We are engineers before we are developers. Everything on this sheet started as a problem we hit on a shop floor and could not buy our way out of, so we built it. Now you can use it too.
Items on this sheet 03Released 02Free tool sheets 01
| Item | Part no | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | WS‑1001 | Sonar — tool and assembly tracking | Released |
| 02 | WS‑1002 | ALESA cutting data calculator | Released |
| 03 | WS‑1003 | Reserved — next item not yet fixed | In development |
An assembly leaves the crib, gets preset, runs on a machine, comes back blunt and goes out for regrinding. Somewhere in that loop most shops lose track of it, and the answer to "where is that holder" becomes a walk around the building.
Sonar closes the loop. Every holder and assembly carries a tag; a scan at a station is the only thing anyone has to do. From there the system knows what exists, where it is, how long it has been sitting there and who moved it last — and the shop stops buying duplicates of tools it already owns.
sonar.widescope.se ↗ Sign-in required — ask us for a walkthrough
Getting correct starting values out of a tooling catalogue means holding four pages open at once: the tool, the insert selection chart, the coating matrix, the Vc band for the material class — then the hm table for the feed, and the chip-thinning arithmetic by hand. Most programmers do it once, write the numbers on a sticky note, and reuse them on the wrong material.
This does the whole lookup in a browser, from the catalogue's own tables. Where the catalogue has no value for a combination, it says so instead of printing a number — and a family that is not rated for slotting is refused, not answered.
Open the calculator ↗ Independent tool · not affiliated with ALESA Ltd
Both items above began the same way: something on a floor was being tracked on paper, calculated by hand, or not measured at all — and no product on the market fitted the shop closely enough to be worth the licence. So we built the thing that did.
Item 03 is reserved. If you recognise that description in your own production, that conversation is where the next one comes from.
Alongside the items above we publish single-purpose shop sheets and give them away. Each one is a single page that works the answer out from the standard's own geometry instead of reprinting a chart, names the standards it works to, and says plainly where it stops and what it does not cover.
They exist because we needed them ourselves. They are also the fairest sample we can offer: a shop that can check our arithmetic on a free sheet knows what the items above are built like. More are on the way.
| Sheet | Title | Works to | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Core holes — thread drilling reference ↗ Pick a thread and the sheet gives you the cutting-tap drill, the form-tap hole and the thread-mill bore, with the hole window and the entry chamfer — and draws a live section through the hole to the thread you picked. Metric coarse and fine, UNC, UNF, BSPP and BSW. | ISO 261 · ISO 965-1 · ASME B1.1 · ISO 228 | Open |
A short call is usually enough to tell whether one of these fits, whether it needs adapting, or whether the honest answer is that you do not need software at all. No sales presentation, no obligation.