Tool vendors must do more to combat theft says show guests
Posted: Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Tool manufacturers must do more to combat tool theft. Speaking on The Clive Holland Show this week, Greg Smith, Conservative MP for Buckingham, called on manufacturers to build tracking technology into their product design as a matter of course. “The more manufacturers can put in sophisticated tracking devices that can’t be frozen out, or easily prized out with a screwdriver, that are well hidden and embedded in the product, the better,” said the Tory backbencher. “If we can get the ‘Markitas’ and all the other tool manufacturers to do that as a matter of course, rather than as an added bonus or extra on a product, that will certainly help,” he added. Another guest on the show, Dave Finnegan, owner of Elwood Enterprises and carpenter by trade agreed with Smith. If Apple can allow users to track phones and ear-buds, surely it shouldn’t be too hard for tool manufacturers to add similar features to their equipment and manage it via a smart phone app. “I am sure it would be a fairly simple process to put something in place where you can have your tools added to your app, then you know where they are. You have it with Apple technology… why can’t you have that with tools?,” said Finnegan.
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