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01.a.1Enterprise AI · Flagship product

MIDAS.

Cleans up your list of parts and materials. It finds the duplicates, fills in the missing details and stops new duplicates being created.

Your material master already knows what you own. MIDAS makes it say so — clearly, once, and with the evidence attached.

Material Intelligence & Data Automation System

See it on your dataWhat you get
Fig. 00One record, understood

The MIDAS film · 45 seconds

Same part. Three codes. Bought twice.

How MIDAS reads a record, finds its duplicates and stops the next one being created. Under a minute, start to finish.

Fig. 01Five descriptions, one part

01The problem

Intelligence, trapped in text.

Every plant keeps a material master: the record of every motor, bearing, valve, seal, spare and consumable it buys, stores and maintains. Built up over decades by many hands, it fills with the same part written five different ways, specifications buried in free text, missing manufacturers and mixed units.

MIDAS reads those records the way an experienced materials engineer would. It structures them, finds the duplicates text search can't see, reasons about which parts can genuinely stand in for which, and puts a gate in front of new codes so the mess stops growing.

  • The same part entered many times, each under a different description
  • Specifications locked inside free text no system can filter on
  • Missing or inconsistent manufacturers, units and classification codes
  • Parts filed as the machine they belong to — a brush holder filed as a motor
  • No quick, trustworthy answer to “do we already have this?”
  • New codes raised every day, so every clean-up starts decaying at once

What it does, in one record

Raw text, as found

BRG TPR RLLR DBL ROW
ID 510MM OD 950MM
MAKE: SKF AG

Structured, with its source

class
bearing
item role
is a bearing — not a part for one
bearing type
taper roller
rows
double
inside diameter
510 mm
outside diameter
950 mm
manufacturer
SKF

Illustrative example. The original text is kept unchanged beside the cleansed record.

MIDAS — Material Intelligence & Data Automation System
Fig. 02Interfaces and ratings, coupled

02Reasons like an engineer

Can this stand in for that?

Sharing specs isn't the same as being interchangeable. A substitute is valid only when it meets or exceeds every rating and fits every interface exactly — and raising a rating often changes an interface.

R01

Capability can exceed

A seal rated to 320 °C can serve where 280 °C is needed. Insulation class H can stand in for F. Ratings are directional, and MIDAS knows which way each one points.

R02

Interfaces must match

A higher pressure-class flange is stronger and still won't bolt into the same line. Bore, flange, mounting, voltage and phase match exactly — capability rose, fit was lost.

R03

Bigger isn't free

An oversized motor isn't an upgrade. Its overload relay, contactor, cable and breaker were all sized to the original nameplate. A rating other equipment was sized against never upgrades for free.

R04

Kind before spec

An actuator is not a motor, however much the specs overlap. Equipment-kind walls mean different equipment never merges or substitutes, while the same equipment written two ways is recognised as one.

R05

Traps, encoded

IP67 doesn't imply IP65 — they're different tests. A higher-efficiency motor can draw far more starting current and weld an undersized contactor. These go out as conditions, never silent passes.

R06

Built-for is reported

Parts written “for” a specific machine are kept apart from general-purpose stock and labelled with what they were built for — shown, never hidden, and ranked below equal general parts.

Verdicts, not scores

  • Identical

    The same part under another code.

  • Substitutable

    Meets or exceeds every rating, and every interface fits.

  • Conditional

    Could serve — with the condition stated on the row.

  • Not substitutable

    Refused, with the reason named.

  • Undetermined

    Not enough data to say. MIDAS says so.

Every verdict names the rule it used, so a reviewer can overrule it.

03What you get

The whole lifecycle.

From the first clean-up to every new code raised after it.

Fig. 03Many minds, one master
01

Search-first creation

A new material code has to be checked, justified and reviewed before it exists.

  • Candidates found by specification, not wording — the same motor written five ways still turns up
  • Submission is gated when an existing part already matches on its critical specs
  • The only way past the gate is a written justification
  • The evidence the requester saw is frozen, so the reviewer sees exactly the same thing
  • Alternatives that differ but would serve are offered too, each with its verdict
03

Standards & SAP

Clean descriptions and codes, ready to load back.

  • Standardised short and long descriptions
  • UNSPSC mapping from the authoritative reference — unverified codes stay unassigned
  • SAP-aligned material types, groups and units
  • Three exports: human-reviewed only, human plus high-confidence automatic, or everything
04

Procurement gate

Checks the master and the stock before a purchase order is raised.

  • Proceed, review, redirect to an existing code, or block
  • Looks for in-stock alternatives before buying again
  • Every verdict carries its reasoning
05

Copilot

Ask questions of your material data in plain language.

  • Strictly read-only by construction — it has no way to write
  • Shows the data behind every answer
06

Related parts

Knows how classes connect — what drives, protects and fits what.

  • Join checks such as coupling torque and motor current, always labelled when estimated
  • Associations it can't verify are shown as such, never upgraded
Fig. 04Yours, and getting sharper

04Gets sharper with use

Learns from people, not around them.

  1. L1

    A correction is memory

    Once a person corrects a value, MIDAS keeps it through every future reprocess. It doesn't repeat tomorrow the mistake it was corrected on today.

  2. L2

    Every decision is attributed

    Approvals, rejections and justifications go into one ledger: who decided, what, and why.

  3. L3

    Patterns become proposals

    When the same judgement is confirmed independently enough times, it becomes a proposal for a person to accept. Nothing is ever applied on its own.

  4. L4

    Measured, not claimed

    Classification and substitution are scored against hand-labelled test sets, by precision and recall per class. The number that matters most is “confidently wrong”.

Sovereign by design

  • Runs on your own infrastructure
  • Local language models by default — zero external calls
  • Works fully offline, with no AI service at all
  • External AI is an explicit, per-session opt-in
  • Every value traceable to its source and confidence
  • The original data is never modified

Questions about MIDAS

Does MIDAS change our data?

Not on its own. Your original upload is kept exactly as it came in, and every change is recorded with its source and confidence. MIDAS proposes changes; people approve them.

Do we need to send data to an AI provider?

No. MIDAS runs on your infrastructure with local language models by default. An external AI service is something you switch on deliberately, if you ever want it.

What if MIDAS isn't sure?

It says so. A field it can't fill with enough evidence stays blank and is flagged; a class it can't decide is left as generic; a substitution it can't validate is marked undetermined. In master data, restraint is the intelligence: a blank is recoverable, a confident wrong value is not.

Which material classes does it cover?

It started with rotating equipment — motors, bearings, gearboxes, pumps, valves and seals — and now covers a broad industrial range, from switchgear and fans to couplings, transformers and wear parts.

Does it work with SAP?

Yes. It reads standard material master exports and writes back SAP-aligned descriptions, groups, units and classification codes, in exports you choose by review level.

How do we start?

With a sample of your material master. We'll show you what MIDAS finds in it — duplicates, gaps and misfiled parts — before you commit to anything.

Guides

Plain-language guides on the problems this work solves.

Rather talk it through? Tell us the problem in a few lines and a person will answer it.

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Bring a sample of your material master.

We'll show you what MIDAS finds in it — duplicates, gaps and misfiled parts — before you commit to anything.

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