partner  networks to satisfy all customer needs as well as to handle his own cost-effective value- based management. The enabler for these global tool and die networks are so-called “smart tools” developed in the TIPSS project. “Smart tools” represent injection moulds equipped with state-of-the-art sensor technology delivering real-time data from the production process. A newly developed electronic toolbook will collect, store and transmit this data. By using algorithms developed in the TIPSS project the transmitted data will be evaluated by the toolmaker. The toolmaker becomes capable of monitoring the process and to offer unique product related services for his customers, such as an optimised preventive maintenance, which can be scheduled to non-production times. The operational availability of both tool and machine can be increased.