Tool Control for Aerospace
Delivering solutions that deliver FOD/Tool Control improvements is our passion. Whilst everyone recognises the importance of tool control within the Aerospace industry, Coplan have always seen it as our job to help enhance and develop solutions where possible.
Foreign objects will always be difficult to monitor but ensuring that all tools are accounted for and not misplaced goes a long way to helping organisations with their compliance.
We love working with clients to enhance FOD/Tool control processes and have successfully helped to deliver:
- Visual Tool Control (VTC) solutions that easily identify tools not returned
- Mobile FOD tool control bags housing all required tools for off-site maintenance
- Electronic solutions to restrict access of tools to authorised, trained users only
- Electronic audits demonstrating controlled access and FOD reports
- Automated tool calibration control
Tool control… your control

Tool Access Control
Controlling and auditing the access to tools is an important process that all organisations should follow during a build and manufacturing process. The implications of missing or lost tools can be severe and traditional methods such as manual sign-out sheets can be flawed and difficult to manage.
Coplan have delivered access solutions to clients that automate the access to tools whilst also recording the issue and receipt. Not only does this help our customers with the compliance around recording access but it also provides many efficiencies: removing the requirement for paper-based reports, reducing downtime and removing the need for personnel to manage the process.
The solutions we offer can:
• Restrict access to certain tool kits/boxes to only authorised personnel on a kit by kit basis
• Provide instant audits to log who has accessed which tool kit(s) and when
• Restrict further access to tool kits in instances where all tools are not confirmed as replaced
• Restrict access to tools that are not within their calibration allowance
• Provide custom reports and alerts to Senior staff