Every tool free right now. Calculators and references for specifying and planning glass, plus the QC tools that turn every tempering and IGU check into a signed, account-bound record. All of it laid out by where it lands on the line.
From the spec sheet to the shipping rack. Everything is free right now, from the quick calculators up front to the QC tools that produce signed, account-bound records at each station.
Before a sheet is cut, get the glass, the numbers, and the order right.
Answer a few questions about the project and get a code-compliant glass spec with real performance values.
Compare two glass specs and estimate the annual heating and cooling cost difference by climate zone.
Searchable center-of-glass specs across Vitro, Guardian, Cardinal, Pilkington, AGC, and Saint-Gobain.
Dead load for monolithic, laminated, and IGU makeups, including interlayer, spacer, and sealant.
Give it any two of glass, spacer, or overall unit thickness and it solves the third, with ASTM C1036 tolerances.
Thickness (mm, inch, fraction), area, weight, surface stress (MPa/psi), U-value, R-value, conductivity and temperature. Metric and imperial, live both ways.
Will the glass sweat? From room temperature and humidity, outdoor temperature and U-value it finds the dew point, the glass surface temperature, and the safe humidity limit.
Nest the cut list, squeeze the yield, and cost the offcut before the wheel touches glass.
Fragmentation, surface compression, bow, and roller wave, graded against ASTM C1048 and ANSI Z97.1.
Your whole tempering line in one signed shift report, every check graded the moment you enter it. Free to fill in, save, and print, like everything else right now.
Class A particle-weight calculator: enter sample size and combined fragment weight for a scaled pass/fail.
Spacer, desiccant, seal, and gas fill, checked against ASTM E2190.
Diagnose and grade any defect against the standard before it reaches the customer.
The cross-cutting layer that ties every station together, root cause, corrective action, and continuous improvement.
Log an NCR, run a guided 5 Whys and live fishbone, assign CAPA, and track it to closure.
OEE from one shift of numbers, plus a scored 5S audit with radar and trend.
First pass yield, problem resolution cycle time, field NCRs and more, against your own targets. Monthly, quarterly, or yearly reports you can export to PDF, a slide, or CSV.
Tools fix symptoms; systems prevent them. These are plain-English playbooks on the methods that separate a shop that fights fires from one that runs clean, written for the glass industry, not borrowed from a generic manufacturing textbook. Free to read, and each one links to the tool that puts it to work.
Where time, glass, and money leak on a typical glass line, and the flow and pull ideas that plug them, mapped to real shop examples.
Read the guideSort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, with what each looks like at a cutting table, a tempering oven, and an IGU line.
Read the guideHow to run a 5 Whys and a fishbone that find the real cause instead of blaming the operator, and how to verify the fix actually held.
Read the guideWhat a quality management system really is, and how ISO 9001 is structured (PDCA, the process approach, the clauses that matter) without drowning a small shop in paperwork.
Read the guidePolicy, procedure, and work instruction, the difference between them, and how to write one people actually follow instead of shelve.
Read the guideThe ASTM and ANSI clauses your QC actually depends on (C1036, C1048, E2190, Z97.1), explained against the station where they bite.
Read the guideThe value is not a form you download once. It is the working tool and the record it produces, every check stamped with who did it, when, and the result, and kept against your account so it builds into an audit trail you own.
Tools output a finished record with your job number, operator, measurements, and result, not an empty template.
Sign in and every job, log, and RCA is kept against your account and follows you across devices.
Pull months of QC history for an ISO surveillance audit or a customer quality review without digging through binders.
Tools track the standards as they change, so a check today reflects today's requirements, not a printout from three years ago.
Join the fabricators using LiteSpec Pro to cut scrap, kill rework, and walk into audits with the records already done.
Explore toolsLiteSpec for Manufacturers is decision-support and record-keeping software. Tool outputs are based on the ASTM, ANSI, NFRC, and ISO references cited on each tool and on the inputs you provide; they do not replace your own qualified inspection, your customer's specification, or a licensed engineer's judgment. Always verify against the governing standard and project documents before releasing product.