Use case · Machine sharing
Put a lock on your machines. Open the front door.
Sharing machines is a no-brainer, from both a sustainability and a financial perspective. The reason most organisations don't do it is risk: misuse, breakage, messy cost allocation, anonymous users. Toolsquare removes every one of those barriers.
What sharing unlocks
More ROI. Less CAPEX. Better culture.
More ROI. Less CAPEX. Better culture.
A smart lock on your equipment means you can remove the lock from your organisation. Share machines inside your organisation, across sites, or with external partners. You keep full control over who accesses what, and every usage flows into clean billing.
Higher ROI on existing equipment.
Postpone or avoid new investments.
Lower maintenance cost per usage hour.
New revenue streams from external sharing.
Knowledge exchange across user groups.
Bonus
Sharing drives innovation.
Sharing drives innovation.
Sharing creates encounters between people with different backgrounds and expertise. In science and industry, that exchange is one of the best-known accelerators of innovation, and it's the quiet upside of the financial story.
Inside the platform - operational view
What the operational dashboards show.
Everything that keeps the day running: live machine status, open issues, planning conflicts, upcoming maintenance. For the people running the lab or the workshop.
Inside the platform - operational view
What the operational dashboards show.
Everything that keeps the day running: live machine status, open issues, planning conflicts, upcoming maintenance. For the people running the lab or the workshop.
Inside the platform - operational view
What the operational dashboards show.
Everything that keeps the day running: live machine status, open issues, planning conflicts, upcoming maintenance. For the people running the lab or the workshop.
The product at a glance
Software at the core. Hardware where it counts.
Toolsquare is built around a cloud platform that manages your equipment, users and data. Add the Toolsquare unit on the machines where you need physical access control and automatic, tamper-proof usage tracking.
Software · cloud-native
The platform
A single portal for your equipment portfolio. Booking, asset management, access rules, incident reports, analytics and compliance reporting in one place.
Booking & scheduling
Rules per user, group or time slot
Asset management
Every machine, every cost, every contract in one view
Access management
Training-based, role-based and supervisor rules
Issue & incident reporting
Reported at the machine, routed to the right person
Analytics & dashboards
Utilisation, downtime, TCO, chargeback
Audit trail
GxP, ISO, 21 CFR Part 11 · immutable & exportable
Open API & integrations
LIMS, ELN, ERP, BI tools, SSO
Hardware · IoT device · Standard tier
The Toolsquare unit
A physical device installed on specific machines. Three components in one enclosure: an NFC reader, a touch screen, an integrated processor. Acts as a smart lock and a tamper-proof data logger in one.
NFC reader
Any badge: student card, employee card, even a bank card
Touch screen
Session start/stop, issue reporting, reservation view
Integrated processor
Direct machine control with local logic that works offline
Physical access control
The machine unlocks only for authorised users
Activity-tracking mode
Auto pause and resume on idle, for precision & production equipment
Universal compatibility
Every brand: single-phase, three-phase, computer-controlled
Three packages. Same platform. Different reach.
Free
Software-only asset management, up to 49 machines
Basic
Full web platform with booking and access management, no hardware
Standard
Most popular
Platform + Toolsquare unit, with hardware-level access and usage data
Want to know what it costs?
Pricing is volume-based and applied across your full equipment portfolio.
The product at a glance
Software at the core. Hardware where it counts.
Toolsquare is built around a cloud platform that manages your equipment, users and data. Add the Toolsquare unit on the machines where you need physical access control and automatic, tamper-proof usage tracking.
Software · cloud-native
The platform
A single portal for your equipment portfolio. Booking, asset management, access rules, incident reports, analytics and compliance reporting in one place.
Booking & scheduling
Rules per user, group or time slot
Asset management
Every machine, every cost, every contract in one view
Access management
Training-based, role-based and supervisor rules
Issue & incident reporting
Reported at the machine, routed to the right person
Analytics & dashboards
Utilisation, downtime, TCO, chargeback
Audit trail
GxP, ISO, 21 CFR Part 11 · immutable & exportable
Open API & integrations
LIMS, ELN, ERP, BI tools, SSO
Hardware · IoT device · Standard tier
The Toolsquare unit
A physical device installed on specific machines. Three components in one enclosure: an NFC reader, a touch screen, an integrated processor. Acts as a smart lock and a tamper-proof data logger in one.
NFC reader
Any badge: student card, employee card, even a bank card
Touch screen
Session start/stop, issue reporting, reservation view
Integrated processor
Direct machine control with local logic that works offline
Physical access control
The machine unlocks only for authorised users
Activity-tracking mode
Auto pause and resume on idle, for precision & production equipment
Universal compatibility
Every brand: single-phase, three-phase, computer-controlled
Three packages. Same platform. Different reach.
Free
Software-only asset management, up to 49 machines
Basic
Full web platform with booking and access management, no hardware
Standard
Most popular
Platform + Toolsquare unit, with hardware-level access and usage data
Want to know what it costs?
Pricing is volume-based and applied across your full equipment portfolio.
The product at a glance
Software at the core. Hardware where it counts.
Toolsquare is built around a cloud platform that manages your equipment, users and data. Add the Toolsquare unit on the machines where you need physical access control and automatic, tamper-proof usage tracking.
Software · cloud-native
The platform
A single portal for your equipment portfolio. Booking, asset management, access rules, incident reports, analytics and compliance reporting in one place.
Booking & scheduling
Rules per user, group or time slot
Asset management
Every machine, every cost, every contract in one view
Access management
Training-based, role-based and supervisor rules
Issue & incident reporting
Reported at the machine, routed to the right person
Analytics & dashboards
Utilisation, downtime, TCO, chargeback
Audit trail
GxP, ISO, 21 CFR Part 11 · immutable & exportable
Open API & integrations
LIMS, ELN, ERP, BI tools, SSO
Hardware · IoT device · Standard tier
The Toolsquare unit
A physical device installed on specific machines. Three components in one enclosure: an NFC reader, a touch screen, an integrated processor. Acts as a smart lock and a tamper-proof data logger in one.
NFC reader
Any badge: student card, employee card, even a bank card
Touch screen
Session start/stop, issue reporting, reservation view
Integrated processor
Direct machine control with local logic that works offline
Physical access control
The machine unlocks only for authorised users
Activity-tracking mode
Auto pause and resume on idle, for precision & production equipment
Universal compatibility
Every brand: single-phase, three-phase, computer-controlled
Three packages. Same platform. Different reach.
Free
Software-only asset management, up to 49 machines
Basic
Full web platform with booking and access management, no hardware
Standard
Most popular
Platform + Toolsquare unit, with hardware-level access and usage data
Want to know what it costs?
Pricing is volume-based and applied across your full equipment portfolio.
The product at a glance
Software at the core. Hardware where it counts.
Toolsquare is built around a cloud platform that manages your equipment, users and data. Add the Toolsquare unit on the machines where you need physical access control and automatic, tamper-proof usage tracking.
Software · cloud-native
The platform
A single portal for your equipment portfolio. Booking, asset management, access rules, incident reports, analytics and compliance reporting in one place.
Booking & scheduling
Rules per user, group or time slot
Asset management
Every machine, every cost, every contract in one view
Access management
Training-based, role-based and supervisor rules
Issue & incident reporting
Reported at the machine, routed to the right person
Analytics & dashboards
Utilisation, downtime, TCO, chargeback
Audit trail
GxP, ISO, 21 CFR Part 11 · immutable & exportable
Open API & integrations
LIMS, ELN, ERP, BI tools, SSO
Hardware · IoT device · Standard tier
The Toolsquare unit
A physical device installed on specific machines. Three components in one enclosure: an NFC reader, a touch screen, an integrated processor. Acts as a smart lock and a tamper-proof data logger in one.
NFC reader
Any badge: student card, employee card, even a bank card
Touch screen
Session start/stop, issue reporting, reservation view
Integrated processor
Direct machine control with local logic that works offline
Physical access control
The machine unlocks only for authorised users
Activity-tracking mode
Auto pause and resume on idle, for precision & production equipment
Universal compatibility
Every brand: single-phase, three-phase, computer-controlled
Three packages. Same platform. Different reach.
Free
Software-only asset management, up to 49 machines
Basic
Full web platform with booking and access management, no hardware
Standard
Most popular
Platform + Toolsquare unit, with hardware-level access and usage data
Want to know what it costs?
Pricing is volume-based and applied across your full equipment portfolio.
Unlock the ROI hidden in your equipment portfolio.
Unlock the ROI hidden in your equipment portfolio.
See how our customers share machines across teams and sites.