Turn material certificates into structured, searchable compliance evidence
A Material Test Certificate records the identity, composition, mechanical properties, heat number, standards, inspection results, and certification details of a supplied material. Manufacturers use it to confirm that incoming material meets engineering, customer, and regulatory requirements.
In high-volume manufacturing, manually inspecting thousands of supplier certificates becomes a massive administrative and compliance challenge.
Certificates arrive for every procurement batch, often totaling thousands of pages each month. Reviewing them manually takes significant engineering time.
MTCs arrive in highly unstructured formats: scanned PDFs, paper sheets, supplier-specific templates, and digital reports. There is no standard layout.
Engineers must cross-reference chemical composition limits, tensile/yield strengths, heat numbers, and compliance standard variations (such as ASTM, ASME, EN, ISO).
Linking purchased material heat numbers to manufacturing batches, weld records, finished products, and customer shipments requires tedious cross-referencing.
Gathering compliance evidence from multiple systems and filing cabinets for audits can take days of stressful retrieval work.
Repetitive manual verification increases the risk of transcription errors or missing a critical grade deviation, leading to scrap, rework, or compliance exposure.
Traditional document management stores certificates in folders where they remain unread. MTC Intelligence transforms those records into live, searchable evidence.
Select one of the preloaded scenarios below to see how MTC Intelligence extracts parameters, compares them against engineering specifications, and flags outcomes for quality engineers.
The demonstration uses synthetic certificate and traceability data. It illustrates the founder-approved MTC Intelligence workflow without uploading, storing, or transmitting customer documents.
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From incoming supplier document to validated plant memory, MTC Intelligence runs a five-stage extraction and compliance pipeline.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR), computer vision, and document AI parse scanned sheets, tables, heat numbers, chemical composition cells, mechanical test bars, and inspector signatures into structured databases.
Unlike simple keyword search, the system interprets engineering context, resolving equivalent material grades across global standards, converting measurement units, and understanding chemical tolerance equations.
The extracted data is automatically validated against ASME, ASTM, EN, and ISO standard tolerances, purchase orders, specific customer requirements, and internal quality policies, flagging non-conforming parameters.
Connects the certified heat number with downstream records: purchase orders, raw inventory lots, specific manufacturing batches, weld details, finished assembly codes, and customer shipments for audit compliance.
Captures historical quality team decisions (approved comments, reason for rejection, audit feedbacks) to improve future suggestions. Note: Human verification and governance remain mandatory; the AI does not make unsupervised or automatic material approvals.
We integrate multiple AI and database systems to translate complex documentation into verified engineering evidence.
Extracts text and values from low-contrast, rotated, or stamped supplier document scans.
Identifies document structures, page limits, and table borders to isolate test parameters correctly.
Interprets supplier remarks, footnotes, and certification authority seals in context.
Represents relationships between material grade names, chemical ingredients, and mechanical tests.
Provides a reference of ASME, ASTM, EN, and ISO tolerances to check properties against.
Executes validation rules comparing actual measurements against standard and PO limits.
AI functions as an intelligent compliance assistant rather than replacing quality engineers.
MTC Intelligence helps plants streamline verification, increase engineering efficiency, and eliminate manual document lookup bottlenecks.
Routine certificate review time is substantially reduced by focusing engineers only on exceptions rather than checking compliant papers field-by-field.
Checks are run using the exact same configured standards and PO tolerances across all suppliers, reducing the risk of manual oversight.
Compliance and trace evidence are available digitally in seconds, eliminating cabinet searches and multi-system manual tracing before audits.
Incoming shipments can be verified and cleared to inventory quicker, avoiding raw material staging queues in the receiving bay.
Eliminates transcription errors from copying heat numbers, compositions, and tensile values manually into ERP or QMS systems.
Easily track supplier quality trends, identify recurring parameter deviations, and improve performance scorecard reviews.
Traditionally, Material Test Certificates are treated as passive records stored primarily for audits. MTC Intelligence turns this documentation into a strategic knowledge asset.
Captures senior inspectors' knowledge of standard deviations, supplier variations, and engineering workarounds to share across multiple manufacturing sites.
Enables procurement teams to search chemical parameter history to find which supplier consistently delivers the cleanest material grades.
Ensures that customer service can immediately retrieve the full raw material certificate and heat history associated with a specific shipment.
Ask complex compliance and audit questions directly to the system, retrieving specific certificate information, heat numbers, or supplier parameters.
The copilot parses the question, queries the structured material-compliance database, and explains the engineering outcomes.
Discuss how MTC Intelligence can support certificate review, compliance validation, material traceability, audit preparation, and supplier-quality decisions across your organisation.
