Toollive innovates 4 new digital services within a year using Cumulocity
Customer success story

Toollive innovates 4 new digital services within a year using Cumulocity

Read how Toollive uses Cumulocity to improve aerospace tooling management—boosting visibility, enabling predictive maintenance, and creating new business models.

Customer

Toollive is reimagining how the aerospace industry manages, tracks, and services high-value tooling. Their mission is to provide digital solutions that improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and unlock new business models for aerospace tooling.
Toollive

Challenges

  • Lack of visibility and tracking difficulties: Customers couldn’t easily see if equipment was ready for use or where it was located, leading to delays and inefficiencies.
  • Limited maintenance intelligence: Maintenance was reactive, not predictive.
  • No centralized data: Information was scattered across systems and not easily accessible.
  • No leasing marketplace: Customers had no way to find or borrow tools during shortages.
  • Technology gaps: Their original custom-built platform couldn’t scale or adapt quickly enough to meet growing business needs.

Outcomes

  • Fast, lean launch: Toollive launched its first service in just 4 months with a two-person team—fully operational across 5 airline customers with 7,000+ assets onboarded in the first year.

  • Rapid expansion and scalability: Grew from 250 to 750 connected devices in just 8 months, with a pipeline targeting 1,000+ more.

  • Real-time visibility and automation: Tracking 40,000+ critical assets in real time, improving transparency, access, and reducing downtime.

  • New revenue and profitability: Tool Leasing service alone generated enough ROI to make Toollive profitable in its first year.

  • Digital differentiation: Launched 4 new digital services in 11 months, establishing a future-ready, digital-first service portfolio.

We needed a platform that could do more than just connect devices—it needed to enable digital services and business innovation.
Paul-Emmanuel Faidherbe

Paul-Emmanuel Faidherbe

CTO

Toollive

Details

Toollive needed a platform that balanced flexibility with a clear business focus; fast, scalable, and easy to integrate with ERP, CRM, and external systems. Their CTO already knew Cumulocity from his work as a system integrator and trusted its ability to deliver results.

With Cumulocity, Toollive developed and launched a suite of digital services that redefined tooling management:

  • Tool Leasing Marketplace: Renting specialized tools during shortages—creating new revenue streams.
  • Tool Park Management: A centralized dashboard for all tools, maintenance records, documents, and external integrations.
  • Tool Tracking: Real-time GPS tracking for high-value tools with geofencing and alerts.
  • Tool Services: End-to-end lifecycle management from quote to retirement.
  • Cockpit Dashboard: Customer-facing status view with predictive maintenance insights.

All of this was built on Cumulocity’s scalable, microservice-based architecture, integrated with Toollive’s existing systems.

Don’t reinvent the wheel—build your own business rocket. Cumulocity let us focus on what matters: solving real business problems. In just four months, we built what would’ve taken years with custom development. The platform strikes the perfect balance: flexible enough to adapt, but focused enough to deliver value. — Paul-Emmanuel Faidherbe, CTO, Toollive

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