A secured room or cage, often with an attendant or vending system, that stores consumable tooling and shared equipment such as inserts, drills, taps, gauges and specialty holders. It tracks usage by job and person, keeps gauges in calibration and stops tooling from walking away. A well-run crib knows what every job consumes and reorders before anyone runs out.
Grab a fresh box of inserts and the 2-inch mic from the tool crib, and sign them out to job 4417.
Also heard as
- crib
- tool stores
Related terms
Insert
A small replaceable carbide or ceramic cutting tip clamped in a holder, indexed to a fresh edge when worn.
Jo blocks
Shop name for gauge blocks: lapped steel or ceramic blocks, accurate to millionths, stacked to make any length.
Endmill
A rotating cutter with teeth on its end and sides, the main tool for milling slots, pockets and profiles.