Instrument networks
you can actually govern
Adding an analyser becomes a configuration change, not a project.
Illustration of the FOSS IQX™ Device Management user interface
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The parts of the job that eat the day
A separate stack per instrument
Every analyser arrives with its own client software, its own driver and its own support path.
Access managed twice
Instrument sign-in sits outside the directory you already run, so it is maintained by hand.
Data in unmanaged places
Results on local machines and shared drives, outside your retention and backup policy.
Where you sit in the flow
Adding an analyser or a site becomes a configuration change rather than a rollout.
One platform to govern, not a fleet of clients
Instruments connect to a cloud platform with central role management and managed retention. Adding a site or an analyser is a configuration change rather than a rollout.
- Central role-based access across sites
- Managed data retention rather than local files
- Cloud-based, so nothing to install per machine
Both products are open to your role. Here is what each one does with your day.
FOSS IQX™ Device Management
FOSS IQX™ Supplier Quality
Adding a site without a project
A new analyser arrives at a plant that already runs others. It joins the existing network as a configuration change rather than a rollout, so there is no client software to package and no per-machine install to schedule.
Access follows roles rather than individual instrument logins. When somebody moves team or leaves, that is one change in one place instead of a list of systems to work through.
Retention is set once against your policy rather than depending on what happens to sit on a workstation in a laboratory.
- New instruments are configuration, not deployment
- One access model instead of one per analyser
- Retention governed rather than assumed
The parts you will actually open
Network and IT managers spend most of their time in these.
Network
Instrument networks and site structure.
Roles and resources
Access managed centrally per role.
Data storage
Retention configured to your policy.
Instrument settings
Configuration managed without a site visit.
Instrument software
Version state across the fleet.
Model authorization
Control which calibrations are live.
SSO (add-on)
Sign in through your own identity provider.
API (add-on)
Move data between FOSS IQX™ and your own systems.
SSO and API are optional add-ons. A specialist can confirm what applies to your environment.
Two products, one thing to govern
Both run on the same software under the same access model, so adopting the second is a configuration rather than a new platform.
FOSS IQX™ Device Management
One platform to govern rather than a client application per analyser, with central roles, retention and connectivity.
- Full fleet control remotely
- Decide centrally in minutes, execute locally in seconds
- Alerted to actions in minutes
FOSS IQX™ Supplier Quality
Supplier records under the same access model, without standing up a second system for procurement.
- Increase visibility across your suppliers
- Strengthen trust and relationships with your suppliers
- Improve your supply chain resilience
Somebody who runs it already
The recording, 2:04 to 2:55
United Wisconsin Grain Producers
Friesland, Wisconsin
I can go on from home, from my phone, from anywhere I have an internet connection.
Both instruments are connected to IQX™ – so rather than having one software package for this instrument and another for that one, it’s all one web-based system. I can go on from home, from my phone, from anywhere I have an internet connection.
Not your job title?
By roleProduction Manager
Live status across your line, with readings checked against your specifications as they arrive.
ExploreBy roleLab Manager
The analysers on your bench reporting into one place, with methods and calibrations held alongside the results.
ExploreBy roleQA Manager
Searchable records across sites and suppliers, so audit evidence is held in one place rather than gathered from several.
ExploreBy roleProcurement Manager
One record per supplier, with expiry dates surfaced before anyone else finds them.
ExploreBy roleOperator
The next task in order at the instrument, with results recorded as you work.
ExploreSee them all on the roles hub.
What IT asks before it signs anything off
Where is the data held?
Can we use our own identity provider?
Can it feed our other systems?
What does it need from our network?
How are roles structured?
Can we get data out if we stop using it?
Bring instrument infrastructure under one roof
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FOSS IQX™ Device Management
Monitor and maintain your FOSS analytical instruments across your sites, with results, calibration and alerts in one place.
- Live status across your sites
- Uptime and maintenance tracked in one place
- Results held with the method that produced them
FOSS IQX™ Supplier Quality
Keep supplier documents, certificates, audits and evaluations current and searchable, with suppliers maintaining their own files.
- Expiry dates surfaced before they lapse
- Suppliers update their own documentation
- Consistent scoring across your suppliers
Thirty minutes, your operation
Tell us what you run and what is getting in the way. A specialist for your sector picks it up, not a shared inbox.
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