JetSoft announces breakthrough offline AI agent for waste reduction and quality control
13/07/2026
JetSoft has announced the launch of ARQ, a pioneering offline artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to transform how organisations explore, understand and act on their inspection and manufacturing data. The new digital product will be showcased at Materials Testing 2026, where JetSoft will present its growing suite of inspection software solutions to professionals across quality assurance, materials testing, condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering.
ARQ represents a significant step forward in accessible, intelligent data interaction for the inspection community. Built directly into JetSoft’s flagship OverSeer platform, the agent enables users to engage conversationally with complex datasets, uncover patterns, test hypotheses and accelerate decision-making without requiring specialist knowledge in data science or query languages.
The new digital product will be formally showcased at Materials Testing 2026 in September 2026. As part of the launch, JetSoft’s CEO Tom Martin will deliver a featured presentation on ‘NDE4.0: The Key to Right-First-Time’, exploring how ARQ supports modern manufacturing strategies and strengthens digital transformation across the non-destructive testing (NDT) sector.
ARQ enables operators, engineers and analysts to explore the full breadth of data stored within OverSeer. By combining inspection, manufacturing and component data in a single environment, ARQ delivers powerful analytical capabilities that help identify the root causes of defects, process variation and material waste.
This integrated approach provides deeper operational insight, supporting data-driven decisions that improve quality, efficiency and yield.
Through natural language interaction, users can identify trends, anomalies and emerging issues, generate and refine hypotheses, query datasets without writing code, compare inspection methods or material behaviours, examine defect patterns and potential root causes and build iterative analyses that evolve with each question.
This conversational approach dramatically reduces the time traditionally spent preparing spreadsheets, cleaning data or navigating complex interfaces. Instead, users can begin exploring immediately, accelerating both understanding and action.
Beyond exploration, ARQ acts as an intelligent advisor throughout the analytical process. The agent can recommend relevant datasets, highlight relationships between variables and provide step-by-step guidance aligned with an organisation’s internal conduct manual. This ensures that users not only access powerful analytical capabilities but also follow consistent, validated procedures.
The AI assistant can respond to process issues or quality events in real time, helping teams understand what has changed, why it matters and what actions may be most effective. This capability supports faster resolution of manufacturing challenges and strengthens continuous improvement programmes.
JetSoft developed ARQ to address several persistent challenges in modern manufacturing and inspection environments, particularly the need to make better use of the vast volumes of data generated across Inspection workflows.
By enabling deeper, more intuitive engagement with this information, ARQ delivers tangible benefits: improved right-first-time performance through clearer understanding of defect causes; reduced waste and rework via targeted process improvements; lower variable manufacturing costs supported by more informed routing and disposition decisions; enhanced yield through virtual assessment and intelligent decision support and greater operational efficiency enabled by automation, simplification, and rapid insight generation.
These outcomes contribute to a more resilient digital infrastructure, where continuous improvement becomes faster, more iterative and more effective.
A defining feature of ARQ is its ability to operate fully offline. Sensitive inspection and manufacturing data remain securely within an organisation’s environment, making ARQ suitable for industries with strict data governance requirements, including aerospace, defence, energy and advanced manufacturing.
By embedding AI capability directly into OverSeer, JetSoft provides a practical, secure and highly scalable solution that aligns with the realities of industrial digitalisation.
ARQ offers the power of modern AI without compromising data security, compliance or operational integrity.
JetSoft will present ARQ alongside its wider suite of NDT software, including OverSeer, WorkStream and IRM, at Materials Testing 2026. Visitors will be able to see live demonstrations of ARQ interacting with real inspection datasets, showcasing how conversational analysis can reshape the way organisations understand and act on their quality information.
JetSoft’s CEO, Tom Martin, will also be speaking at the event, sharing insights on NDE4.0, digital transformation, and how tools like ARQ can help organisations achieve right-first-time manufacturing through smarter, more connected data practices.
