Heat traceability, ready in seconds

The problem

The evidence exists. It is just scattered across four places and one person's memory.

An automotive, construction or heavy-industry customer asks for the heat certificate of a specific cut. Today someone spends hours gathering paperwork, loose photos and ERP data to respond, and any gap becomes a non-conformance if there's also a qualification audit.

• An automotive, construction or heavy-industry customer asks for the mill certificate covering one specific cut, delivered weeks ago.
• The certificate is in a folder, the order is in the ERP, the photos are on somebody's phone and the measurement is on a paper record in a drawer. Somebody spends hours putting it together, and that somebody is usually the person you can least afford to take off the floor.
• Two to three days to rebuild the traceability of a single claim, and that is when the paperwork happens to be complete.
• When there is a qualification audit on top, any gap stops being an inconvenience and becomes a non-conformance with a corrective action attached to it.

How it fits the IRIS system

Agents assembles nothing new — it organizes what the other pieces already capture.

Every critical cut automatically triggers the dossier: heat certificate, pre/post cutting photos, measurement and decision log, organized by Agents per order and customer.

Every critical cut closes its own dossier at the moment it happens, out of evidence that was captured anyway. Anything rebuilt afterwards inherits the gaps of whatever nobody wrote down at the time, and it is precisely in that assembly, weeks later, that the non-conformances appear.

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Before and after

Today's paper chase versus the permanent dossier

Aspect	Today	With iLEAN Agents
Answering a certificate request	2-3 days	Seconds
Where the evidence is	Four places and a memory	One dossier per order
Cutting photos	On somebody's phone	Attached to the order
A gap in the paperwork	Found by the auditor	Flagged when it happens
A qualification audit	Days of preparation	A filtered view to download
Who the dossier is for	—	The customer, and their auditor

2-3 days to rebuild traceability for a claim → dossier available in seconds.

Impact estimate

Impact estimate — to be validated with your numbers.

The block below is an estimate to be validated against your plant's actual data. We put it forward so the committee has an order of magnitude; we refine it during the assessment.

• From 2-3 days to seconds to answer a claim with the full traceability of a cut, as an estimate to validate against your own last claim.
• Qualification audits stop being preceded by days of hunting for paper across four systems and two filing cabinets.
• The dossier also works commercially: being able to send it the same day is an argument in front of a demanding customer, and it is the kind of argument a competitor selling the same steel at the same price per kilo cannot make.
• And a gap is detected when the evidence should have been generated, not on the auditor's day.

Drastic reduction in response time for claims and qualification audits. Estimate to be validated.

And the fair question from the production manager

“Isn't this just another document manager?” — the difference is direction. A document manager stores what somebody decides to upload, afterwards, and inherits exactly the same gaps. Here the dossier closes the instant the cut happens, out of what Connect and Edge already captured, and Agents reorganizes it for whoever is asking. Classifying each piece of evidence is an anchored task where the best models drop below 1.5% error [1], and a missing document is reported rather than invented.

^[1] OpenAI paper "Why Language Models Hallucinate", 2025 — on the reliability of AI in anchored tasks.