01 / Sign in
PIN login, no laptop
The operator taps a PIN and they're on the job. Every reading is stamped with who took it, on what device, against which work order — traceability nobody had to remember to write down.
Shop floor & in-process quality
Catch it at the station, not at final inspect.
An operator station on the floor, gauges wired straight into it, and every reading landing in the system the second it's taken — checked against the spec while the part is still in the operator's hand. Behind it: SPC with Cp/Cpk, calibration tracking, and live rectifier telemetry on the plating lines.
Gauges plug in — nobody keys anything
PASS / HIGH / LOW as the reading lands
Cp/Cpk the way aerospace and medical ask for it
The clipboard is where the money leaks
Readings taken at 10am, typed in at 4pm, and argued about on Thursday. Every hour in between is scrap you haven't found yet.
Readings
Clipboard, keyed in at 4pmLive at the station
Gauge to database with no hands in between — the transcription error stops existing.
A part out of spec
Found at final inspectFlagged at the station
One part to fix instead of a lot to rework — or scrap.
Measurement report
An afternoon of typingPrints with the parts
PDF report and batch serial labels come off the station with the job.
The operator station
A kiosk on the floor that the operator actually wants to use — because it's less work than the clipboard was.
02 / Live readings
PASS / HIGH / LOW / LOD, as it lands
The gauge plugs into the station and readings stream in live with their status against the spec limits — in-spec, over, under, or below the limit of detection. The operator sees the verdict before they put the part down.
03 / Specs
The system knows what "good" is
Specs, spec limits, and part-level spec overrides live in BrixIQ, so in-spec versus out-of-spec is decided as the reading is taken — not reconstructed from a spreadsheet a week later. Missing-spec tracking closes the gap that produces "we measured it, but against what?"
04 / Paperwork
Reports and labels off the station
Measurement reports export as PDF and serial labels print in batches right at the station. The paperwork that used to eat an afternoon comes out with the parts.
Less scrap. Less rework.
Your gauges, wired in
FischerScope and Mitutoyo SJ-210 talk to BrixIQ directly over serial. No middle spreadsheet, no hand-typed numbers.
01 / Direct connection
Gauge to database
Readings land in BrixIQ the moment the gauge takes them, tied to the work order and the part. That kills the transcription error and the hour a day somebody spent creating it.
02 / Calibration
No gauge drifts out quietly
Calibration schedules, due dates, a full calibration log, and certificate numbers per device — plus copying settings between devices when you add one. An out-of-cal gauge invalidates every reading it took; this is how you keep that from turning into a recall.
03 / Coverage
Thickness and surface finish
Coating thickness on the FischerScope, surface roughness on the SJ-210, both feeding the same record and the same SPC charts.
SPC that catches drift before it makes scrap
Every reading the floor takes is already in the chart. You don't run a separate SPC exercise — you look at the one the shop is producing.
A process walking toward the edge of the window looks fine on a pass/fail sheet right up until the day it isn't. On a control chart you see it coming and adjust while the parts are still good.
Cpk is also the number that gets asked for on aerospace and medical work. Having it on demand is what lets you bid the higher-margin jobs.
Win the higher-margin work
05 / SPC
- X-bar & R charts
- I-MR charts
- Run charts
- Histograms
- Cp and Cpk
- Control limits and spec limits together
06 / Run telemetry
- Amp hours per run
- Voltage, current, and temperature over time
- Resistance trend through the run
- Thickness statistics
- Rectifier health score
- Hold stability score
Plating lines: the rectifier tells you what really happened
Run telemetry straight off the line, so a plating run has a record instead of a memory.
Over-plating is money poured down the drain — metal you bought and gave away. Under-plating is a rejected lot and a customer conversation. The run data tells you which way each tank is leaning, run after run.
Know whether you can take the job before you buy the tank
The same run data rolls up into a picture of what your line can actually do — not what you think it can do.
Capex avoided is money in the bank.
Anomalies
The odd run gets flagged, not buried.
Anomaly detection on rectifier runs surfaces the outlier while you can still figure out what caused it, instead of finding it in a customer complaint.
Utilization
How much line you're actually using.
Utilization and weekly capacity per rectifier, so the answer to "can we fit it" comes from data instead of a gut feel and a whiteboard.
Trends
Efficiency over time, year over year.
Efficiency trends and year-over-year comparisons show whether a line is quietly getting worse — and which one to look at first.
Planning
Capacity planning and a performance scorecard.
When a customer asks for double the volume, you can answer from the scorecard: here's the headroom, here's what it costs, here's whether we need another tank.
Coupon testing and certificates
Witness and internal coupon sessions run on the same platform, and the certificate comes out the other end.
Certificates are a gate on the work you're allowed to bid. When they're generated from the actual session data and retained with their version history, the audit conversation is short.
Bid the work that needs certs
07 / Coupon testing
- Witness and internal coupon test sessions
- Attempts tracked per session
- Presets so a recurring test is set up once
- A retained, versioned PDF Coupon Test Certificate
- Certificates can be voided — with the record of why
One module of the platform, not another island
BrixIQ is the operating platform for machine, plating, coating & finishing shops. The floor module sits on the same system that reads a drawing into a quote and runs your invoicing — so the reading an operator took is one click from the job, the cert, and the invoice.
01 / Drawing in, quote out
The estimating side: BrixIQ reads the print, prices it against your rates, and drafts the quote.
02 / Quality management
CAPA, nonconformance, and audit management — the side of quality that lives off the floor.
03 / Document control
Procedures, work instructions, and specs with approvals and revision history.
BrixIQ starts at $995 per facility per month, unlimited users, no setup fee. Modules get scoped when you're ready for them.
Put the station on your floor
Bring a gauge and a part. In fifteen minutes you'll see a reading go from the gauge to the chart to the certificate without anybody typing a number.
No commitment. We'll run it on your specs and your gauges.