Aerospace
Maintain complete tool accountability in environments where quality, safety, and compliance leave no room for uncertainty. KIT helps aerospace manufacturers stay audit-ready while keeping production moving.
Why KIT?
Because operational excellence starts with trusted tools.
Every day, manufacturing teams face the same challenges: missing tools, overdue calibrations, time-consuming audits, inconsistent standards, and a lack of visibility across sites and departments.
We believe production should never be disrupted by uncertainty.
That’s why we built KIT: to give engineering, quality, and operations teams complete confidence in the tools and equipment they rely on every day.
With real-time visibility, automated workflows, and effortless accountability, KIT helps teams stay productive, compliant, and audit-ready without adding administrative burden.
Keep manufacturing moving. Stay in control.
How KIT helps the modern factory
Whether you’re managing hand tools, calibrated equipment, gauges, fixtures, assets, or COSHH items, KIT creates a single source of truth across your operation.
Our visual tool control platform enables manufacturers to:
- Prevent tool losses and FOD incidents
- Simplify audits and compliance
- Automate calibration schedules and reminders
- Improve traceability and accountability
- Standardise tooling across teams and sites
- Gain real-time visibility of inventory status
- Reduce administrative effort and manual processes
Because when everyone trusts the system, everyone works more efficiently.
Tour the factory floor
Hover over the numbered hotspots on the factory floor to find out how our KIT software and visual workspace organisation solutions impact operations and click on them to find out more.
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Tool calibration
KIT’s automated scheduling and tracking of external calibrations and internal validations makes compliance effortless.
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Tool audits
KIT makes visual tool audits quick and easy, providing visibility and curbing tool losses and FOD incidents.
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The KIT Dashboard
Real-time insight of tooling inventory status at the click of a button.
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COSHH management
KIT makes key safety data and risk assessments accessible whilst managing COSHH inventory.
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Tool standardisation
KIT helps maintain a blueprint for your tooling that avoids confusion, reduces training and assures quality.
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Inventory management
KIT gives total visibility and traceability of all tools and equipment wherever and however they are stored.
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Foam inlays
Coplan’s foams provide highly visual, efficient and reliable organisation and protection of valuable tools and equipment, making them quicker, easier and safer to find and handle.
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Shadow boards
Coplan’s shadow boards offer a clear, highly visual way to organise tools and equipment, while keeping floors and workbenches clutter‑free.
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Aerospace protective foams
Coplan’s custom-designed heavy-duty foam protection and packaging solutions that safeguard valuable aerospace components in storage and transit.
Keep Manufacturing Moving
Missing tools, failed audits, overdue calibrations, uncontrolled inventory.
These aren’t tooling problems. They’re production problems. KIT helps manufacturers prevent disruption before it happens.
Reduce costs
Prevent unnecessary tool purchases, minimise downtime, reduce inventory waste, and stop tool creep before it drives unnecessary spending.
Fewer losses. Lower costs. Better control.
Improve efficiency
Speed up audits, simplify calibration management, and give teams instant access to the information they need to do their jobs.
Less administration. More productive time.
Strengthen compliance & accountability
Ensure every tool has ownership, traceability, and a documented history. Maintain confidence in audits, inspections, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Always audit-ready. Always in control.
Frequently Asked Questions
All you need to know!
What equipment or assets can KIT track?
Whilst originally built for tracking your tool inventory, this has expanded to cover almost any equipment you can imagine, including balances, scales, load cells, pressure gauges, jigs, fixtures and all manner of COSHH materials, such as paints, adhesives and solvents. KIT can track it all.
Can KIT help you know what tools are broken or missing and make it easy to replace them?
100%. And reporting broken or missing tools is no longer reliant on word of mouth. Anyone with access to KIT and the right permissions can report a missing or broken tool and it will appear within the reporting and the dashboard instantly, so that decisions can be made without delay about whether to repair or replace the item.
How many tools or assets can KIT track?
There is no limit. KIT has been built to scale with your business. We have customers managing tool inventories of over 20,000 individual items across multiple sites and KIT gives them instant visibility and control.
Is KIT limited to being used on a specific computer?
No. KIT has been designed as a cloud-based solution that is not tied to you using a specific device. Users can log into KIT on any device with an internet browser connection and you can connect from anywhere in the world. For busy operations leads who regularly travel between sites, this means they can get pace of mind wherever they are, on a laptop, smartphone or tablet.
What challenges does KIT solve?
Inventory management of all your tools and equipment for all your sites in a single system. Tool audits that are quick, simple and effective. Painless automation of tool calibration and check schedules. Instant visibility of any missing or broken tools. Prevention of tool creep and introduction of non-standard tools and the ability to create shopping lists of replacement requirements for your preferred tooling partner. A complete digital twin of all your tool inventory. Intelligent tool control made simple.
Can KIT save you money?
Yes. Not only can KIT save you money, but it will. Whether that is in reducing downtime, reducing tooling inventory costs, improving efficiency, reducing product recalls or rework, reducing audit or compliance issues, speeding up time taken preparing and conducting audits and tool calibrations. KIT will make savings across the board and will be a system that your team enjoy using.
How will KIT keep you compliant with calibration requirements?
KIT empowers organisations to define calibration policies and schedules that meet their industry, customer and internal quality control requirements. KIT provides easy to use tools, alerts and functions to record calibration check results and external calibration records, produce or store certificates, all of which can be pulled up instantly on demand. With data visibility through reports and dashboard statistics that can notify you of upcoming and overdue calibrations, there is no reason why your calibrations should ever be in question again.
Will KIT help you with audits?
Auditors love KIT. It’s a single system that provides all your tooling inventory records in one place and shows that your business has proper controls and processes in place with clear reporting and instant access to the detail. It makes proving compliance quick and easy, and makes audits short and sweet.
How easy is KIT to use?
KIT has been designed to be intuitive and users typically pick it up very quickly and because of its simplicity and the fact that they trust the data it provides, they embrace it and that is when the real change happens. Effortless accountability and visibility without having to continually force users to do their job.
Is KIT secure?
Yes. KIT is a responsive, Cloud-based web application hosted on Microsoft Azure in London, using managed AppServices and a managed SQL database. Data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, with the database backed up every 12 hours. SSO through an OAuth 2.0 authentication provider can also be supported if required.
Stop chasing tools. Start improving operations.
See how leading manufacturers use KIT to reduce downtime, stay audit-ready, and give their teams the confidence to perform at their best.
KIT® is a registered trademark of Coplan Ltd
Coplan Ltd, 28 Vincent Avenue, Crownhill, Milton Keynes, MK8 0AB
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KIT® is a registered trademark of Coplan Ltd
Coplan Ltd, 28 Vincent Avenue, Crownhill, Milton Keynes, MK8 0AB
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