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Return tools

Validate the return, enter runtime, and decide whether to disassemble the tool.

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Prerequisites: A return list from a machine is Ready (see Record runtime). Required permission: Inventory → Return Lists — User or above. Admins can validate any return list; Managers and Users only the return lists they created.

Validate the return

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  1. Physically bring the tool back to the WAP.
  2. Open the return list and click Validate.

The tool’s location moves off the machine — on-hand quantity increases at the destination, in-circulation decreases, and its slot in the machine’s tool crib clears automatically.

Enter the runtime

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Validating a return list sourced from a machine immediately opens a Record cutting edge usage step, listing the mounted cutting edges of every tool that just came back.

  1. For each cutting edge, leave the toggle on Add to and enter the usage it accumulated on this run (or switch to Set total to replace its total usage).
  2. Toggle Broken if that cutting edge failed during the run.
  3. Click Save usage.

The Record cutting edge usage overlay after a return from the machine: each returned tool’s mounted edges with remaining life, a usage value to add or set, and a Broken switch per row (full size)

Fig. 1: This is the moment runtime is recorded — right as the tool leaves the machine.

Keep it assembled, or take it apart

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The tool is now back at a storage location or WAP, still fully assembled — nothing forces you to disassemble it. If it’s going straight to another job, leave it as is; its identity and history carry over.

To disassemble it instead — returning its individual mounted items back into bulk or serialized inventory — create a second Return List with the Tool itself as the source:

  1. In the sidebar, click Inventory → Return Lists → + Create, and set the Source to the tool.
  2. Tooling Metrics prefills a line for each item currently mounted in it.
  3. Work it through Mark as Todo → Validate, same as any return list. If it stops at Waiting, click Check Availability before validating.

What to expect

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  • On-hand quantity increases at each destination; in-circulation decreases.
  • If a disassembled piece is a serialized cutting edge, removing it from the tool logs a Life History entry — the runtime it accumulated — and resets the tool’s Usage Life to zero.

Next

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Check and scrap a worn piece — record the condition of returned pieces so worn or scrapped ones are excluded from future jobs.

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