Turn every mold into a managed asset not a scheduling guess
Mold Management for Manufacturing adds the tooling layer standard Odoo MRP is missing — wear, maintenance, cost and availability, visible the moment a manufacturing order is created.
The problem
Standard Odoo MRP schedules by product and work center only — it has no concept of which mold must be mounted, whether that mold is free, or how much life it has left. Planners reconcile mold conflicts by hand in spreadsheets and discover double-booked or worn-out tooling only on the shop floor, stalling production with no advance warning.
The solution
Mold Management for Manufacturing makes the mold a first-class asset: compatible work centers, per-product cycle times, wear and maintenance tracking, predictive end-of-life forecasting, and utilization/cost analytics — all surfaced automatically on the manufacturing order so conflicts are visible before release, not on the floor.
A complete tooling layer for MRP
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Molds Across Every Process
Model each mold or die as its own record and assign it to the work centers it can run on — injection, blow, extrusion, milling, stamping or casting — so scheduling always knows where a tool is allowed to mount.
Cycle Time Per Product
Record a cycle time, cavity count and extra cost for every product a mold produces, because the same mold runs at different rates for different parts — a single per-product cycle time is not enough.
Mold Auto-Populates on the Order
The moment a manufacturing order's product requires tooling, the correct compatible mold is proposed automatically — no manual lookup, no guessing which die to pull.
Conflict Signal Before Release
A clear banner on the manufacturing order shows at a glance whether the assigned mold is available, booked by another order, under maintenance or past end-of-life, so blockers surface at the moment of planning, not on the shop floor.
Wear & Lifecycle Tracking
Every mold carries a rated life in cycles, a running cycles-used count and a wear percentage, rolling up into a Good, Warning or Critical health signal so worn tooling never slips into a live order unnoticed.
Maintenance Log & Scheduling
Log preventive, corrective and inspection services against each mold with technician, downtime and cost, and track them through Scheduled, In Progress, Done and Cancelled states on a dedicated calendar.
Predictive Wear Forecasting
Using recent production activity, the app projects an end-of-life date and a next-service date for every mold, giving planners advance warning before an unplanned failure halts the line.
Utilization & Cost Analytics
A usage log captures every production run automatically, feeding pivot and graph views of mold utilization, workload distribution and cost — including true cost allocation by mold-product combination.
Mounted-Machine Visibility
Each mold's form shows the work center it is currently mounted on and the manufacturing order running it, so changeover teams always know where a tool physically is.
How it works
Register Your Molds
Create a mold record with its process type, compatible work centers, rated life and acquisition cost.
Link Products & Cycle Times
Add a cycle time, cavity count and extra cost for every product the mold produces.
Molds Appear on Orders
Manufacturing orders for a tooled product auto-populate the right mold and show its availability at a glance.
Wear, Service & Cost Track Themselves
Completed orders log cycles automatically, updating wear, forecasts and utilization and cost analytics in real time.
Frequently asked
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No. It is built directly on top of standard MRP (it depends only on mrp and mail) and adds a mold field and availability banner to the existing manufacturing order — your current workflow, work centers and bills of materials stay exactly as they are.
Buy it on the Odoo App Store
Purchase, download and install directly from the official Odoo Apps Store — you'll always get the latest supported build.
Mold Management for Manufacturing
Molds auto-populate on manufacturing orders with a conflict signal before release, plus wear tracking, maintenance scheduling, predictive wear forecasting and utilization analytics.
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