Stop losing prep work in notebooks and shared drives.
Materials Prep is the ELN built for metallography labs — a single home for samples, prep recipes, micrographs, etchants, and the studies that tie them together.
Built around how a metallography lab actually works.
Generic ELNs make you bend your workflow to fit their forms. This one starts from the sample and the prep, the way you already think about the work.
A prep journal for every sample
Mounting, grinding, polishing, etching — recorded as it happens. Notes, photos, and recipe runs all live on the sample, not in a notebook on someone's bench.
Recipes your lab actually follows
Capture the prep recipes your lab has tuned over the years — by alloy, by hardness, by mount type — and apply them to a sample in one tap. Every run is logged.
The etchants you use, on hand
A working catalog of etchants — composition, target alloys, safety notes — so the technician at the bench can pick the right one without paging through Vander Voort.
An atlas of your microstructures
Every micrograph you take is searchable by alloy, condition, and etchant. Build a reference your team can actually use, instead of folders of unlabeled images.
Studies that group the work
When a job spans dozens of samples — failure analysis, qualification, R&D — group them into a study and compare prep, hardness, and microstructure side by side.