The suite

Six products, one record carried through the whole of the work

Each phase of making and running a product has an owner. What passes between them carries the same name on both sides, so records from two products can be read together without reconciling them by hand.

Who it is for

Manufacturers, rental fleets and service companies

The suite is built for companies that make, sell, rent or maintain physical products: pumps, valves, gearboxes, machines, tools, instruments, structures. It controls the drawings, records the inspections, and tracks the equipment in service.

The case study on this page follows a drill bit through the whole suite.

The shape of it

Each stage has an owner

What is being made. Drawings, models, specifications and procedures, numbered, revised and released. Part numbers, bills of material, where-used, suppliers. — DocCore
The drawing under review. Marked up and measured on screen, by two people at once, with the markup tied to the revision it was made against. — MarkCore
What was built, and the proof. Inspection routings, measurements against tolerance, evidence, certificates, and the serial number of every unit made. — QCore
Where every unit is now. Location, state, work orders, rentals, certificates with expiry, and the cost of keeping each one. — AssetCore
Who is allowed in. One account per person across the suite, and one place to remove somebody who leaves. — IDCore
What your customers can see. Their own equipment, documents and reports, and nothing belonging to anybody else. — PortalCore

The products

Three that stand on their own

Each has its own licence, its own manual, and works without the other two.

Documents and parts

DocCore

The source of truth for how things are made

Drawings, models, specifications and procedures under revision control: numbered, revised, reviewed, released. Beside them the parts: part numbers, bills of material, where-used, suppliers and their part numbers.

View drawings and 3D models in the browser, no CAD licence
Requests, approvals and email intake, included
Reads your SAP material master and bills of material
Every action recorded in a tamper-evident log

What DocCore does →

Quality

QCore

Proof that what you built is what you drew

Inspection routings, measurements against tolerance, photographic evidence, certificates of conformance, and the serial number of every unit you make. Instruments carry their calibration state, and a reading taken with an overdue instrument is marked as such.

A phone app for the shop floor that works with no network
Measurements shown on the design model
Sensors and cameras on the machine, through an edge device
Signatures gated by the rules

What QCore does →

Asset management

AssetCore

Every serialised unit, all of its life

Where each unit is, what state it is in, what has been done to it, when it is due back and what its last repair cost. Work orders with parts, labour and checklists. Rentals with delivery notes, certificates and utilisation. Consumables with a minimum level.

A movement ledger chained so that a change shows
Preventive maintenance on hours, cycles or the calendar
Certificates with expiry, so nothing unfit ships
A QR label that opens the unit's record on a phone

What AssetCore does →

ABAR Drilling Analytics is a separate line, not part of the suite. It is drilling analytics and engineering software for oil and gas.

With DocCore

Three companions on DocCore's licence

IDCore is included. PortalCore and MarkCore are optional, switched on when you want them.

Optional

MarkCore

Mark up the drawing, not a printout of it

Open a drawing, measure on it to scale, mark it up and review it with somebody else on the same sheet at the same time. The markup stays attached to the revision it was made against.

Measure to scale, in the drawing's own units
Two people on one sheet, live
Every markup tied to the revision it was made on

What MarkCore does →

Optional

PortalCore

What your customers can see for themselves

Your customers sign in and see their own equipment on hire, their own documents and their own reports, and nothing belonging to anybody else. Editable originals stay yours; they get the issued copy.

Branded with your name
Customer requests land in your engineers' queue
Licensed through DocCore, switched on when you want it

What PortalCore does →

Included

IDCore

One sign-in for the suite

One account per person across every product, with your existing company directory behind it. When somebody leaves, they lose access everywhere at once. Every product keeps its own local login for when the network is down.

Two-factor sign-in as standard
Group to role mapping, per product
Included with DocCore

What IDCore does →

Case study

Drill bits and downhole tools, followed all the way round

An 8½-inch six-blade PDC bit, from a customer's email to the evidence that shapes its successor.

Who owns what, along one lifecycle

Fig. 1 — Ownership along the lifecycle of a drill bit. Solid bars: the product that holds the record. Faint bars: present throughout.

The same item, three times

As designed, as built, as used

One model, with three sets of data on it from three parts of the business. Here the model is a bit face and the positions are cutter pockets; in another shop they are weld seams or bearing positions. The geometry is named once, and every later measurement attaches to that name.

As designed

DocCore

B1-C1 … B3-G1 — named on the released model

Every position named and placed by the designer, on the released model.

As built

QCore

pass · near limit · fail — violet: instrument out of calibration

Measurements against tolerance, with the evidence and the instrument's calibration behind each one.

As used

ABAR Drilling Analytics

dull grade 0 – 8

Graded on a phone at the rig, position by position, then averaged across every run of that design.

One bit, followed through

What happens, in order

The enquiry arrives as an email

A drilling engineer writes asking for a bit for a well, with the well profile attached. The mail lands in engineering's shared mailbox and becomes a numbered request, with the attachment already filed and the sender recognised.

Handled by DocCore

It is worked, reviewed and approved

Applications, then product development, then the design lead. Anyone can see which stage it is at and who is waiting on whom. The design lead approves at the gate, and the approved drawing is filed into the register as a controlled document, numbered and stamped.

Handled by DocCore

The design carries its own map

The released model holds the bill of material and the cutter layout, every pocket named and positioned. Every later measurement and every field grade attaches to that map.

Handled by DocCore

It is marked up before anyone cuts metal

The reviewer opens the drawing, measures on it to scale and marks it up with somebody else on the same sheet. The markup stays attached to the revision it was made against.

Handled by MarkCore

It is built, and the machine keeps the record

Cutters are brazed into their pockets. The station's thermocouples and gas pressures stream in; a camera photographs the cycle. The evidence attaches to that serial number and that operation.

Handled by QCore

Nobody signs a bad braze

The rules are checked before the signature is offered: required evidence present, sensors inside their band, no over-temperature excursion. The signature, the checks and the readings stay together for the life of the tool.

Handled by QCore

The serial number enters the fleet

The finished bit is a tool now: a location, a state, certificates with expiry dates, and a history. It is reserved against a job, picked, and shipped on a delivery note that carries its certificates.

Handled by AssetCore

It drills, and the morning reports are read for you

Depth, hours, rate of penetration, weight on bit, revolutions, formation in and out, lifted from the daily reports and joined to the run, the rig and the well. Price lists and billing rules turn what was used into what it was worth.

Handled by ABAR Drilling Analytics

It comes back, and is graded where it lies

The field engineer grades it on a phone at the rig, cutter by cutter, against the pocket names the designer used, with photographs. Back at the workshop the tool is received, inspected and repaired or retired, and every hour and part is on the work order.

Handled by ABAR Drilling Analytics and AssetCore

The pattern shows up across runs

Filter every run of that design by formation, weight on bit or hours. The picture is drawn on the same model the designer released, so the next design starts from evidence.

Handled by ABAR Drilling Analytics

The customer never had to phone

They signed in and saw their own tools on hire, their own due-back dates, their own certificates and reports.

Handled by PortalCore

A cutter pocket called B1-C3 is named once, when the bit is designed. The inspector measures B1-C3. The field engineer grades B1-C3. Nobody re-invents the name at any step.

Note

Scope

The case study, the diagrams and the screens on this site use dummy sample data.

What it changes

For a company that makes things and looks after them

Quote from evidence

What this design did, in these conditions, across everything you have shipped.

Prove quality without a hunt

The process record, the measurements, the calibration and the signature are one click from the serial number, years later.

Know your fleet

What is out, what is due back, what is in the workshop, and what each unit has cost to keep.

Design the next one properly

Failures show up as a pattern on the model, in the positions your designer named.

Request access to the manuals How it is installed