Abstract: This paper discusses management methods of airplane manufacture firms' tooling planning and gives a new mode of tooling planning management with multi-level planning. This mode can combine the product requirement with tooling production and assure delivering tooling required on time. In the meantime, the analysis on the status of tooling production resources will not only discover several relevant problems and put forward a new planning to meet tooling requirement but also assure enough resource to carry out the planning. The utility of the mode has taken effect.

Key words: too ling, planning, multi-level planning, main schedule planning, indust rial eng ineering