Notes on control, tooling and evidence
Practical writing for die-casting, stamping and moulding teams. How to keep tooling, quality and audit evidence tied to the work that produced it.
Job cards, preventive maintenance and critical spares, with the history written as the work happens.
Browse tooling →Released control plans, inspection capture and capability, kept tied to the characteristic and revision.
Browse quality →Turn the records you already keep into an evidence trail an auditor can follow.
Browse audit →How to set die PM intervals by produced parts
Triggering die PM on produced parts is the settled half. The number is where toolrooms stall. Anchor it to the build spec, let recorded failure counts argue it down, and write the count into every service so the interval can learn.
Tool trackers built for construction crews and CMMS built for pumps both miss what a die record has to hold. The software question is really a records question: repairs, services, counts and spares as one story that reads back on demand.
September 3, 2026The empty shelf on breakdown day and keeping two of everything are both failures of policy. A minimum is built from lead time, real usage and what a stockout costs, and wear parts and failure parts are stocked on different logic.
August 21, 2026A die does not wear by the week. It wears by the hits it makes. Service it on a calendar and you either strip a healthy die too early or lose a good one mid run. The trigger has to match how the tool actually ages.
August 21, 2026Proving critical spares are a controlled system, not a shoebox. The minimum-stock, movement and consumption records an auditor wants to see for a die or line, and why a full shelf is not evidence.
August 20, 2026When an auditor asks for the full maintenance history of a die, the last PM sheet is only part of the answer. The job cards, repairs, PM against produced-part counts, spare usage and release history all belong on the die record together.
August 20, 2026When the auditor asks for the full service history of a tool, a folder of maintenance reports is only part of the answer. The job cards, repairs, PM records, spares usage and release history all belong together.
June 6, 2026Evidence, in your inbox
Short, practical notes on control, tooling and audit evidence for SME manufacturers. No noise.
Tooling, quality and audit evidence on one foundation
See how records written as the work happens become the evidence you need later.