Role · Maintenance / tool fleet
The tooling exists. You still need to find it — and know whether it will be available.
ROBIN locates tooling and shop floor assets without manual entry, tracks their actual usage time, and triggers checks at the right moment. Your technicians stop searching, and an expired calibration is never discovered at the workstation.
They already track their tooling with ROBIN
The three figures
Three indicators to master your fleet.
These are the ones ROBIN updates continuously, and the ones that recur throughout the rest of this page.
Positionreal time
Where the equipment is
The zone where each tool sits, updated without any intervention. A tool you can't find is a tool you buy again.
Usagerecorded hours
What it has actually been used for
Measured hours of use, not a calendar estimate. This is what should trigger an inspection.
Due dateinspection / calibration
What is coming due
Equipment whose inspection is approaching or overdue. Discovered at the workstation, it means a stopped operation.
Your challenges
Three everyday problems in managing your fleet.
They recur in every shop floor with complex flows: job shop, short runs, one-off parts, maintenance, or little flexibility on the size of the tool fleet.
Time spent looking for equipment
A tool has gone to another cell, a gauge is in inspection, a tool cart has changed zone. The search appears in no indicator and is taken out of maintenance hours.
Answer — ROBIN.Tracking
- Tracked equipment144
- Out of zone11
- Entry0
Each piece of equipment is located on the shop-floor map, with its zone and its time on site.
Maintenance tied to the calendar
An inspection every six months treats equipment used thirty hours a week and equipment used five in exactly the same way. You over-maintain on one side and take a risk on the other.
Answer — actual usage
- OUT-72 — 37.2 h this weekInspection D−4
- OUT-121 — 5 h this weekDeferral approved
Thresholds trigger on recorded hours of use, not on a theoretical date.
Downtime discovered at the workstation
The operator picks up the tool and the calibration is overdue. The operation stops, scheduling starts over, and the day is lost for that workstation.
Answer — alert and rescheduling
Before the workstation- Threshold reached
- Alert
- Schedule adjusted
Scheduling knows about the planned unavailability and sequences around it instead of suffering it.
The product
ROBIN, the platform that manages the shop floor in real time.
ROBIN has five modules. The one that tracks your fleet is the location layer.
ROBIN.Tracking
Every piece of equipment located, every hour counted.
The shop-floor location layer: real-time position of equipment, hours of use, inspection due dates.
- Real-time tooling position, no entry or scanning
- Actual hours of use per piece of equipment, per zone and per week
- Inspection due dates triggered on recorded usage
Your screen
What you see when you open ROBIN in the morning.
A single screen: the fleet, its position, its usage and its due dates. The equipment that needs a decision today rises to the top of the list.
Tooling fleet — 144 items
Real time- 1OUT-72 · Measuring instrumentTooling inspection zone · 37.2 h this weekInspection D−4
- 2OUT-5 · Maintenance toolOut of zone for 3 days · last position dock 2To be located
- 3Gauge_24 · GaugeOlivier zone · 5 h this weekCalibration due
- 4OUT-112 · Mobile tool cartAssembly shop · 29 h this weekCompliant
Each line opens the equipment's history: zones passed through, hours of use, past and upcoming inspections.
In the field
What it changes for your team.
- No added data entry: position and usage are reported automatically
- Inspections trigger on actual hours, not on the calendar
- A planned downtime is built into the shop floor schedule
- One screen per cell, with no per-user cost
What ROBIN changes
Your fleet stops being an unknown.
An inventory that is always accurate
Position comes from sensors, not from an inventory campaign. The record no longer drifts between two counts.
Maintenance proportionate to usage
Thirty-seven hours a week or five: it is not the same wear. Inspections follow observed utilisation, which avoids over-maintenance as much as breakdowns.
Downtimes that no longer catch you off guard
A stoppage known in advance is a constraint that scheduling absorbs. Discovered at the workstation, it is a lost day.
The results
What it delivers on a real shop floor.
The gains observed on a defined scope, and the customer case that documents them.
- 144assets tracked continuously on a pilot scope
- 0added data entry: position is reported automatically
- < 2 minto re-plan around a declared downtime
- < 3 monthsfrom signature to production on a pilot scope
Customer case · Aircraft repair shop
Landing gear: 7% TAT gained without adding capacity.
A European MRO locates its tooling and WIP across its landing gear shop floor, and absorbs stoppages without TAT drift.
Read the customer case- −7 %of TAT on tracked equipment
- < 2 minto re-plan after a disruption
- 0re-planning in Excel
The vendor
What to check before equipping a fleet.
Your data stays under control
European cloud hosting or on your own infrastructure, and export of your data at any time. No irreversible dependency.
Plugged into your IT systems
ROBIN connects to the CMMS and the ERP, and feeds observed usage back to them.
- SAP
- Sage
- MES
- CMMS
No per-user cost
Equipping every cell with a screen and giving every technician access costs nothing extra.
A single point of contact
A ROBIN.Deploy project manager equips the scope with you, trains the team and stays until it is self-sufficient.
Further reading
What we write for a fleet manager.
Dynamic scheduling · Thesis
MRO scheduling: why static scheduling drags down your TAT
It is not variability that degrades TAT — it is the tool that pretends it does not exist.
Customer case · Aerospace
Reducing TAT on a landing gear shop floor
The project in detail: baseline, scope, measured results and deployment timeline.
FAQ · Maintenance and tooling
The questions we get asked in the tool crib
How is an asset located?
Via a sensor attached to the tool and beacons installed on the shop floor. The position updates automatically, with no scanning or manual entry. Depending on the required accuracy, tracking works at zone level or down to the nearest metre.
Does the entire fleet need to be equipped all at once?
No. You start with the most critical assets or those most frequently searched for — that's where the immediate gains are. The rollout then proceeds at your teams' own pace.
How does ROBIN count utilisation hours?
Based on time spent in the work zone and operations logged against the asset. These are actual recorded hours, not a calendar-based estimate.
Should we replace our CMMS?
It depends on what you need.
ROBIN can connect to your existing CMMS, or replace it: preventive and corrective maintenance, history per piece of equipment, spare parts and reliability indicators. Plus real-time tracking of your tooling if needed, and its scheduling directly in the production plan.
ROBIN also specialises in aerospace maintenance and repair: technician qualifications, regulatory traceability and management of urgent maintenance.
What happens when a machine or resource becomes unavailable?
The downtime is declared, the engine recalculates the schedule around the constraint and proposes a new sequence in about two minutes. Operations that put a customer milestone at risk are flagged, with the quantified impact.
How long does it take to equip a pilot scope?
Less than 3 months from signature to go-live, sensor installation included. Deployment happens in phases, building by building for example, then extends at your teams' pace. A ROBIN.Deploy project manager is on site during commissioning.
Take action
A fleet you no longer have to search for.
We come to see your fleet, identify the assets to equip first and define a pilot scope.