CNC tool management: cutting tool inventory, breakage logging and assembly tracking, built for the shop floor. Scan the QR label on the tool, log the break in seconds, and stop guessing where your tooling budget goes.
30 days free on Starter · No card required · Unlimited operators on every plan
Every shop starts with one. It works until the floor gets busy — and the floor is always going to get busy.
You find out you're low on Ø10 end mills when there are two left and the job needs fifteen. The supplier quotes two weeks. Now you're reprogramming toolpaths or running undersized.
Tools break one after another and no one writes down the profile, the job, or the machine. Without that, you can't tell a feeds-and-speeds problem from a fixturing problem from a training problem.
Logging means walking to a desktop, opening a file someone else already has open, and hoping it saves. Under pressure it gets left — and by the next morning it's forgotten.
Not a generic parts database with "quantity" and "location" — it knows what a collet is, and what breaks a cutter.
Cutters, drills, taps, countersinks, inserts, collets and holders each carry their own fields — diameter, flutes, ER size, holder type. Descriptions build themselves.
Print a QR label, stick it on the cup holder. An operator scans with a phone or tablet, picks a reason and profile, and stock deducts itself. No desktop, no queue.
Combine holder + collet + cutter into one setup, print a setup label, and track it as assembled, in use or dismantled. Break it and every part comes off stock together.
See which tools break repeatedly, on which profiles, on which machines. That's the report that turns "we keep snapping 6mm cutters" into a fixable cause.
Record scrapped stock with quantity, machine, reason and a photo taken straight from the phone camera. The evidence is attached to the entry, not sitting in someone's roll.
Email the moment a tool goes low, hits zero, or breaks repeatedly in the same week — so reordering happens before the job stops.
A shared crib terminal signs out when the tab closes, and every operator logs under their own name. They can add entries; they can't quietly edit yesterday's.
One setting flips every input and every printed label between millimetres and inches, for the whole shop.
PDF and Excel export on every plan. The KPI summary below — total cost, trend, cost per machine — is on Shop and Plant.
The supervisor dashboard, the first thing you see after signing in.
Enter the tools you hold, with stock counts and reorder thresholds. Set up your machines and the reasons your shop actually uses.
Every tool and assembly gets a QR label straight from the app. Stick them on the cup holders and the crib shelves.
Operators scan, pick a reason, and carry on. Stock, history and alerts update themselves across every screen in real time.
Most shops find out what tooling cost them when the invoices get reconciled, long after the decision that drove the spend is forgotten. The KPI summary answers it from data you're already logging: this month, last month, and whether the trend is getting better or worse — not a guess, a number.
What cutters, drills and inserts have actually cost you this month, and whether that's up or down against the same length of time before it — not "it feels like more."
Spend and consumption charted over the last 3, 6 or 12 months, in whole calendar months, so a bad week doesn't get mistaken for a trend — or a real one gets dismissed as noise.
Which machine is actually eating the tooling budget, and what share of total spend it accounts for — the number that turns "SW-2 breaks a lot of tools" into something you can act on.
A cheap insert snapping every week can matter less to the budget than one expensive cutter breaking twice — this ranks by what it actually cost, not how often it happened.
Every tool at or below its reorder point, totalled into one number — a purchase order becomes a five-minute job instead of a walk around the crib with a notepad.
One PDF with the figures a plant manager actually gets asked for — spend, trend, and which machine or tool is driving it — instead of assembling one from five tabs the night before.
Lifespan tracking ranks every tool by how long it actually survives, not how often it breaks.
Full reporting, the KPI summary and lifespan tracking are included on the Shop and Plant plans — see pricing below.
Charging per operator would push you to share one login — which would make the per-operator reporting worthless. So we don't.
For a single shop getting its tool crib under control.
For shops running several machines and more than one supervisor.
For multi-cell plants and anyone past ten machines.
The free trial runs for 30 days on Starter, with no card required. Move up to Shop or Plant whenever you need the extra supervisors and machines, the reporting, or an Excel import of your existing tool list — annual billing saves roughly two months on every tier.
I took over as CNC programmer and shop lead, and inherited the usual problem: no reliable count of what tooling we held, and no record of why any of it broke. We'd discover a shortage with two cutters left and a two-week lead time, then lose production time running a smaller tool or rewriting toolpaths.
The first fix was a spreadsheet. It worked right up until the floor got busy — then logging became something to do later, and later never came.
The problem was never that operators wouldn't log it. It was that logging cost them a walk to a desktop and a file someone else already had open.
So CutterLog does it the other way round: the log comes to the tool. Scan the label, pick a reason, done — and the questions that actually matter (is it the feeds and speeds? the fixture? the coating? the training?) finally have data behind them.
Set up your tool list, print your labels, and let the shop floor do the rest.