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Record tool runtime

Enter how long a tool ran when it comes back from a machine.

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Prerequisites: A tool has been running in a machine and is being returned from it.

Required permission: Inventory → Return Lists — User or above, to validate the Return List the usage step opens from. Admins can validate any return list; Managers and Users only the return lists they created.

Tooling Metrics doesn’t log runtime as a separate entry you create on the tool record — it’s captured in one step, right when the tool physically leaves the machine.

Record runtime on return

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  1. Process the Return List for the machine the tool is coming from, and click Validate.
  2. A Record cutting edge usage step opens automatically, grouping the mounted cutting edges under every tool that just came back from that machine.
  3. For each cutting edge, set the toggle to Add to to add the latest run to its current usage, or Set total to replace the total, then enter the value.
  4. Toggle Broken if that cutting edge failed during the run.
  5. Click Save usage. (Click Skip to close the step without recording usage.)

The Record cutting edge usage overlay with the mounted edges of four returned tools grouped under each tool, showing usage life, remaining life and condition, an Add to / Set total switch with its value, and Broken, with Skip and Save usage (full size)

Fig. 1: Record cutting edge usage — appears automatically after validating a return list or tool transfer from a machine.

What happens next

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  • Usage Life on each cutting edge increases by the amount entered (or is replaced by it, with Set total), and Remaining Life (Life Limit minus Usage Life) recalculates.
  • Condition recalculates for each cutting edge from its new Usage Life / Life Limit ratio — moving to Pre-warning at 80% consumed, Warning at 95%, and Expired at 100% — unless you marked the edge Broken, in which case its Condition is set to Broken directly.
  • Saving cutting edge usage does not change any Serialized Item’s condition. Service thresholds (usage time, cycles, or cost) on serialized pieces are a separate mechanism — see Track tool condition.

Notes

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  • Usage cost is never posted when runtime is recorded. For cost-per-pick items it is posted at the moment a Tool Transfer or Pick List lands the tool (or an item picked directly onto it) on a machine; every item currently assembled in the tool posts its own cost line at that moment. For time-based items it is posted once a day (around 23:30 in the organization’s time zone) for every item still on a machine, covering the hours since it arrived or since its last posting. See Review a tool’s lifecycle history to see posted costs.
  • When a cutting edge is later replaced, its accumulated Usage Life is captured as a Life History entry on the tool, and Usage Life resets to zero for the new edge.

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