# NoGaps

> NoGaps (NordicGate Production System) is a web-based system for traceability, quality control and digital work instructions in assembly and manufacturing. Operators scan the serial number, article number and revision of each part as they build, get step-by-step instructions between scans, and the system stops the wrong part or revision before it is built in. Every event is logged and never overwritten, so each unit gets a complete build record. Promise: "Closing the gaps". Made by Nordic Gate Product Studio (https://www.nordicgate.se), an independent product studio in Sweden.

NoGaps is a complement to the ERP system, not a replacement and not a full MES: the ERP plans and prioritises, NoGaps shows, checks and traces what happens on the shop floor. It runs in the browser on computers, tablets and phones (the phone camera can read barcodes), in English and Swedish. It is multi-tenant: many companies, each seeing only its own data. Accounts are created by each company's administrator; there is no public sign-up. NoGaps is in pilot and is being opened to manufacturing companies one at a time. To learn more or book a demo: contact@nordicgate.se.

## What it does

- **Design:** describe a product once: articles, a variant-aware structure (a "150 %" bill of materials where branches and instruction content depend on options such as screen size), the flow of operations and stations, and the work instructions. Quality releases it. Product revisions and process revisions are versioned (shown as e.g. "C/r1"), and a change to a part rolls up through everything it sits in as one change that is released at once.
- **Production (the station):** the operator scans their badge and the unit, then follows the steps. Step types: scan a component (checked against article and approved revision), confirm, measurement with limits, waiting/test time (e.g. curing or burn-in) that blocks the next step, photo, and signature or a second person's check. A blocked step can only be forced if the step allows it, with a reason that is logged.
- **Labels:** the system learns how supplier and customer labels look (standards are recognised automatically; AI can propose a format, but scanning itself runs only fixed rules, never AI).
- **Traceability:** search on serial number or lot. Each unit has a build record (who did what, when, where, with which revision, deviations, forcing and signatures), its full contents down through sub-assemblies, and where it is mounted. Answers questions like "which units got components from lot X?" for recalls, troubleshooting and warranty.
- **Start page and calls:** live traffic lights per product, plan versus actual hour by hour, production goals, stopped units, and an "I need help" call from the station to a call screen with escalation. Figures are never shown per person.
- **System:** sites, stations, departments, groups, shifts, people, roles and permissions (enforced in the database), terminals, features that can be switched on and off, import of articles and structure from ERP, export of all company data, and an AI help chat that answers only from the help texts.

## Principles

- Log, never overwrite: every scan is a new event; replacing a part is recorded as removal plus a new mounting.
- Validate at the scan: the wrong article or revision stops the step immediately.
- Write once, filter per variant: one structure and one flow per product family covers all variants.
- Version everything that controls the build, and record which revision each unit was built to.
- Components can be assemblies themselves, traced in both directions.
- The serial number follows the physical individual, even if its article number changes (e.g. after programming).
- Built for many kinds of manufacturing and many companies; the example used throughout is a vehicle computer.

## Pages

- [About NoGaps (English)](https://nogaps.se/about): what NoGaps is, how it works and who it is for
- [Om NoGaps (svenska)](https://nogaps.se/om): samma sida på svenska
- [Full product documentation](https://nogaps.se/llms-full.txt): the complete user help in English as one text file
- [The app and sign-in](https://nogaps.se/): requires an account

## Demo videos (English)

- [NoGaps in 30 seconds](https://nogaps.se/demo/nogaps-film-en.mp4): short film, an operator scans parts and the wrong part is stopped
- [Introduction](https://nogaps.se/demo/intro-en.mp4)
- [Design](https://nogaps.se/demo/design-en.mp4)
- [Production](https://nogaps.se/demo/production-en.mp4)
- [Dashboard and help button](https://nogaps.se/demo/dashboard-en.mp4)
- [Traceability](https://nogaps.se/demo/traceability-en.mp4)

## Optional

- [Nordic Gate Product Studio](https://www.nordicgate.se): the company behind NoGaps