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Material & heat traceability

When an auditor asks which certificate covers the plate in this joint, the answer is a hunt through a folder of PDFs and a hope that the heat number on the plate matches one of them.

How it works

  1. 01

    Register the material with its certificate

    Each material carries its inspection document — EN 10204 type 2.2, 3.1 or 3.2 — and the heat/cast number it was supplied under.

  2. 02

    Bind heat to the work

    The heat number is attached to the joints and components it went into, so "which cert covers this weld" is a link, not a search.

  3. 03

    Prove the document type

    Where the contract requires a 3.1 or a 3.2, the register shows what you actually hold against what's required — before the audit, not during it.

What it covers

Certificate register

EN 10204 2.2 / 3.1 / 3.2 documents held against the material they certify.

Heat-number binding

Cast/heat numbers linked to the joints and parts they became — traceability by construction.

Where-used

From a certificate or a heat, the joints and assemblies it appears in — and the reverse.

Document-type check

What the contract requires (3.1 vs 3.2) against what you hold, flagged when short.

Feeds the dossier

The material certificates section of the MRB/MDR assembles itself from this register.

The material certificate is one of the first things a client’s auditor opens, and one of the easiest to lose the thread of: a plate arrives with a heat number stamped on it, a certificate arrives by email, and the two are only ever connected in someone’s head until the day they have to be connected on paper.

This module holds the certificate against the material and binds the heat number to the joints the material went into. “Which certificate covers this weld” becomes a link you follow, and the material-certificate section of the handover dossier assembles from it rather than being gathered at the end.