Materials Prep
An electronic lab notebook built for prep. Log samples, run batches, save recipes, file micrographs, generate reports. One place for the daily work of a metallography lab.
Free to try · Free tier for individuals.
An electronic lab notebook is the digital version of the paper journal a lab keeps on the bench. Materials Prep is one built specifically for metallography: the samples you mount, the steps you grind and polish, the etchants you reach for, the images you take, and the reports you hand off when the job is done.
If today your lab lives in a notebook, an Excel sheet, a folder of micrographs on a shared drive, or a LIMS that was not built for prep, this is for you.
Paper notebooks get lost, smudged, or stay behind when someone leaves.
Spreadsheets hold numbers, not micrographs. Word docs forget what the recipe was.
The best recipes live in one person’s head, and walk out the door when they retire.
Six months later, a part fails. No one can reconstruct exactly how it was prepped.
Use one, use all four. Each works on its own. Together they make a prep journal you will actually open in the morning.
Log every specimen, group them into prep runs, and track them through mount, grind, polish, etch, and image. Each sample carries its history. Each batch is a re-runnable record of how a group was actually prepared.
| ID | Material | Stage | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMPL-0184 | 6061-T6 | Polished | 2d |
| SMPL-0185 | 304 SS | Etching | 1h |
| SMPL-0186 | Ti-6Al-4V | Mounting | 12m |
| SMPL-0187 | WC-Co | Queued | just now |
The right procedure is never more than a tap away. Tap into the MP Library when you want, a growing collection of recipes shared by other labs you can fork into yours.
Your micrographs, organized by material, magnification, and etchant, with the prep steps that produced them attached. Opt in to the global Atlas to see how other labs prepared a similar material before you start.
Ask Mai to suggest a starting recipe for a new material, troubleshoot pull-out on a soft alloy, or explain what a feature in your micrograph might be. She works in context, so she knows what sample you are looking at.
Generate PDFs and editable Word reports straight from sample data. Useful for failure analysis deliverables, customer-facing documentation, and audit trails that hold up when someone asks how a part was actually prepped.
Reports are a Lab-tier feature. See pricing →
Heat treat shops, failure analysis groups, and QA labs that need to prove how a sample was prepped, weeks or years later.
Metallography courses, student research, and faculty labs that want one place for recipes, results, and teaching micrographs.
Single metallographers who want their work organized without buying a LIMS, and the option to scale up if the team grows.
Distributed labs that need a shared recipe library and consistent reporting across locations.
Free tier for individuals. Lab tier for teams. Both at materialsprep.com.
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