Introduction

concreteQC is a powerful concrete mix design and quality control software program for concrete producers.  concreteQC is fully integrated with aggQC allowing for mix component properties to be easily kept current with data from aggregate plants. Our desktop, server, enterprise, and hosted software solutions easily scale from the single plant operators to the largest producers.  Our server, enterprise, and hosted editions are centrally managed for real-time analysis and reporting.  Automated features include email alerts on quality failures and automatic data analysis and reports that can be generated and emailed daily, weekly, or monthly.  Automated analysis and reporting saves time and money by allowing quality managers to focus on quality rather than spending hours to compile reports for sales and operations personnel.

See how easy it is to create a concrete mix using concreteQC.

Concrete Mix Design

concreteQC has many features to facilitate development of concrete mixtures including support for ACI and other design methods.  Aggregate mix components can be easily updated or substituted in all mixes because of the tight integration between concreteQC and aggQC.

• Supports ACI and other mix designs
• Supports multiple trial and final mixes
• Drag and drop mix components
• Optimized blending using automated tools for blend to minimum price, target, mid-spec, max density, or fine/aggregate volume ratio.  Optionally, use our powerful drag and drop visual blending tools for coarseness factor charts, individual retained charts, power 45 charts, and semi-log sieve charts.
• Mix component substitution
• Required strength calculations
• Combined, coarse, and fine aggregate blends
• Individual retained and coarseness factor charts
• Submittal reports
• Concrete batch and break testing

Simplify Concrete Mix and Sample Data Entry

concreteQC provides all levels of users a consistent data entry interface, insuring reliable data entry for every plant and/or lab recording concrete mix quality data. The data entry form allows users to record batch information, standard test associated with concrete mixes, and break information and results. The intuitive layout of the data-entry form allow for quick and efficient recording of batch information, break data, and other test results. Your technicians can be entering data within minutes.

Some advantages of concreteQC Batch Sample Data Entry Include:

• User Friendly, Intuitive Interface
• Supprt for typical concrete test results and worksheets
• Record break samples
• Record batch weights
• Automated Data Entry from lab balances
• Automatic email alerts on sample failures
• Immediate visual notification of test result failures
• Evaluate results against mulitple specifications
• Robust security features to limit and control use of the data entry form
• Ability to mark gradation and worksheets as completed
• Attach external documents to samples
• Record process variable results with quality information
• Associate customer and job information
• Record Lot/ Sublot, coordinates and related identification information
• Find incomplete tests using the incomplete test search tool
• Support for both plant samples and field samples

Powerful and Quick Analysis

concreteQC provides 25 different analysis tools all designed to provide you unique and detailed analysis of concrete mix results. Many of the analysis tools are available from the "Quick Tool Bar" icons that provide your front-line staff easy access to some powerful statistical summary and charting tools. These can be used to assess the performance of current results against historical data, and detect potential issues before they become customer problems. In addition, generating any of the analysis types is simple, because the search form used to find data for various analysis tools is intiutive, simple to learn, and is consistent among similar tools.

Some frequently used tools are listed below:

• Statistical Summaries - Provides a tabular summary of asphalt mix gradation, quality, process and other types of results
• Histograms, Normal Plots - Provides distribution analysis, and testing of normality of results
• Semi-Log, Power 45, Individual Retained Charts - Simple charts showing the entire gradation of product sieve results
• Run Charts, Time-Series Charts - Allows for detection and analysis of trends
• Multi-variable Charts - Compare process data against gradation or quality data, for example concrete temperature versus strength of mixture.
• Correlation Charts - Discover relationships between different types variables (gradation, quality, processing results)
• Control Charts, Cusum Charts - Robust charts to detect changes in process mean, and / or trends in data
• Frequency Charts, Frequency Analysis - Used to assess if a product is meeting sampling frequency requirements
• Optimized Blending - Create and manage aggregate blends using powerful automated and visual blending tools.
• Product Search Tool - Enter a specification and find all products that meet that specification at selected plants
• Coarseness Factor Chart - Available from the concrete mix design form.
• Mix Comparison - Ability to analyze and compare various costs associated with different mixes and the components in a mix.

Professional Reporting

aggQC provides over 50 different professional reports. Reports are organized into the following sections:

• Aggregate Reports - Individual sample reports at a selected plant
• Concrete Reports - Individual concrete mix samples, concrete mix break results, and concrete batch information.
• Product Reports- Statistical summaries of one or multiple products at a selected plant.
• Plant Reports - Statistical summaries of multiple products at one or multiple plants including key performance indicator reports. Also contains plant note and tonnage reports.
• Customer Reports - Individual sample reports for which customer and job information have been assigned.
• Incident Reports - Individual and summary customer or internal incident reports.
• Setup Reports - Displays basic and detailed aggregate product setup information at a plant.

Leverage the Power of Integrated Applications

All of our software products are tightly integrated and designed with a familiar interface to promote ease of use.  concreteQC is an integral part of the Stonemont Software Suite and allows users to manage all aspects of concrete and aggregate product data.  Application integration is extremely important for vertically integrated companies that need real-time access to aggregate product information to create and/or adjust concrete mixes.  Concrete mix component properties can be easily updated and pushed down to all mixes that use that component.  Alternatively, concrete mix components can be quicly substituted in all appropriate mixes.

The Whole Quality Picture

In addition to managing concrete sample results and mix designs, concreteQC provides additional tools that provide you and your organization a total picture of quality. You can create and mange customer incidents at plants using the customer incident data entry form and the related customer incident reports. You can record daily plant notes, which serve as an electronic journal of activities at the plant.  Plant notes are not limited to quality personnel but can be used by all plant personnel so that all plant activities are recorded in a single place.

Enterprise customers also enjoy the additional benefit of Automatic Reports, Analysis, and Evaluation tools. These tools are used to automatically generate reports and charts daily, weekly, or monthly and optionally automatically emailed to quality, sales, and operations staff and customers.   All the work is done for you.

Demonstration

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2) To schedule a web demonstration please use the Contact Us form or call us at 970-674-1148

Pricing

aggQC, asphaltQC, and concreteQC are priced per plant.  A plant license is recognized as an aggregate plant or terminal, asphalt plant, concrete plant or other facility at which you are performing quality control related functions such as sampling and/or testing and/or mix designs. In the case of collocated plants such as an aggregate plant and asphalt plant, they are considered two different plants and require separate licenses. In the case that a large aggregate plant may have multiple plants (dry plant and wash plant) within one quarry or mine they do not require separate licenses as they can be managed as one aggregate plant license.  crusherQC and plantFlow require an aggQC plant license and are priced as a single add-on to aggQC.  With the purchase of a plant add-on license you will receive both crusherQC and plantFlow for that plant.