For the keepers of the record
Excel stays. The 2 a.m. cleanup goes.
You run the import-validate-fix loop that keeps the program honest. MaxTrax treats the workbook as a first-class interface — and makes every error land on its fix.
Who it serves / Data coordinators
Sound familiar?
The problems worth naming.
Imports that bite back
One bad row kills the batch — or worse, a double-submitted append quietly poisons the weld log and someone finds out at turnover.
Validation messages that don’t help
“Invalid input, row 214.” Which field? Why? What now? The error report is a puzzle, not a to-do list.
The shadow spreadsheet
The numbers leadership actually wants — rejected inches, first-pass rates — maintained by hand because the system can’t answer.
How MaxTrax answers
Designed against exactly these scars.
Check out, edit in Excel, return
Pull the project workbook, work in the tool you’re fastest in, return it. Changes apply as audited row-level commands; version conflicts stop per row; absence never means delete.
Imports that triage themselves
Clean rows apply. Problem rows quarantine, grouped by error type, each with a jump-to-fix — one fix clears a cluster, and a burn-down carries you to re-import. Re-imports diff against the last run.
Quick entry with a tape
Key a spool of welds in seconds: carry-down from the last clean weld, auto-incrementing numbers, wall thickness auto-filled from size and schedule, and per-weld undo like an adding machine.
Find anything in a keystroke
The command palette jumps to any weld, drawing, package, or welder — even by heat number. It routes; it never fires an action for you.
The find-fix-verify loop, finally treated like the core workflow it is.
Be first on the new platform.
Early access is opening to a handful of programs. Bring your project — we’ll bring the record system.