Digitising Quality Inspection & LTQR Automation
The Friction
A major structural steel fabricator faced significant administrative bottlenecks and commercial risks due to legacy, disconnected inspection workflows. Inspectors were manually recording dimensional data, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), and paint application metrics across physical sheets and isolated spreadsheets. Compiling final Lifetime Quality Record (LTQR) packs required months of post-production administrative labour to track down missing records, directly delaying project sign-offs and billing.
The 3A Application
Real-Time Digital Capture: Deployed tailored shop-floor tablets for live, point-of-production capture of climatic metrics, DFT readings, and NDT validations.
Strategic Data Integration: Seamlessly linked with existing production software to establish a single source of truth and guarantee absolute data integrity.
Automated LTQR Assembly: Designed an automated architecture that instantly compiles compliant data into custom, digitally signed LTQR packs.
Enterprise Security: Architected to strict Cyber Essentials Plus standards with MFA, ensuring workflow security without creating administrative bottlenecks.
The Growth
Accelerated Billing Cycles: Reduced LTQR compilation time from months to on-demand generation, removing friction from client sign-offs, accelerating cash flow, and significantly lowering administrative overhead.
Live Visibility & Margin Protection: Enabled QA heads to monitor compliance from anywhere, providing the continuous visibility needed to defend project margins.
Audit Confidence: Eliminated paper loss and retrospective entry, guaranteeing complete end-to-end traceability for EXC1–EXC4 contracts under BS EN 1090 and NSSS standards.
