Seamless CAQ integration for successful digitalization
The right solution for your corporate landscape
Every business environment is unique and requires tailor-made solutions. We enable the exchange of master data, order data, and process data—for optimized workflows and significant savings in planning work.
- Optimized work processes: Less planning effort thanks to efficient integration.
- Customized solutions: Taking individual company requirements into account.
- Data networking: Exchange of master, order, and process data enables seamless workflows.
- Time and cost savings: Through efficient integration and improved processes.
A well-thought-out integration concept
A well-thought-out integration concept takes all relevant areas into account, from organizational integration into workflows to the technical connection of devices and machines.
Technical connection:
- Sensors and production machines
- measuring equipment
- Identification devices: barcode scanners, RFID scanners, QR code scanners
Constant communication and integration:
In many companies, there is continuous communication between different systems, such as:
- ERP systems (enterprise resource planning)
- Machine data acquisition systems
- MES-systems (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
Other systems:
- portals
- PPS systems (production planning and control)
- CAD-software (Computer-Aided Design)
- DMS (document management systems)
- Internal developments
Expertise in interface development
With over 40 years of experience in interface development, we offer the expertise to optimally integrate your CAQ (computer-aided quality) into your system landscape.
Interfaces in your system environment
The various interface tools offer a simple, flexible, and efficient solution. This allows you to respond quickly and control your processes effectively.
Technology
Our technological approaches are based on proven standards that ensure reliability and interoperability. Our experts provide comprehensive advice on selecting and designing the replacement technologies that best suit your requirements.
Data exchange typically takes place at different levels
database fields
Data can be synchronized directly at the database level, enabling smooth exchange.
file level
Files are imported and processed according to a workflow. Data is exchanged in both directions via so-called tasks, ensuring standardized and controlled data processing.
Connectivity Integration Hub
Your central solution for easy networking of measurement and production systems
Overview
The Connectivity Integration Hub offers a powerful and flexible platform for connecting measuring equipment, measuring machines, production facilities, and automation solutions to modern IT and cloud infrastructures. Support for standards such as OPC UA and MQTT enables seamless communication between different devices and systems, ensuring secure and future-proof data integration.
Future-proof, cost-effective plug-and-play solution for seamless integration
The platform enables cross-vendor integration for modern Industry 4.0 environments with standardized protocols such as OPC-UA and MQTT for fast data transfer. The user-friendly Connectivity Integration Hub can be set up without IT knowledge and saves time through intuitive operation, allowing you to focus on optimizing quality control and production processes.
Industry-4.0-ready
Future-proof thanks to OPC UA and MQTT compatibility, suitable for modern cloud and IIoT environments.
Cross-manufacturer integration
Flexible use with measuring equipment and interface boxes from numerous suppliers, e.g., Steinwald, Mitutoyo, and Keyence.
Easy administration
Through a user-friendly interface with quick setup and intuitive management.
Connection to CAQ systems
Fully compatible with CAQ360, SQM360, MDE360, and other platforms for further data processing.
Cost and time efficiency
Bestehende Systeme und Hardware werden ohne teure Neuanschaffungen eingebunden und lassen sich schnell konfigurieren.
Rely on the Connectivity Integration Hub
Future-proof and simple data collection
Connection of measuring devices and measuring machines
- Process optimization and error reduction:
Connecting measuring devices and measuring machines optimizes processes, minimizes data acquisition errors, and speeds up the availability of measurement results for analysis and response. - Use of measuring boxes:
Measuring boxes are often used for standard measuring equipment. These combine various interfaces in a single piece of hardware, making them easy and convenient for users to operate. - Compatibility with Quality Miners CAQ solutions:
Measuring boxes from all common manufacturers can be easily connected to our Quality Miners CAQ solutions. The necessary interfaces are automatically included in the scope of delivery of the test modules.
Technical integration of measuring machines and complex devices
Flexible connection options
The integration of measuring machines, 3D measuring machines, and other complex devices with proprietary software is achieved in various ways.
Data import in qs-STAT format (AQDEF)
Standardized data import enables smooth integration and further processing.
Database integration
The connection via a direct database link ensures fast access to relevant measurement data.
Proprietary interfaces
Individual interfaces provided by the respective machine manufacturer ensure a specific and tailor-made connection.
Integration of portals and platforms
- Optimized data exchange in the B2B environment:
The integration of portals enables the efficient exchange of quality-related data, e.g., in supplier portals, calibration laboratories, portals for sampling processes, or complaint portals. - Complaint management with customer connection:
By integrating your customers’ portals, customer complaints can be created directly in our complaint management system and relevant data fields (e.g., 0-KM or field failure) can be filled in automatically. - Automated data return:
After the complaint has been processed, the data is automatically transferred back to the portal. Data exchange takes place via the standardized QDX format. - Save time and money with portal solutions:
Quality Miners’ portal solutions minimize time-consuming and costly duplicate maintenance and provide all relevant data in a central system.
Platform integration for maximum interoperability
Manufacturing Integration Platform (MIP) - MPDV
As a partner of the MIP integration platform, our manufacturing apps offer seamless integration for users of the MPDV solution HYDRA X. This enables interaction with all partner solutions on a common database.
Customized CAQ solutions
Individual, modular, and comprehensive. With this approach, we implement the technical and organizational integration of CAQ software in networked value chains.
CAQ industry solution for the metalworking industry
Ready to go in just a few steps, modularly expandable, incremental technical and organizational integration.
CAQ for extending SAP® with QM functions
Full integration into the SAP environment, connection of measuring machines, measuring equipment, software, etc.
Intelligent machine data acquisition
Simple data aggregation, seamless integration, and real-time transparency reduce uncertainty, enable data-driven decisions, improve quality, lower costs, increase resource utilization, and improve on-time delivery.
CAD integration in CAQ for efficient inspection processes
Use of Elias InfraConvert
For CAD stamping, we rely on Elias InfraConvert, which is fully integrated into our CAQ solutions and can be launched directly from test planning or FMEA.- Automatic recognition and stamping:
The system automatically recognizes inspection features in CAD drawings, stamps them, and transfers them directly to the inspection plan. - Supported formats
CAD exchange formats: DWG, DXF, or IGES
Other formats: PDF, TIFF, PNG, etc. - Flexible further processing
Inspection plan for further processing in MS Excel or a CAQ system
Stamped drawing as a PDF file or in form
