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Review a tool's lifecycle history

Trace everything a tool has been through — movements, assemblies, posted costs, and recorded lives — from one record.

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Prerequisites: The tool has been in use — picked, transferred, or run on machines. New tools have empty history tabs.

Required permission: Production → Tools — User or above; Inventory → Serialized Items — User or above to trace a piece. A User sees only the records they created.

Every tool record keeps its full history in tabs. Together they answer the lifecycle questions: where has it been, what was it built from, what has it cost, and how long has it lasted.

Open the history tabs

Section titled “Open the history tabs”
  1. In the sidebar, click Production → Tools and open the tool.
  2. Work through the tabs across the top of the record:
Tab What it shows
Cutting Edges The cutting edges fitted to the tool and their current condition.
Items List The items currently mounted in this tool, with quantity and condition.
Assembly History Every assembly and disassembly event — which items went in or out, and when.
Moves History Every movement — storage to machine, machine to assembly station, and back — with dates and the user who validated each move.
Usage History Every usage cost line posted for this tool’s items on machines.
Life History Recorded tool lives — runtime accumulated per life and the condition the tool ended each life in.

Tool T000004 record with Overview, Cutting Edges, Items List, Assembly History, Moves History, Usage History, and Life History tabs. (full size)

Fig. 1: The tool record tabs — each one is a different lens on the same physical tool’s history.

Read the lifecycle from the tabs

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  1. Where has it been? Open Moves History. Reading bottom-up gives the tool’s full journey since creation.
  2. What was it built from? Open Assembly History. Each cutting edge replacement shows as a disassembly of the worn item and assembly of the new one.
  3. What has it cost? Open Usage History. The sum of cost lines is the tool’s accumulated usage cost; each line names the machine that consumed it.
  4. How long does it last? Open Life History and compare each recorded life against its life limit. A new entry is added — and Usage Life resets to zero — every time a cutting edge is removed from the tool. Consistently short lives point to cutting parameters or assembly problems; see Record Runtime for how lives accumulate.

Tool T000004 Moves History table showing references, dates, move types, source and destination, status, and quantities. (full size)

Fig. 2: Moves History shows each movement’s reference, date, type, source, destination, status, and quantity.

Trace a serialized item across tools

Section titled “Trace a serialized item across tools”

High-value serialized items (e.g., precision holders) outlive any single tool assembly. To follow one across its whole service life:

  1. In the sidebar, click Inventory → Serialized Items and open the item by serial number.
  2. The Overview shows current status and remaining value; Moves History shows every tool, machine, and service order it has passed through; Usage History shows every cost posted against it.

Notes

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  • The Comments & History panel at the bottom of the tool record adds the human trail — status changes and user comments with timestamps.
  • For condition semantics (Uncut, Used, Pre-warning, Warning, Expired, Broken), see Tools Reference.
  • Batch-level (non-serialized) items aggregate their history on the item record itself — open Inventory → Items → Moves History for the batch view.

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