Capability · for QA head, plant head, owner
A bad lot arrives. You need the unit list, not a project.
Forward trace answers the only question that matters during a containment: which units are affected, and which are provably clean. Trace answers it from an index, so the answer arrives while the customer is still on the phone.
Trace by component lot
Enter the lot code your supplier flagged. Trace returns every unit that consumed it, with the job card, the operation it was fitted at, the operator, and the dispatch date. Units that never touched the lot are proven clean, which is usually the more valuable half of the answer.
Trace by machine and time window
A torque gun drifts out of calibration and you only find out at the weekly check. Ask Trace which units that device measured between 14:00 and 16:00 on Tuesday. Most systems cannot ask this question at all, because they record that a part was scanned rather than which instrument produced the reading.
Indexed, not scanned
Genealogy stores serialised children and lot consumption in separate indexed columns rather than one JSON blob. That is a schema decision made specifically so the recall query stays a lookup as the table grows past ten million rows.
Containment window, not just a count
The result carries first and last build timestamps for the affected set, so you can bound the containment rather than quarantining a month of production to be safe.
Book a 20-minute line walkthrough
We walk one line, list what each operation should capture, and tell you plainly which of your machines can be read. You get that list whether or not you buy anything.
Where this matters
- Auto components and Tier 1/2Your OEM customer can ask for the build record of a single part number from eight months ago and expects it the same week. Trace keeps that record per unit, in a form that holds up when it is challenged.
- Planning a recall scope calculation before you need oneHow to bound a containment when a component lot goes bad, and why proving units clean matters as much as finding the affected ones.
- Process data captureTrace records what was done to each unit, not just that it was scanned. Torque per fastener, grease applied, test readings, with limits held as configuration.