Stage VI: Analytics

Create dashboards to review tool life, usage cost, and inventory performance.

Updated October 29, 2026

Role: Production Manager
Prerequisites: Stage V complete — runtime and condition data recorded

With a completed production cycle, the Analytics module provides visibility into tool costs, usage patterns, and inventory health.

Tasks

Create a dashboard — start from a template dashboard if your organization has one, or build one from scratch
Configure a widget — add widgets and set each one’s data source, metric, filters, and grouping; for the demo, the most useful starting points are Inventory Valuation, Tool Conditions, and Usage Cost

After one production cycle:

Inventory Valuation — total stock value across storage devices and in-machine tools; Tooling Metrics tracks valuation for items in circulation (picked out, assembled into tools) not just items in stock
Tool Conditions — how many serialized cutting edges came back needing service or scrapped; click any tool ID in a table widget to jump directly to that tool’s record
Usage Cost — which tool assemblies consumed the most cost during the job; group by machine, item, user, or date for different perspectives

You have completed the full Tooling Metrics loop: library → engineering → inventory → purchasing → production → analytics.

Return to any module to explore its guides for task-specific workflows, or browse the reference documentation for field definitions.