Production. Quality. Capacity. Shipping. All from your existing ERP/MRP.
We don't change how your ERP runs your shop. We change what it tells you.
JobAI is a 15-module analytics platform that reads your Manufacturing ERP/MRP data and presents it as real-time dashboards, SPC quality management, capacity forecasting, and AI-powered analysis—without a single keystroke from your team.
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Precision manufacturers face visibility gaps that generic tools can't close
ERP reports show what already happened. By the time you see a late job or a failed inspection, it's already cost you money and credibility.
Late shipments discovered at the last minute. OSP delays that blindside production. Capacity bottlenecks nobody forecasted. Quality escapes that trigger customer corrective actions.
Inspection records scattered across paper forms and spreadsheets. SPC data collected but never analyzed. Cpk numbers calculated once for PPAP and never revisited. No real-time compliance visibility.
An intelligence layer on your existing system—not a replacement
Connects read-only to your ERP/MRP database plus inspection systems like Keyence. All data stays on your premises. Zero production risk.
Cross-references production, quality, shipping, and vendor data into unified views. Calculates SPC metrics, capacity forecasts, and schedule risk scores automatically.
80+ interactive dashboards with hover tooltips, click-to-expand detail, and right-click tools. Your team gets answers in seconds, not hours of report building.
Every job, SPC chart, and capacity forecast is analyzed automatically, with risks flagged and actions suggested. AI explains capability results and answers questions in plain English.
15+ integrated modules covering production, scheduling, quality, capacity, margin, shipping, supply chain and training—built for how job shops actually work
End-to-end job flow from order to shipment
Workload vs. available hours by department
Timeline, table, and kanban views per job
Customer program tracking with delivery milestones
Jobs awaiting traveler creation with urgency
Ready for scheduling with first-run flags
New-part readiness tracking and prerequisites
Week-over-week output by department
Deep-dive routing, OSP, and risk analysis
Color-coded urgency view, filtered in a keystroke by job number range or part number pattern
On-time performance trends
Delivery performance by week
Promise date change auditing
Real-time machine utilization
Productivity by part and customer
Individual productivity metrics
Real-time availability for scheduling
Active job inspection status with gap detection
Cpk/Ppk with control charts and AI interpretation
Digital F-71-01-3 form with dimension catalog
AS9103-compliant with Z1.4 sampling plans
ANOVA-based repeatability and reproducibility, judged against the tolerance
Master specifications from Keyence and manual entry
Outside service PO tracking
Delivery performance tracking
Individual vendor scorecards
Inventory with WIP indicators
Print-ready inventory reports
12-month projections with multi-plan stacking
Part-level risk scoring with machine validation
Statistical baselines from 5 years of production data
Complexity bands, scrap trends, operator stats, and degradation curves per work center
The hand-kept Excel priority sheets, rebuilt live from the ERP: by machine, by customer, calendar, prints full size on 11×17 and saves to Excel. CUI jobs carry a red badge
Managers drag jobs into run order and see every other job's finish and ship date move before they save
Jobs a reprioritization makes late become follow-ups for their account manager, with the reason attached
Compare every machine in the department, preview the change, then write it to the ERP with one confirm
Drawings and documents carrying CUI, export-control or NIST SP 800-171 language are marked wherever they're opened and routed to a named reviewer
Every PO clause and cited document organized by checklist topic, including CUI / NIST 800-171 / CMMC flow-downs
Type the question; Conductor finds the page that answers it and opens it with the filters already set
One job or part, every module's view of it in tabs: schedule, shipping, outside processing, margin, quality, documents
Every active job planned back from its ship date, with critical, at-risk and unrecoverable operations flagged
Year Gantt, work-center heatmap and customer-by-month load in one view
Enter a part, quantity and due date: materials, stock, vendors, routing, machine queues and a timeline in one pass
What each upcoming job needs, what's in stock, what's on order and from whom
Routing estimates checked against real run history, fixed and pushed back to the ERP before the job hits the floor
Estimated vs. actual cost against revenue per job and per job family, with a bridge showing where the margin went
OTD trend and days late for missed targets, for management review
Gages and equipment coming due, overdue and on-time calibration history
Open and closed NCRs by customer, part and cause
Who is qualified on what, and where the gaps are
AIAG-format PFMEA seeded from the routing, with production evidence (scrap, inspection failures, holds) pointing to the parts that need one
PPAP status and elements per part and submission level, with the control plan, process flow and AS13002 backup one click away
Keyence pass / fail results, including "false OK" escape risks and missed measurements
Operations skipped on the traveler while later steps have started, inside and at vendors
Drafted from the routing, the inspection data and the PFMEA: every balloon, how many, how often and who checks it, with final sampling by AS13002 or the customer's own quality manual, earned by measured Cpk
The PPAP process flow, built from the same plan so op numbers always match the PFMEA and control plan
The capability evidence behind every reduced sample, judged against the plan's sampling rule, with a one-click fix before a plan claims a reduction the data doesn't support
Each control plan follows AS13002 or the customer's own supplier quality manual, picked by customer and switchable per plan
Every characteristic judged against the customer's zero-acceptance rule: capable, not capable, rejection history or no data, with documented exceptions
A step-by-step walkthrough that builds the quarterly government-contract report from the ERP, saves as you go and prints a draft any time
Every new or revised part gets an engineering checklist: programming, tooling, fixturing and inspection, with owners, hours and drawings
Each person's open pre-release tasks, earliest ship date first
Daily and weekly email digests routed to the right people, per customer or department
Course material for every module, sessions and sign-in
Who attended, who passed, and who still needs the practical
Every screen is designed for action. Hover for context, click for detail, right-click for tools. Your team uses these features hundreds of times a day.
Hover any machine card to see today’s operator, parts produced, scrap count, and cumulative job progress — without leaving the dashboard. Production sparklines show daily rate trends at a glance.
Click any job row to expand its full operation routing with color-coded progress, operator performance rates, OSP vendor status, and issue analysis — all inline without navigating away.
Right-click any part to instantly open the customer drawing in a draggable, resizable overlay. Supports rotation, zoom, and switches between bubbled inspection drawings, customer originals and parts lists. Documents with CUI or export-control markings are identified on sight, with "CUI" printed along the page margins.
Every module does the analysis for you: health flags, risk scores, bottlenecks and trends, computed straight from your ERP data. Where plain-English interpretation helps most, JobAI adds AI.
Module walkthroughs, architecture overview, and sampling plan reference — everything you need to evaluate JobAI for your shop.
You don't buy every module at once. We work with you to identify your highest-ROI starting point, deploy it in days, and expand when you're ready.
Every shop is different. Your deployment should be too.
A shop struggling with on-time delivery starts with Shipping and Pipeline. A shop facing an AS9100 audit starts with SPC and Compliance. A shop quoting new programs starts with Capacity Planning. We tailor the rollout to your priorities—not ours.
Results our customers measure in the first quarter
"We went from firefighting every day to actually planning ahead. The SPC module alone justified the investment—our quality manager finally has real-time compliance visibility instead of spreadsheets."— Operations Manager, Aerospace Job Shop
What shops ask before they get started
ERP reports tell you what happened. JobAI tells you what needs attention right now—and what's about to go wrong. It's the difference between a rearview mirror and a windshield.
Good—neither do we. JobAI reads your existing data without changing how you work. No new workflows, no retraining, no data entry. Your ERP keeps running exactly the same way.
All data stays on your premises—we recommend internal-only deployment for ITAR-sensitive shops. TLS encrypted, no cloud dependency, no data leaves your network. We've built a formal security checklist for your IT team. Document viewers also identify CUI-marked drawings and NIST SP 800-171 / DFARS 252.204-7012 flow-downs, show the handling risks, and record who reviewed them.
Excel SPC is manual, retroactive, and disconnected from your production data. JobAI SPC auto-imports from Keyence, calculates Cpk/Ppk in real time, integrates with your ERP job data, and the AI explains what each chart means.
Nobody on your side. We handle updates, logic, and tuning. Your team just uses it. When we add a new module or feature, it appears automatically.
We work with precision manufacturers who need production, quality, and capacity visibility
Built by engineers who've spent careers inside the shops we serve
IQ Associates was founded by engineers, not software developers. Our team brings 25+ years of hands-on experience at UL (Underwriters Laboratories) in safety standards and regulatory engineering—evaluating products, auditing manufacturing processes, and establishing compliance frameworks across virtually every manufacturing sector. That engineering discipline shapes everything we build.
Our founder established the first ISO 9001 quality registrar in the United States—helping define how American manufacturers implement and maintain quality management systems. That deep understanding of what auditors look for, what compliance actually requires, and where shops struggle is baked into every JobAI module.
Before building JobAI, we spent two decades consulting directly with small and mid-size manufacturers—aerospace job shops, precision machining houses, medical device suppliers. We implemented quality management systems like iQMS, connected ERP databases to real operational workflows, and watched firsthand as shops drowned in data they couldn't use. We built JobAI to solve the problems we kept seeing.
Most manufacturing software companies sell to shops. We’ve worked inside them. We know what a 6AM shipping crisis looks like. We know why your ERP reports don’t match reality. We know that the real intelligence lives in the data your shop already generates—it just needs someone who understands manufacturing to surface it.
Aerospace & defense job shops (AS9100, ITAR, NADCAP) • Medical device manufacturers (ISO 13485) • Automotive suppliers (IATF 16949, PPAP) • Precision machining operations • Any shop running a Manufacturing ERP/MRP that needs more from its data than what reports can deliver.
ISO 9001 / AS9100 / ISO 13485 Quality Systems • Statistical Process Control & Capability Analysis • CMMC Cybersecurity Compliance • Manufacturing Data Analytics & ERP Integration • Capacity Planning & Forecasting • Keyence CMM Integration • Sampling Plans (Z1.4, C=0, AS13002)
For existing JobAI customers
Schedule a personalized demo—we'll connect to your ERP and show you your own shop floor in real time
Or contact us directly: info@iqassociates.com