Add-on module
Every gauge in tolerance. Every check on record.
An equipment register, a library of NDT process checks with ASTM set points, and a shop-floor log that knows what's due — including the out-of-tolerance paper trail your auditor asks for first.
Sold on its own — $49.99/mo or $499/yr, including 400 extra AI credits a month, no other TRACE subscription needed. Also available as an add-on to any plan. Create your account or see pricing.
What it does
Tool Control, in detail.
An equipment register with a memory
Every asset carries its serial, method, calibration source, and NIST traceability — plus its full check history and the certificates behind it. When a gauge goes out for calibration, its status says so.
Seventy-plus checks, set points included
The library ships with the recurring checks an NDT quality system runs — penetrant system performance, bath settling tests, UV-A intensity, screen height linearity, densitometer verification — each carrying its governing standard and the ASTM default limits, editable to match your written practice.
Schedules that understand a shop floor
Daily checks are owed on days the line actually runs — a quiet weekend doesn't manufacture false alarms. Log the first check of the morning and the rest of that asset's dailies line up as the shift's worklist; skip one while the line keeps running and it becomes a real overdue.
Logged from the tank, not the office
The logging screen is built for a phone at the line: date, reading, pass/fail, straight into the record — calibration checks add as-found and as-left condition. Multi-point readings — linearity checks, temperature surveys — get a point-by-point table.
The out-of-tolerance paper trail
A failed check opens an out-of-tolerance event: what happened, what product was exposed, the impact assessment, the disposition, and the corrective action — the documentation AC7114 asks for when a gauge is found out of tolerance.
Sign-off that means something
Shop-floor entries await verification; the reviewer's name and date go on the record. A log entry can't approve itself.
It tells you before the auditor does
Overdue checks and open out-of-tolerance events surface on the dashboard, in the notification bell, on your phone, and in the daily email digest — the same alerting the rest of TRACE runs on.
How it works
Day to day.
- 1
Register the equipment
Add each asset once — the penetrant line, the bench, the meters and gauges — with its identity and calibration source.
- 2
Schedule the checks
Pick checks from the library; the ASTM set points come with them. Tighten any limit to match your written practice — your values govern.
- 3
Log from the floor
Techs record readings as they run the checks. Passes clear the schedule; failures open an out-of-tolerance event on the spot.
- 4
Review and sign off
Verify entries, work the out-of-tolerance queue to disposition, and attach calibration certificates where they belong.
Want to see it on your own program?
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