Record runtime

Prerequisites: A tool has been running in a machine. Required permission: Inventory → Return Lists — User or above. Admins can validate any return list; Managers and Users only the return lists they created.

Tooling Metrics doesn’t have a separate “log a runtime entry” screen. Runtime is captured in one step, at the moment the tool physically comes back from the machine — so recording it starts with a Return List.

Start the return

1. In the sidebar, click Inventory → Return Lists → + Create.
2. Select the Source — the Machine the tool is running on. Tooling Metrics prefills a line for every tool currently on it.
3. Click Mark as Todo. The return list moves to Ready, or to Waiting if a line isn’t ready yet. From Waiting, click Check Availability to recheck.

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Fig. 1: Starting a return from a machine — every tool currently loaded is prefilled as a line.

This is as far as this tutorial takes it — validating the return list, and entering the runtime itself, is the next step.

What recording runtime actually updates

Once you validate (next tutorial), for each cutting edge mounted in a returned tool:

• Usage Life — total accumulated runtime — increases by whatever you enter.
• Remaining Life (Life Limit minus Usage Life) recalculates.
• Condition recalculates from that ratio — Pre-warning at 80% consumed, Warning at 95%, Expired at 100% — unless the cutting edge is marked Broken.
• Usage cost is not posted at this moment. Cost-per-pick items post when the tool lands on the machine, and time-based items post once a day while they stay on a machine — see Record Tool Runtime.

Setting a life limit

Remaining Life is measured against the Life Limit of each cutting edge. Set it on the tool’s Cutting Edges tab by editing the cutting edge; the tool form itself has no Life Limit field.

Next

Return tools — validate the return and enter the runtime.

Related articles

• Build a tool from a setup sheet
• Create a machine
• Process your first pick list
• Set up the machine
• Return tools