ToolSense

Traditional spreadsheets are usually very difficult to navigate outside personal computers and laptops. They typically are calculation-oriented and lack adaptations for qualitative information. ToolSense offers an easy-to-use alternative to spreadsheets that works on both mobile and desktop platforms. It allows you to create simple profiles for all the key objects in your inventory and review them through a comfortable user interface.

It’s difficult to integrate images into traditional spreadsheet platforms. Our experience shows that images disrupt readability in Excel and Google Spreadsheets. In stark contrast to this, ToolSense focuses on image integration as a central feature. The platform has convenient tools for reviewing images, and properly integrates them into the core interface. Moreover, many additional features for visualization are present: for instance, there are separate profile visualization styles for different objects.

While traditional spreadsheet platforms like Excel have strong version history tracking, they don’t work in concert with chat apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. Consequently, losing important assets is common: it’s enough to not record a single chat interaction in an Excel spreadsheet once to start a negative feedback loop. ToolSense stands out as it solves this problem once and for all. It allows you to review all updates to an object without going through multiple versions of an Excel file and searching through disparate Telegram chats. Instead, every interaction with your tools occurs directly within the app, making version tracking simple. 

Traditional spreadsheet and chat apps don’t have any native tools for integrating tracking technologies such as IoT and QR. As a result, many companies have to come up with makeshift solutions to include GPS devices or QR codes. ToolSense targets this problem by integrating support for GPS devices and QR stickers to track and identify assets. For example, any user can register their tool or machine in ToolSense, and it’ll generate a QR sticker that can be attached to the relevant object for proper tracking. The benefits of improved tracking become obvious immediately: user testimonials on the ToolSense website highlight major time savings and a significant reduction in asset losses.

Pen-and-paper systems present major issues with communication because all reports require manual transfer of information. ToolSense eliminates this challenge by creating an instant feedback system. For example, a user can scan a QR code to quickly report some problems with a machine (an easy-to-use questionnaire is included), or update its battery status. Using the internal notification system, the maintenance teams can quickly learn about any potential production obstacles ahead of time and react to them proactively.

Modern industrial standards demand many types of safety checks. With pen and paper or spreadsheets, the process of fulfilling these requirements often turns into a major source of stress because it’s easy to miss an important routine. ToolSense solves this problem through its notification system, where a set of preconfigured profiles for different types of safety reviews can be instituted. You can configure actions that range from simple ladder reviews to complex analyses of electrical safety.