Your best mechanic loses about 20 minutes a day walking to the tool room. That’s the number we kept hearing when we asked shop foremen how often their guys leave the workstation for tools. Fourteen trips a day is normal. More on assembly-heavy days. A minute and a half per round trip — walk there, find the right tool, walk back. Twenty minutes, gone, every single day. Do the math over a month: 22 working days, that’s seven-plus hours. Over a year, more than 80 hours. Two full working weeks a year, spent on walking, not on work. Nobody’s lazy here. It’s the layout. Tools live too far from the work. The farther the tool room is, the less people want to walk. So tools start “living” at the workstation — one wrench stuffed in the workbench drawer, another hanging on a rack, another buried in a toolbox. A month in, tools are everywhere and nowhere. You need one, it’s gone. Looking for tools takes longer than using them. Every shop manager talks about “tool control problems.” Almost none of them see the root cause: the tools don’t move with the person. A mobile tool cabinet for the workshop floor fixes exactly that. Mobile…