Clays and deliveries
Each clay type with its maker and temperature range, and every delivery you buy on its own: supplier, purchase date, batch from the bag and the linked cost.
The Ceramics module is coming soon. We describe it as we are designing it today with the first studios, and it may change before launch. Would you like to shape it with us? Write to us.
What we are preparing
Everything a potter
needs to record.
One module whose records link together: a clay delivery leads to a test, a test to a firing and a firing to the piece a customer ordered.
Glazes and recipes
Bought glazes and your own recipes with their composition and versions. A mixed batch remembers which materials and batches it came from.
Certificates and documents
Attach a certificate, a data sheet or a supplier declaration to a material and a delivery, for example on food contact.
Glaze tests
A sample card with a code: clay, glazes in the order applied, layers, temperature and curve. The test plan kept apart from what you actually saw.
Results and photos
Colour, surface, defects and notes for every firing of a sample, with photos before and after the kiln.
Curves and the firing log
A library of proven curves and a record of every firing: kiln, bisque or glaze firing, curve, temperature reached and what was in the kiln.
Prototypes
From an idea through trial pieces to a product in the Catalogue, including what went wrong and what to change next time.
Search
Find, for example, blue combinations for 1,200 °C, and tell proven results from tests you are only planning.
Traceability
For a mug from an order, find its batch, the clay and glaze with their batches and every firing it went through. Export the log whenever you need it.
How it will work
From a bag of clay
to a finished piece.
Records grow as you work, not in the evening after. Each step builds on the one before, so the chain stays complete.
- 1
Record the material
When you buy clay or glaze, record the delivery with its batch and attach the receipt and certificate. An unknown batch is marked as not known.
- 2
Test
Give the sample a code, record the clay, glazes and layers and plan it into a firing.
- 3
Fire
In the firing log, choose a curve and add the pieces, batches and tests going into the kiln. Editing a curve later never changes past firings.
- 4
Review and trace
After the firing, add the result and photos. A failed attempt stays on record with advice for the next one.
The records help you keep documents and methods together, also for an inspection. Assessing whether materials and products comply with regulations remains with the maker and suppliers; smallbuss does not replace it.
Connections
Who rides the same route.
Modules complement each other. With both switched on, links between them appear; switching a module off never deletes its data.
Shape the Ceramics module with us.
We are looking for studios that want to keep a proper log. Tell us what you record today and what you are missing.