TOOLWATCHEvery machine, every mold, every shot
TOOLWATCH is the ZEQIO product for injection molding operations and the customers who own the molds. It answers the questions that used to require a phone call: how many shots, what condition, which machine, when serviced.
The problem TOOLWATCH solves
Automotive and truck manufacturers invest in the molds their plastic part suppliers use. Those molds have a defined life — typically 10 years or 1,000,000 shots. Today the mold owner cannot see how many shots have been fired, whether maintenance was performed on time, or which machine the mold is currently mounted on. Every answer requires a phone call to the supplier or a site visit.
- Mold owners have no live visibility into their own assets
- Missed maintenance shortens tool life and nobody notices until it fails
- Shot counts are disputed between supplier and customer
- Production status is only available by asking someone
How it works
Instrument the mold
A TOOLWATCH sensor mounted on the mold counts every open-close cycle and records temperature and vibration signatures.
Connect the machine
A TOOLWATCH gateway reads machine state, cycle time and production counters over OPC-UA, Modbus or I/O.
Stream to the cloud
Data is buffered at the edge and streamed over TLS to the ZEQIO cloud, with automatic recovery after network loss.
See it live
Supplier and mold owner each see a permission-scoped dashboard: output, tool life, status, maintenance and history.
Your entire plant, in one live view
Every figure below is live demo data, refreshed the way the real TOOLWATCH interface behaves on the shop floor.
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Capabilities
Production Monitoring
Live machine state, order progress, produced quantity and cycle time per machine and per shift.
Mold Monitoring
Which mold is on which machine, how many shots today, and whether it is currently in production.
Tool Life Management
Remaining life in shots and years, with forecast dates based on actual production rate.
Maintenance Tracking
Last service, next service, overdue warnings and complete maintenance history per mold.
Downtime Analysis
Reason-coded stops, Pareto ranking and cost attribution across machines and shifts.
OEE
Availability, performance and quality calculated automatically from machine data.
Sensor Monitoring
Temperature, pressure, vibration and custom analog channels with alarm thresholds.
Machine Connectivity
OPC-UA, Modbus TCP/RTU, MQTT, EUROMAP and raw I/O for older machines.
Reports
Automated shift, daily, weekly and monthly reports delivered by email or API.
Analytics
Compare molds, machines, shifts and plants across any period.
Historical Data
Years of second-level production history, queryable and exportable.
Role-Based Access
Separate, isolated views for supplier teams and mold-owning customers.
Two audiences, one truth
For the plastic part supplier
- See every machine and mold in one screen
- Prove maintenance compliance to your customer
- Reduce disputes about shot counts and tool wear
- Improve OEE with reason-coded downtime
For the mold owner (OEM)
- Live shot counts on the molds you paid for
- Maintenance status without a single phone call
- Remaining tool life and replacement forecasting
- Production visibility across multiple suppliers
Edge hardware built for the shop floor
Rugged, industrial-grade gateways that connect injection machines, molds and sensors to the ZEQIO cloud — without touching machine PLC logic.
TOOLWATCH Mold Sensor
Mold-mounted shot counter with vibration, temperature and cycle detection. Battery life up to 5 years.
- Shot counting
- IP67 housing
- 5-year battery
- BLE + LoRa
TOOLWATCH Edge Node
Compact edge gateway with local buffering, MQTT publishing and secure cloud sync over Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
- Local buffering
- MQTT / TLS
- Wi-Fi + Ethernet
- OTA updates
TOOLWATCH Machine Gateway
Multi-channel industrial gateway for injection machines: OPC-UA, Modbus TCP/RTU, digital I/O and analog sensors.
- OPC-UA / Modbus
- 8× digital I/O
- 4× analog in
- DIN-rail mount
Measurable results, not dashboards for their own sake
ZEQIO customers use the platform to move numbers that the finance team also cares about.
Increase OEE
Expose the hidden losses between planned and actual output.
Reduce Downtime
Reason-coded stops make the top three causes obvious within a week.
Lower Scrap
Catch process drift before it becomes a rejected batch.
Improve Cycle Time
Compare identical molds across machines and standardize on the best.
Predict Failures
Shot-based maintenance replaces calendar guesswork.
Increase Productivity
Operators stop hunting for data and start acting on it.
Lower Maintenance Costs
Service molds when they actually need it — not too early, never too late.
Better Production Decisions
One version of the truth shared by supplier and mold owner.
Questions manufacturers ask us
Everything about the platform, deployment, connectivity and security.
ZEQIO is the Factory Intelligence and Industrial IoT software brand of Eromex Industri AB. It connects machines, molds, sensors and production systems into one platform. TOOLWATCH is the first product built on ZEQIO — a Production Intelligence System focused on injection molding, machine performance and mold life.
Ready to Build a Smarter Factory?
See ZEQIO and TOOLWATCH running on real production data. A 30-minute demo is usually enough to know whether this fits your plant.
No obligation. We can also connect a single test machine before you decide.