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Inspect to the design. Record it once.

First-article, receiving, in-process and final inspections against the controlled design, recorded as they happen, so the certificate writes itself and reliability starts at the first part.

One in three manufacturers found new suppliers in 2025 because of tariffs · Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond survey, May 2025
See it on your plant drawingA working session on your own plant.
  1. Planwhat to inspect
  2. Inspecton the tablet
  3. Measureeach characteristic
  4. Decideaccept, rework, hold
  5. Releasewith the certificate
Why careful plants still get it wrong

The first part passed. The thousandth failed.

Most plants inspect carefully and still find the problem after the run. A first article inspected to the design, every characteristic recorded, is where reliability starts: the run is proven before it is made, and every later inspection tells you what is drifting.

NEXUS puts the controlled design on the inspector's screen, records each characteristic against it from the first article on, and feeds every result to reliability: which characteristics drift, which suppliers slip, which parts come back. When a tariff makes you change suppliers, the first-article inspection is already planned from the design, so a new vendor is qualified in days, not quarters.
How it works

From the design to the certificate, one record.

01

Plan

What to inspect comes from the design and the order: first article, receiving, in-process or final; the characteristics, the tolerances, the sample.

02

Inspect and measure

Each characteristic recorded on the tablet against the current revision of the design, with the inspector's role and the time.

03

Decide and release

Accept, rework or hold. The certificate and the nonconformance come from the same record, not from a retyped form.

What each person gets

Measured once. Proven anywhere.

The inspector

The design on the screen

The current revision and the characteristics to measure, nothing to look up.

The quality lead and purchasing

A new supplier, qualified fast

The first article planned from the design, measured once, decided on the record. Changing vendors stops being a quarter of paperwork.

The executive

Reliability you can see

First-pass yield, drift and returns by part and by supplier on the Clarity board, and a certificate the customer can trust.

Proof

Numbers we can stand behind.

1 in 3

In a May 2025 survey of manufacturers, 35 percent had found new domestic suppliers and 32 percent new foreign ones because of tariffs. Every one of those changes starts with a first article.Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, regional survey, May 2025

Every count NEXUS shows you is measured on your own records: first articles passed, first-pass yield, characteristics drifting, holds open. We do not quote averages from someone else's pilot.

Connected

One record, eight modules.

Documents

The current revision

The inspection is against the issued design.

Quality Engineering

A failed characteristic becomes a finding

With its measurements attached.

Asset Management

The part on the asset

Which assets a part went into, so a recall never has to be wide.

Clarity

First-pass yield and drift

By part, by supplier, by week.

Starting

A walkthrough on your own part.

Bring one design and one first article. In a working session NEXUS plans the inspection from the design in front of you, you measure it on a tablet, and the certificate appears. No slides, no migration, nothing to install.

What you need

One first article. One hour.

A design, a part and the person who signs certificates. Works the same with the intelligence switched off.

See it on your plant drawing.

Inspect to the drawing, record it once.

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