# Get started

Follow these tutorials in order to prepare a tool, run it on a machine, and record its runtime.

Source: https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/

- [Build a tool from a setup sheet](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/assemble-tool-from-setup-sheet.md): Create a Tool from a Tool Assembly and generate a pick list for its components.
- [Create a machine](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/create-machine.md): Register the CNC machine and its tooling interfaces in Tooling Metrics.
- [Process your first pick list](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/process-pick-list.md): Take a pick list from Waiting through to Done and collect the components.
- [Set up the machine](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/set-up-machine.md): Assemble the tool, release it, transfer it to the machine, and assign its slot number.
- [Record runtime](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/record-runtime.md): Bring the tool back from the machine — this is also how Tooling Metrics captures how long it ran.
- [Return tools](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/return-tools.md): Validate the return, enter runtime, and decide whether to disassemble the tool.
- [Check and scrap a worn piece](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/production/tutorials/track-tool-condition.md): Check a mounted piece's condition and scrap a worn one so it's excluded from the next job.

This series is for **Production**, the person or team who prepares tools, sets up machines, and runs them. In small and medium-sized precision machining shops, this is often one person. It takes about 30 minutes.

**Before you start:** you need a released setup sheet and stock in the warehouse.

**After this series:** see the tool cost and usage this cycle recorded in [Analytics](https://support.toolingmetrics.com/en/analytics/).