Evidence intelligence for regulated manufacturing

Turn supplier documents into audit-ready materials records.

Borel extracts, reviews, validates, and structures technical evidence from MTRs, certifications, and inspection records — then builds digital material twins that carry readiness, traceability, and compliance intelligence through every lot, process step, and shipment.

Open workflow demo App dashboard

Demo covers: evidence → material twin → lineage → harmonization → report

Evidence Record

7075-T6 Aluminum · Heat H87321

Ready

3Documents

24Extracted fields

12Material facts

0Open findings

Fact key	Value	Source
`material_grade`	7075-T6	MTR-01
`heat_number`	H87321	MTR-01
`yield_strength_mpa`	469 MPa	MTR-01
`tensile_strength_mpa`	538 MPa	MTR-01
`elongation_pct`	11.2 %	MTR-01
`cert_standard`	AMS 2770	COC-01

The problem

Critical supplier evidence still lives in PDFs, email, and spreadsheets.

Regulated manufacturers in aerospace, defense, and industrial materials are required to maintain traceability for every critical material they buy. In practice, that means chasing PDFs, manually copying values into spreadsheets, and praying nothing gets lost before an audit.

The result is evidence that is fragile, hard to query, and nearly impossible to validate at scale. Borel replaces that process with a structured, source-linked record that survives audits.

Mill test reports received as scanned PDFs, manually reviewed
Certificates of conformance tracked in shared inbox folders
Field values transcribed by hand into spreadsheet rows
No traceability from raw cert to approved material fact
Validation rules encoded in tribal knowledge, not software
Audit preparation takes days of manual document assembly

Platform capabilities

What Borel does.

Ingest evidence

Upload PDFs, CSV exports, and raw certs. Each document is attached to a named evidence package with material identity and provenance preserved.

Create digital material twins

Convert ingested evidence into a structured digital record for each heat, lot, coil, bar, plate, or batch — carrying all verified claims from source documents.

Track material lineage

When material splits, processes, or ships, inherited evidence follows automatically. Maintain parent-child traceability from original heat through every downstream record.

Harmonize standards and units

Normalize units across MPa, ksi, psi, mm, and in. Map evidence across ASTM, AMS, EN, ISO, JIS, DIN, and GB — and flag equivalence gaps for quality or engineering review.

Validate readiness and risk

Run validation against material specification rules. Surface missing evidence, spec mismatches, expired certs, and chain-of-custody gaps before they become audit findings.

Generate audit-ready outputs

Produce technical sheets, compliance reports, customer cert packs, harmonization reports, lineage reports, and audit-ready evidence records on demand.

How it works

From raw supplier document to validated evidence record.

Ingest supplier documents

Upload PDFs, CSV exports, or raw certs. Each document is attached to a named evidence package with material family and identifier.

Extract technical claims

Borel proposes field values extracted from the document — heat number, yield strength, cert standard, lot number — each with a confidence score and source reference.

Review and approve material facts

Engineers accept or reject each proposed field. Accepted values become source-linked material facts on the evidence record.

Validate and publish the record

Run validation against material specification rules. The composed evidence record forms the basis for a digital material twin — audit-ready and permanently queryable.

Digital material twins

Living material records that follow material as it moves.

Materials move. PDFs do not. Borel converts supplier evidence into digital material twins — structured records that can follow material through receiving, splitting, processing, allocation, shipment, and audit.

Material lineageHeat H87321 · 7075-T6 Aluminum

◉Heat H87321 · 7075-T6 Coil · AMS 4168Source

├─Lot A-001 · receiving · 850 kgReady

│ ├─WO-441 · processed · 12 pcsComplete

│ │ └─SHP-2201 → Customer XYZShipped

│ └─WO-442 · allocatedOn hold

└─Lot A-002 · receiving · 600 kgReady

└─SHP-2202 → Customer ABCShipped

Evidence inherited at every level · source document hashes preserved

Parent-child lot lineage
Inherited evidence at every level
Source document hashes
Append-only audit trail
Customer-specific cert packs
Readiness status by lot, order, and shipment

Standards harmonization

Make material evidence portable across standards systems.

Global supply chains cross ASTM, AMS, EN, ISO, JIS, DIN, GB, and customer-specific requirements. Borel helps normalize material evidence across standards systems, convert units, and flag equivalence gaps for quality or engineering review.

Supplier evidence

JIS · EN · ISO

490 MPa yield

686 MPa tensile

201 HB hardness

Canonical facts

Normalized

yield_strength_mpa

tensile_strength_mpa

hardness_hb

hardness_hrc ≈ est.

Buyer requirement

ASTM · AMS · Spec

min 483 MPa yield

min 655 MPa tensile

customer spec

Equivalence status

Harmonization report

Match

Review required

Conditional †

† Hardness conversions (HB / HRC / HV) are empirical approximations. Borel surfaces these as conditional equivalences and flags them for engineering review — equivalence is evidence-based and reviewable, not automatically asserted.

Unit normalization

MPa, ksi, psi conversion
mm to in dimensional conversion
°C / °F temperature normalization
Hardness scale approximation with caveats (HB / HRC / HV)

Equivalence review

Compare actual measured values against buyer requirements
Map ASTM / AMS / EN / JIS / DIN / ISO / GB candidate equivalence
Generate Harmonization Report or Equivalence Review
Flag gaps that require engineering or quality approval

Document types

Built for every document in the materials evidence chain.

Supported

Mill test reports

Extract chemical composition, mechanical properties, heat number, lot number, and cert standard from raw MTRs.

Supported

Certificates of conformance

Parse and validate supplier COCs against purchase order requirements and material specifications.

Supported

Heat and lot traceability

Link heat numbers and lot codes across documents to build a complete, unbroken chain of custody for each material.

Supported

Process and inspection records

Attach process certifications and inspection reports to evidence packages alongside MTRs and COCs.

Supported

Supplier quality documentation

Capture and version approved supplier quality plans, first article inspection reports, and quality agreements.

Upcoming

Digital product passports

Structured evidence records ready for emerging DPP requirements in aerospace, automotive, and advanced materials.

Evidence model

From evidence to action — a structured data model.

Every claim is traceable to a source document, every fact is traceable to an extracted field, and every record carries its validation, harmonization, and lineage history.

Document

PDF, CSV, or image uploaded by the supplier. Immutable source of record with hashed provenance.

Extracted Field

Proposed field key and raw value parsed from the document, with confidence score and source reference.

Material Fact

Engineer-accepted claim, source-linked to the originating extracted field.

Digital Material Twin

Structured record for the heat, lot, or part — carrying verified facts, lineage, and readiness status.

Requirement Check

Facts compared against buyer requirements and standards. Equivalence gaps flagged for review.

Risk or Readiness Finding

Pass / fail / conditional result from running facts against material specification and equivalence rules.

Evidence Record

Composed audit-ready record with status, lineage, and outputs — cert packs, reports, and harmonization reviews.

ERP integration

ERP owns transactions. Borel owns evidence intelligence.

Borel connects with ERP systems without replacing them. ERP tracks the business objects and transactions; Borel adds evidence, readiness intelligence, and compliance context to every relevant record.

ERP tracks

Purchase orders
Sales orders
Suppliers
Customers
Inventory lots
Work orders
Shipments

Borel adds

Digital material twins
Evidence inheritance
Readiness status
Risk findings
Harmonization reports
Cert pack links
Quality holds

Risk detection

Surface supply chain evidence risk before it becomes an audit finding.

Borel is designed to detect evidence gaps and anomalies that manual review routinely misses.

Missing

Missing evidence

Required documents or mandatory fact keys absent from an evidence package trigger a validation finding before the record can be approved.

Conflict

Conflicting heat / lot data

Heat numbers or lot codes that appear inconsistently across documents in the same package are flagged for engineer review.

Expired

Expired supplier certifications

Supplier approval dates and certification expiry fields are tracked. Expired certs are surfaced as validation warnings.

Mismatch

Spec mismatch

Material properties extracted from MTRs are compared against specification limits. Out-of-tolerance values produce validation findings on the record.

Duplicate

Duplicate or reused certs

Certificate numbers and heat numbers seen across multiple evidence packages are flagged to detect recycled or fraudulent supplier documentation.

Gap

Chain-of-custody gaps

Where traceability breaks — a heat number referenced in one document but absent from another — Borel flags the discontinuity in the evidence chain.

Outputs

Audit-ready outputs for every stakeholder.

Technical data sheets

Structured summaries of material properties, heat data, and cert references.

Compliance reports

Evidence-backed conformance summaries for internal quality and procurement teams.

Customer cert packs

Customer-specific evidence packages assembled from lot and shipment records.

Audit-ready evidence records

Structured records with full provenance chain, validation findings, and audit trail.

Material lineage reports

Heat-to-shipment traceability reports covering every lot, process step, and split.

Harmonization reports

Equivalence reviews comparing supplier evidence against buyer standards — with gaps flagged for approval.

Supplier scorecards

Evidence quality and conformance summaries by supplier, material family, and time period.

Shipment readiness reports

Per-shipment readiness status with blocking findings and evidence completeness summary.