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Composites manufacturing software with the out-life clock built in.

Out-life on a whiteboard means scrapping good prepreg early, or laying up material that was already dead. Bulk starts the clock when the roll leaves the freezer, and keeps the ply book, cure record and OEM genealogy on one thread.

  • Prepreg out-time & freezer logs
  • Ply & kit genealogy
  • Layup travellers
  • Cure cycle scheduling

This is your floor. These are the modules on it.

Bird view of a composites manufacturing floorPrepreg Out-Time LogAutomationFreezer Temp ChecksModulePly Kitting & NestingModuleLayup TravellerModuleCure Cycle SchedulingAI agentCure Deviation NCRModuleAutoclave UtilisationReportingConformity CertificatesModule

Where Bulk fits best.

Technician lifting a roll of prepreg out of a walk-in freezer

Prepreg with a running clock

Out-life starts the moment the roll leaves the freezer, no whiteboard maths.

Laminator pressing a ply into a mould by hand

Ply books an OEM will ask for

Every ply and kit ties to its roll; the genealogy assembles as work happens.

Autoclave door open at the end of a cure cycle

Cure cycles that must prove themselves

The autoclave record lands on the part it cured, ready for the auditor.

Technician reading a printed cure chart beside an oven

Whiteboards beside a working ERP

Keep the accounts system; Bulk runs the floor from freezer to certificate.

From freezer to certificate, one thread.

Book the roll out

Scan the roll out of the freezer and its out-time clock starts itself, per roll.

See data thread
Roll out of freezerData thread · Roll R-3318 · today 06:40

Prepreg batch 7741-A · 18 h 20 min out-life remaining

Clock running · 12 min out

Today's reality: built on paper.

Illustration of a composites shop run on paper: out-life whiteboard, freezer log, cure chart and kit tags

  • Out-life on a whiteboard

    Miss the maths and good prepreg is scrapped, or dead material laid up.

  • Genealogy rebuilt by hand

    A day cross-referencing kit tags, travellers and freezer logs per OEM query.

  • Cure records scattered

    Cure charts in a folder by the oven, matched up at audit time.

Cobalt 3D render of a carbon-fibre composite panel with a kit tag

The blocks that hold an out-life.

  • Prepreg out-time & freezer logs

    Freezer in and out timestamped; remaining life counts down live, per roll.

    Data thread

  • Ply & kit genealogy

    Every ply tied to its roll and part, traceable in seconds, not rebuilt.

    Routing

  • Layup travellers

    Ply count, orientation and current method at the bench; each draw records itself.

    Production

  • Cure cycle scheduling

    Plan the autoclave queue against dwell times and give a real cure date.

    Scheduling

  • Cure-deviation NCR & 8D

    A ramp or dwell excursion raises an NCR against that exact part and cycle.

    Quality

  • Conformity certificates

    Builds itself from the roll, ply book and cure record, genealogy attached.

    Documents

The out-life clock runs itself.

−64%Prepreg scrapped on blown out-life at Torridge Composites
0Re-keys between freezer log and layup traveller
100%Ply-to-roll genealogy on shipped parts
“The out-life clock used to live on a whiteboard and in people's heads. We scrapped good prepreg every month to be safe. Now every roll carries its own remaining life from the moment it leaves the freezer, and the ply-to-part trace an OEM asks for is already built.”
TC
Ceri Hughes, Operations ManagerTorridge Composites, AS9100

Questions, answered.

01

Is Bulk a composites ERP or MES?

Neither, and that's deliberate. An ERP wants your whole business re-platformed; a high-volume MES was never built for a paper out-life logbook. Bulk is the operations layer on top of the floor: out-time tracking, ply and kit genealogy, cure records, NCRs, documents and the certificate. Shops that already run an ERP keep it. Most shops our size are replacing whiteboards and spreadsheets, not systems.

02

How does prepreg out-time and out-life tracking work?

Scan a roll out of the freezer and Bulk starts the clock: cumulative room-temperature exposure accrues live, remaining shelf-life counts down, and an alert fires before the roll expires. Book it back in and the clock pauses. The whiteboard and the mental maths go away. Every roll carries its own out-life, per roll, in real time.

03

Can it handle freezer in/out and shelf-life alerts?

Yes. Freezer in/out is timestamped against the roll, so both frozen shelf-life and accumulated out-time are tracked. Pre-use freezer temperature checks live on the same record, and expiry alerts surface before material reaches the bench, so nothing dead gets laid up and nothing good gets scrapped early to be safe.

04

Does it trace ply and kit genealogy back to the roll?

Every kit and every ply is tied to its roll, material batch and the part it goes into, through cutting, layup, cure and inspection to the shipped serial. When an OEM or an AS9100 auditor asks which roll built which part, the answer is a query, not a day of cross-referencing tags and travellers.

05

How long does rollout take for a single-site shop?

One flow end to end first (usually the freezer-to-certificate out-life thread), proven on real rolls in weeks, then the rest of the methods and part families follow on the same pattern. Never a big-bang cutover, and never a stalled floor while it goes in.

06

What does it cost for a shop like ours?

One per-site price with every module included (out-time tracking, genealogy, scheduling, quality, documents), no per-module upsell, with hosting and rollout in the figure. Early-access shops work directly with the build team while we configure it around your materials and cure cycles.

Let's run one roll through.

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