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Easily create custom tool tray inlays by yourself? You can now do this with the online configurator mySortimo inlay. In this article I will give you six good reasons for using Sortimo’s high-quality rigid foam inserts and how they can help you to be even more productive in your day-to-day work.
Whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist, customer service employee or measurement engineer – to carry out your professional activities and in your home workshop you need expensive tools and equipment, which should not simply end up unsorted and possibly even damaged in the drawer or tool box after use.
There is hardly anything more annoying when at work than faulty or missing tools. In front of the customer, it can very quickly appear unprofessional if you can’t find the right tool straight away, or if it doesn’t work properly due to careless storage. So that it doesn’t come to that, we have developed mySortimo inlay. These are foam inserts to store and transport your tools and equipment in an orderly, safe and well-structured manner.
Naturally, foam inserts for tools and sensitive equipment are nothing new. However, with mySortimo inlay you can design your own custom tool tray inlay online for your BOXXes, your cases or the drawers of your van racking system. This means that you can create custom inlays with every conceivable division to meet your exact requirements and you don’t have to resort to pre-configured mass-produced inlays.
To do this, you can take photos of your own tools and equipment that you want to place in the inlay and upload these photos into the configurator. Your tools are saved in your personal account in digitised format and can be retrieved again and again. You can also select tools already entered in the tool database.
mySortimo inlay is aimed at professionals and hobbyists who know exactly what they want and leave nothing to chance! Professionals who prefer order, structure and tidy systems in their everyday work and who want to transport and store their valuable tools and sensitive equipment safely. For the best possible organisation, take your time to think about which tools and equipment you’re going to transport or store in which BOXX or drawer, which tools and equipment you most frequently take with you to work sites and which arrangement would be best thematically. Surely you have gathered sufficient experience in your day-to-day work to decide which tool sets are best for which jobs.
Using individual tool tray inlays makes you significantly more productive and efficient. There are six good reasons for this:
1. A perfect overview
Whether in the drawer of your van racking system or in your toolbox – so you know exactly where which tools are located. You have a perfect overview and it only takes one specific action to find the right tool.
2. Less time searching
Everything has its own place, which reduces time spent searching for things. Not only does this make you much more productive and efficient, it also leaves a professional impression with the customer.
3. Gentle handling and less forgetting
The fact that every piece of equipment has a fixed, pre-formed place ensures that it is handled with greater care. This prevents tools from being left lying around or carelessly thrown into the box. As a result, tools and equipment last much longer because they are better cared for.
Thanks to the two-tone colour scheme of the foam insert – blue base and black top layer – missing tools are immediately noticeable. This is particularly important in sensitive industries such as the food industry or aircraft construction.
When changing vehicles before starting work, it is often crucial to be able to see at a glance whether all tools are present. The custom-fit Sortimo inlays make missing parts immediately visible. This not only saves time, but also money: because the loss or damage of high-quality tools is expensive and avoidable. With mySortimo inlay, you can reliably protect your equipment and extend its service life.
4. Faster set-up times
Once you’ve defined which tool sets are needed for which tasks and created labeled mySortimo inlays, you can grab the right one for the job. This allows your van racking system to be easily adapted for different applications.
Replacing one inlay with certain tools with another is much faster than handling individual tools. Makes sense, right? Plus, the clarity and structure that is automatically provided by the tool tray inlays also help every trainee and new employee find their way around quickly. This in turn saves you a lot of stress.
5. Avoidance doubling up
Just as the inlays help prevent forgotten tools, they also reduce unnecessary duplicates. Why? Because the rigid foam brings structure to your workflow. Imagine a drawer full of unsorted tools. How much time would you spend checking if the right screwdriver is already there?
Often, a second one is thrown in ‘just in case’. Over time, this leads to overloaded vehicles and unnecessary weight. Tools are bought multiple times, even though one is already lying unused. A structured inlay system prevents this – saving space, time, and money.
6. Ergonomics
The structure in the vehicle and product features such as the integrated recessed grips also ensure that tools can be accessed quickly, easily and ergonomically.
Last but not least: three special advantages of mySortimo
Advantage #1:
The mySortimo inlays are available to order from just 1 inlay in your custom configuration and at a fixed price – regardless how many tools or devices you want to include. You only pay the one-off price for the inlay.
Advantage #2:
Tool inlays you create are stored for you in your personal account on mySortimo.de, so you can easily reorder or customise them at any time. This is particularly practical if you purchase a new BOXX or another vehicle, as you can re-order the required tool tray inlays with just one click.
Advantage #3:
Of course you also have the option of fitting tool tray inlays into the drawers and SR drawers of the SR5 or Globelyst van racking system as well as the WorkMos you’re already using. To do this, simply select the option “SR Drawer”, “GL4 Drawers”, “SR5 Drawers” or “WorkMo” in the configurator in the first step and off you go.
Curious? Why not give it a go yourself and configure your own custom tool tray inlay!