Most labs and plants run five systems and reconcile them by hand. Metroliq is one register, one audit trail, one login — from the gauge on the bench to the batch record on the floor.
Ten modules on one compliant spine: calibration and metrology, enterprise asset management, CMMS maintenance, a full quality system, manufacturing execution, field service and the commercial pipeline — plus the builders that configure all of it and the AI that drafts the paperwork.
Every module writes to the same register and the same audit trail. There is no integration step between them because there is no seam.
Every action is chained cryptographically. Edit a historical record and the chain breaks visibly rather than quietly. Corrections to issued certificates are formal amendments or revocations, never edits, and every version is preserved with the signature that bound it.
Certificate to calibration to reference standards to affected assets to any resulting CAPA, as a live graph. "What did this instrument touch?" stops being a week of archaeology and becomes a page.
This is not a calibration tool with bolt-ons. Asset management, maintenance, the quality system and manufacturing execution are first-class modules sharing the same register and the same audit trail as the metrology engine. Every one is configured rather than hard-coded. Pick one to see what it covers.
Breadth is worth nothing if the metrology underneath is shallow. Most systems store the verdict someone worked out elsewhere; Metroliq computes it — expanded uncertainty at your coverage factor, test uncertainty ratio, and a guard band that decides when a reading inside tolerance still isn't safe to accept. Move the sliders. This is the same maths the platform runs.
Values in micrometres, shown in millimetres. Guard band is the simple ILAC-G8 case, w = U.
The parts of a metrology system that normally need a consultant are builders here. Each one produces a versioned, audited artefact a qualified person approves before it goes near real work.
Nothing is signed by a model. Every AI output arrives as a draft for a qualified person to review, edit and approve, and the audit trail records who approved what.
Point a manufacturer datasheet at it and get a drafted five-facet measurement form — points, tolerances, method, standards, uncertainty contributors. A metrologist reviews it before it is ever used on the bench.
The AI maps the columns and shows you the mapping before anything loads. Assets and years of history come across with their original certificate numbers preserved, phantom records rejected, the whole import idempotent and audited.
Recall impact is walked automatically across everything the instrument measured, a CAPA is drafted with five-whys, and management review and validation documents are drafted from the record rather than from memory.
Unknown instrument models are researched and verified against published manufacturer data, so the catalogue improves as it is used instead of decaying.
Tools in this space tend to start from one discipline and bolt on the rest, so the chain breaks at the seams between them. This is what each starting point typically gives you, and where the gaps land. Compare it against whatever you are evaluating.
| Capability | Calibration-first tools | Maintenance-first suites | Quality-first suites | Metroliq |
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Answer a few questions and the platform arrives with the modules, numbering, decision rules and starter templates that match how you operate.
Service pipeline and customer portals, CAL numbering, simple acceptance rules, and starter dimensional and electrical templates.
Work orders and preventive maintenance, internal numbering, a 365-day default cadence, and starter torque templates.
Guard-banded decisions enforced, a 180-day cadence, mandatory approver sign-off, and starter balance and PT100 templates.
The tour runs the working platform, not a mockup — the calibration engine, the certificate designer, the QMS, the traceability graph. Pilot on your own instruments with your own imported history.