// Manufacturing Intelligence Platform — datum24.ai
The Reference Point.
AI-powered software and consulting for CNC manufacturers. From shop floor data to executive decision — always on, always precise.
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// 01 — Services
Four ways we move the needle.
Purpose-built software and hands-on AI consulting — designed to compound on each other.
01 — Machine Intelligence
ChipIQ
Real-time OEE monitoring, machine data collection, and production analytics for CNC machining environments. Detects downtime events, cycle anomalies, tool life thresholds, and idle conditions — automatically, 24/7.
CNC OEE Platform
02 — Operations Management
OpBoard
Real-time operations board that turns machine events into actionable tasks, scheduled maintenance, and live monitoring. An event rules engine auto-creates work orders from machine alerts — no manual data entry, no dropped balls.
Shop Floor Task Engine
03 — Quality Management
QualIQ
AI-powered Quality Management System built for IATF 16949 manufacturers. Controlled documents, revision history, full audit trails, and AI-assisted Q&A across your entire QMS — ready for customer audits and registrar visits.
IATF 16949 QMS
04 — AI Consulting
AI Deployment for Machining
Hands-on consulting to deploy AI where it makes an immediate impact — automating quoting workflows, accelerating first-article documentation, streamlining quality responses, and putting production intelligence in the hands of every team member. Not theoretical AI strategy. Practical tools your team uses on day one.
Datum24 Consulting
// 02 — Platform
Your machines are talking.
We help you listen.
chipiq — live machine feed — cell_01
// Brother R650X1 — Spindle 1
// ─────────────────────────────
machine_id › "CELL-01-A"
program › "O1042_SPACEX_BRACKET"
cycle_time › 47.3s ✓ target: 48.0s
spindle_load › 62% ✓ nominal
parts_made › 1,847 ↑ +12 since last hr
oee_realtime › 84.2% ↑ target: 88%
tool_life_T4 › 1,240 / 1,500 calls ⚠
shift › "2nd — 22:14 elapsed"
// next recommended action
› schedule T4 change before shift 3
ChipIQ — CNC Data Collection
Native integration with Brother CNC controls using built-in machine data output. Captures cycle completions, tool changes, spindle loads, and machine state transitions — no aftermarket sensors, no retrofits.
Live OEE Dashboard
Availability, performance, and quality metrics updated every cycle. Surface losses before they compound into shift-level problems.
24/7 Monitoring & Alerts
Tool life warnings, cycle time drift, and downtime events — pushed to your team before they become problems. Third shift included.
ERP & MES Integration
Connects with Epicor, SAP, and custom systems. Job context, routing standards, shift schedules, and quality records flow into ChipIQ automatically.
// The OEE Framework
Three metrics. One number.
The complete picture.
OEE — Overall Equipment Effectiveness — is the gold standard for measuring manufacturing productivity. ChipIQ computes it automatically from your actual machine data and ERP routing standards.
OEE = Availability × Performance × Quality
A
Availability
Was the machine producing during scheduled time?
Detects unplanned downtime, machine faults, and idle time. ChipIQ tracks machine state transitions in real time — running, idle, down, setup — so you know exactly where scheduled time is being lost.
P
Performance
Was it running at designed rate?
Compares actual cycle time against ideal cycle time from your ERP routing standards. Not generic benchmarks — your standards, for your parts, on your machines. Drift of even a few seconds per cycle compounds across a shift.
Q
Quality
Were parts made right the first time?
Integrates with ERP non-conformance records to factor scrap, rework, and rejected parts into the OEE calculation. First-pass yield is the metric that matters — ChipIQ tracks it automatically.
// Data Architecture
Three data sources.
One complete picture.
Native CNC Integration
Brother CNC controls include built-in data output capabilities that ChipIQ reads natively. Cycle completions, tool life counters, alarm states, and production counts — captured directly from the control. No aftermarket sensors, no control modifications, no hardware to install.
Brother CNC controls include built-in data output capabilities that ChipIQ reads natively. Cycle completions, tool life counters, alarm states, and production counts — captured directly from the control. No aftermarket sensors, no control modifications, no hardware to install.
Real-Time Network Polling
TCP polling captures machine state every 30 seconds — running, idle, down, setup. Combined with cycle-level data from the control, this eliminates blind spots between cycles and gives you continuous visibility.
TCP polling captures machine state every 30 seconds — running, idle, down, setup. Combined with cycle-level data from the control, this eliminates blind spots between cycles and gives you continuous visibility.
ERP Integration
Job context, routing standards, shift schedules, and quality records from Epicor, SAP, or your existing system. ChipIQ uses your actual production standards — not generic assumptions — to calculate OEE.
Job context, routing standards, shift schedules, and quality records from Epicor, SAP, or your existing system. ChipIQ uses your actual production standards — not generic assumptions — to calculate OEE.
chipiq — plant oee — 2nd shift
// Shift: 2nd | 2026-02-28 | 22:47 EST
// ─────────────────────────────────────
CELL-01-A ████████████████░░ 88.2% ✓ on target
CELL-01-B ██████████████░░░░ 81.4% ✓ on target
CELL-02-A ██████████░░░░░░░░ 62.3% ⚠ tool change
CELL-02-B █████████████████░ 91.7% ✓ on target
CELL-03-A ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.0% ■ maintenance
CELL-03-B ███████████████░░░ 85.1% ✓ on target
Plant OEE › 81.4% | Target: 85.0%
Top Loss › CELL-02-A unplanned tool change (14 min)
// 3 alerts pending | shift change: 1h 13m
// Dashboard
From floor to front office.
ChipIQ gives every level of your operation the view they need — operators see their machine, supervisors see their cell, plant managers see the floor. Alerts and events flow directly into OpBoard for action.
Real-Time OEE
OEE per machine, per cell, per plant. Updated every cycle, not every shift.
Machine State Map
See every machine's status at a glance. Running, idle, down, setup — color-coded and live.
Tool Life Tracking
Predictive alerts before tools fail. Track calls remaining against thresholds and schedule changes proactively.
Cycle Time Trending
Detect drift before it becomes a problem. Actual vs. standard cycle time, trended over hours, shifts, and weeks.
Shift Summaries
Automated reports emailed to supervisors at shift end. OEE, top losses, alerts, and actions — no manual data entry.
Downtime Pareto
Ranked by impact, not just frequency. Focus continuous improvement on the losses that actually affect delivery and margin.
// The Economics
Machine monitoring shouldn't
cost more than the machines.
Commercial Machine Monitoring
$200–400/machine/month
- Per-machine monthly subscription
- Proprietary hardware on every machine
- 100 machines = $240K–480K per year
- Vendor-hosted, vendor-controlled
ChipIQ
Self-hosted. No per-machine fee.
- Uses native CNC control data — zero additional hardware
- Runs on your network, on your terms
- Your production data stays yours
- A fraction of the cost at any scale
// AI-Enabled Intelligence
ChipIQ uses AI-powered anomaly detection to identify cycle time drift, tool wear patterns, and process deviations before they become quality events. Intelligent alerting prioritizes by impact — not just "machine stopped" but "machine stopped on a job due tomorrow for your biggest customer." The AI makes the OEE data smarter. The data makes your team faster.
// OpBoard — Operations Management
Machine events become
action items. Automatically.
OpBoard is the operations board for your shop floor. It turns machine data from ChipIQ into tasks, scheduled maintenance, and live event monitoring — all from one dashboard. When a machine goes down, when OEE drops below threshold, when a tool life alert fires — OpBoard creates the work order before your supervisor picks up the phone.
Live Task Board
KPI strip, sortable task table, inline status updates, and slide-out detail panels. See open, overdue, and due-today tasks at a glance.
Recurring Scheduler
Cron-based recurring tasks from templates. Daily TPM checks, weekly calibrations, monthly audits — scheduled and tracked automatically.
Event Rules Engine
Machine events trigger automatic task creation. Define conditions, template the response, and let the system handle the routing.
Real-Time Notifications
WebSocket-powered live updates and toast alerts. New events, task completions, and status changes — pushed to your team instantly.
Area Management
Organize by factory zone — CNC Floor, Quality Lab, Maintenance, Shipping. Each area has its own tasks, users, and event feeds.
Role-Based Access
Operators see their tasks. Managers see their areas. Admins see everything. The right visibility at every level of the operation.
// QualIQ — Quality Management
Your QMS, finally
working for you.
QualIQ is a Quality Management System built for IATF 16949 manufacturers. Controlled documents, revision tracking, audit trails, and AI-powered search across your entire quality system. When the auditor asks a question, your team has the answer in seconds — not hours.
Document Library
Procedures, work instructions, forms, and policies — all controlled, versioned, and searchable. WYSIWYG editing with full formatting support.
AI-Powered Q&A
Ask questions in plain English across your entire QMS. RAG-based retrieval with section-level citations — grounded in your actual documents, not hallucinations.
Full Audit Trail
Every view, edit, approval, and revision logged with timestamps and user attribution. Comprehensive action logging for regulatory compliance.
Revision Control
Full version tracking with change descriptions and approval workflows. Know exactly what changed, when, and why — with the paper trail to prove it.
Full-Text Search
BM25-ranked search with highlighted snippets. Find the right procedure, the right revision, the right section — instantly across your entire document library.
Cross-References
See how documents relate to each other. Trace from a work instruction to its parent procedure to the IATF clause it satisfies.
// Integrated Platform
ChipIQ, OpBoard, and QualIQ are built to work together. Machine events from ChipIQ flow into OpBoard as actionable tasks. Quality events link to controlled documents in QualIQ. One platform, three applications, zero gaps between your machine data, your operations, and your quality system.
// 03 — Process
From install to insight
in four steps.
01
Step One
Connect
We integrate with your Brother CNC machines using their native data output capabilities, connect to your ERP, and deploy the platform on your network. No aftermarket sensors, no cloud dependency.
02
Step Two
Collect
ChipIQ captures every cycle completion, tool change, machine state transition, and idle event — automatically. Real-time polling fills the gaps for continuous 24/7 visibility across your floor.
03
Step Three
Organize
Machine events flow into OpBoard as actionable tasks. Quality records live in QualIQ with full audit trails. OEE is computed against your actual routing standards — not generic benchmarks.
04
Step Four
Act
Dashboards, alerts, auto-generated work orders, and audit-ready quality documents give your team the intelligence to act — from the operator at the machine to the plant manager in the front office.
// 04 — About
Built from the shop floor.
Datum24 was founded by manufacturing operators — people who have managed CNC cells, launched automotive programs, held the quality pen during PPAP, and answered the phone at 2am when a machine went down.
We understand the pressures of contract manufacturing. Customer audits. PPM targets. Delivery scorecards. The gap between what the ERP says and what actually happened on the floor last night.
We built our platform — ChipIQ for machine intelligence, OpBoard for operations management, and QualIQ for quality management — because the tools available were either too expensive, too generic, or both. CNC shops deserve intelligence designed for the way they actually work — not enterprise software adapted from a different industry.
// The Name
DATUM24
In CNC machining, a datum is the fixed reference point from which all measurements are taken. Every dimension on a print, every tolerance, every inspection result traces back to the datum. It is the origin of precision.
- Datum — the reference point for your operation. The single source of truth for what your machines are doing, how they're performing, and where to focus next.
- 24 — always on. Round-the-clock intelligence that doesn't stop when second shift starts or when the front office goes home.
- Deep CNC expertise — IATF 16949, VDA, PPAP, APQP. We speak the language of automotive manufacturing because we've lived it.
// 05 — Why Datum24
Built from the floor up.
01
Purpose-built for CNC.
Not a generic factory IoT platform adapted for machining. ChipIQ, OpBoard, and QualIQ are designed around the realities of CNC operations — tool offsets, spindle loads, G-code programs, IATF audits. We built it for your world because we come from it.
02
No hardware tax.
Commercial monitoring systems charge per-machine monthly fees and require proprietary hardware on every machine. ChipIQ leverages native data output capabilities already built into your Brother CNC controls. Zero additional hardware for networked machines.
03
AI expertise and shop floor experience.
Most AI companies don't know manufacturing. Most manufacturing consultants can't build software. We do both — deploying AI where it makes an immediate impact on your team's productivity, backed by real operational knowledge.
04
Automotive-grade reliability.
We serve Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. We understand IATF 16949 audits, customer scorecards, PPM targets, and the consequences of a containment event. Our standards match yours.
05
Self-hosted. You own your data.
Your production data stays on your network. No cloud dependency, no vendor lock-in, no third party storing your cycle times and OEE metrics. You control the infrastructure and the information.
06
We've run the machines.
Our team has managed CNC cells, launched automotive programs, and held the quality pen during PPAP. We don't theorize about shop floor problems — we've lived them, at 3am and in the board room.
// See what your machines are saying.
Ready to set your
reference point?
Whether you need real-time OEE, an operations board that acts on machine events, or a quality system built for IATF 16949 — let's talk.
What to expect: a technical conversation with someone who has been on the floor — not a sales pitch. We'll assess your machines, your data infrastructure, and your goals, then show you exactly what our platform can do for your shop.