One-piece size

Up to 4 × 8 ft

Printed in one pass on a 98 × 51 in bed

Board

ACM, 3 or 6 mm

Aluminum skins, flat, light, wipeable

Arrives

Hooks fitted

Holes routed, hardware installed, ready to hang

Turnaround

1-day quote

Ships 5–10 business days after proof approval and payment

The board’s whole job is to make a missing tool visible at a glance. That breaks when the outline is a vinyl cut-out that peels at the corners, when the hooks were drilled by hand afterwards and the tool hangs half outside its shadow, or when the pegboard has a hundred holes and the tools wander.

We print the silhouette and route only the holes that tool needs, from one file. The hook can only go where the outline is, the tool can only hang one way, and an empty space reads as empty.

Pegboard and tape

Outlines traced in marker, hooks anywhere on the grid, tools migrate within a month, and nobody can tell what is missing.

Printed and routed

Full-color silhouettes, a label under every tool, holes only where hooks belong, hardware installed, and a file on record to reorder identically.

Tool shadow boards

Wall boards for a cell, a line or a maintenance crib, sized to the tool set. Silhouettes in the cell’s color, the tool name and size printed under each, the board’s ID in the header.

Cabinet-door & cart panels

Thin 3 mm panels cut to fit inside a cabinet door or on a cart side, with the mounting holes matched to the cabinet you already own.

Cleaning & PPE stations

Brooms, squeegees, dustpans, spill kits, face shields and ear protection, each with a printed home, so the station tells the next shift what belongs on it.

5S & visual-management boards

Red-tag boards, area maps, standard-work and changeover boards, and printed backers that frame the documents a cell posts.

One

The outlines are drawn from the real tools

A silhouette that is a catalog clip-art wrench does not match the wrench on the floor. We draw each outline from a full-size tracing of your tools, or from the tools themselves if you ship a set. A PDF proof shows every outline, label and hole at scale before anything is printed.

Two

The print and the holes share one origin

The Mimaki UV flatbed prints the board and the CNC router cuts the outline and every hook hole from the same file, so hole and silhouette agree on the board. Split those across a print shop and a drill and the hooks wander out of the shadows.

Three

The board is ACM, not hardboard

Aluminum composite is two aluminum skins bonded to a polyethylene core. It stays flat across a 4 × 8 ft span, does not swell with humidity the way hardboard does, and wipes clean. Use 6 mm for wall boards carrying heavy tools and 3 mm for cabinet doors.

1  Lay it out

Arrange the tools on paper at the board size the way you want them, trace each one, and write its name beside it. Or ship us the tool set and we return it with the board.

2  Quote

Send photos of the layout with a tape measure in frame, the board size, colors and quantity. You get a number within a business day.

3  Proof

A PDF proof at scale with every outline, label and hole. A physical proof is available and credited if the order proceeds.

4  Ship

Printed, routed, hardware installed, packed flat or crated. The file stays on record, so board seven matches board one.

How do you get the shape of our tools?

Two ways. Trace each tool on paper at full size in the arrangement you want and mail the sheet, or ship us the tool set and we trace it here and send it back with the board. Either way, you approve a PDF proof at scale before anything is printed.

Can I order one board?

Yes. Quantity one and up with no tooling charge, and a $200 minimum order. Layout and art time appear as their own line on the quote, so a second identical board costs only the board.

What is the largest board you make?

48 × 96 in in one piece, printed in a single pass on a 98.4 × 51.2 in flatbed. A wall larger than that is built as matched panels from one layout file, so the header and color bands line up across the joints.

What happens when our tool set changes?

Send the change and we revise the file. Because the print and the holes come from one layout, a revised board is a file edit, not a redraw, and identical boards for other cells reorder from the same file.

Can a board go outdoors?

Yes, laminated. Boards are built for indoor cells as standard; for an outdoor or yard station we laminate over the print, because Mimaki specifies a laminate or overcoat for this ink outdoors.

Do shadow boards satisfy AS9146 tool control?

A board is one physical tool inside a FOD prevention program, not the program. It makes a missing tool obvious, which supports the accountability the AS9146 guidance asks for. Your procedures, audits and certification stay with your quality team.

Do you take purchase orders?

Businesses pay by card or ACH when the order is placed; a W-9 is available on request. Government agencies and schools can order on a purchase order with net terms on orders of $3,000 or more.