The problem it solves

The admixture business runs on spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads and hope.

A formulation lives in one file, the customer in another, the IS 9103 laboratory results in a third, and the field trial in a photograph on a phone. Every hand-off is a place a number changes — and the chemist who has to sign the release never sees the whole picture at once.

CAMS2 puts the formulation, the customer’s materials, the laboratory bench, the trial, the production batch and the certificate on one record, and closes the loop: every lab result feeds the next prediction, and every prediction ranks the next formulation to test.

How it works

Seven stages, one loop. Insights go back to customer materials, because a formulation is not proven until the field has used it.

Seven stages, one loop

The stages below are the ones the application tracks, each with its own owner, its own clock and its own evidence.

01
Customer materials

The customer’s cement, supplementary materials, aggregates, water and fibres, entered once, with their lots and certificates.
02
Formulation

A versioned recipe with a parent lineage, so a change is a new version rather than an overwritten file.
03
Laboratory

IS 9103 bench testing — setting time, slump flow, Marsh cone and cement-paste flow — with the verdict computed from the registry.
04
Field trials

A trial batch at a customer site, with GPS check-in, a signature, photos and readings captured offline.
05
Production

Batches, weigh sheets, inventory and logistics — first in, first out, with residual shelf life tracked.
06
QC and compliance

Approvals, non-conformances, compliance alerts and the chain of custody behind every released batch.
07
Insights

Compatibility scoring, dose-response curves, early-strength prediction and the model that ranks the next formulation to test.
Loop
And round again

Each cycle tightens the next: a lab result trains the prediction model, a prediction ranks the next formulation, and the next trial proves it.

What is in it

Nine working modules

These are screenshots of the running application. Each one names the screen it came from.

The CAMS2 command center, showing the action center with pending approvals, alerts and the trial pipeline.

The command center

The plant lead’s morning screen: pending approvals, compliance alerts and the trials in flight, in one view.

The CAMS2 dashboard, showing active formulations, total trials, trials this month and the specification pass rate, with a trend of trial outcomes.

The working dashboard

Four headline counts, six chart panels and a specification pass rate — the numbers a chemist is asked for at the start of the day.

The CAMS2 dosage optimisation studio, showing a trial, the target slump, the admixture category and the recommended dosage.

The Dosage Studio

The recommended dose for a trial, with the IS 9103 compliance analysis behind it and the report ready to export.

Field feedback

What was actually dosed on site, against what was recommended, and the slump it achieved — the half of the loop the laboratory never sees.

Aggregate gradation

Blend several aggregate fractions, compare the result against the Fuller and 0.45-power targets, and see where the zone sits.

Mix designs

The IS 10262 concrete mix library, with grade, exposure, water-cement ratio, slump and ingredient quantities, ready to hand to a customer.

Trials

Every trial, with its customer, project, formulation, date and status, filterable by any of them.

A CAMS2 trial open on a phone, showing the project, the date, the grade and the buttons to export a PDF, a client sheet, Markdown, Excel and email.

A trial, on the phone

The field engineer’s view: the trial, its project, its grade, and the export the customer will be sent.

The CAMS2 standards coverage table, listing each standard with its region, its scope and the CAMS modules that cover it.

The standards registry

Every standard the platform can judge a result against, with its region, its scope and the modules that apply it.

Standards coverage

The specifications a manufacturer has to satisfy

The registry holds the published standards and their acceptance limits. A verdict is computed from the registry rather than written into the code, so a limit can be corrected without a redeployment. The notes below say what each standard governs, in our own words.

Standard	What it governs here
IS 9103:1999	The Indian specification for concrete admixtures: the acceptance limits a plasticiser, retarder, accelerator or superplasticiser has to meet.
ASTM C494	The American specification for chemical admixtures, Types A through G, from water-reducing to high-range water-reducing.
EN 934-2	The European standard for concrete admixtures: the performance characteristics and how each is declared.
EN 934-3	The European standard for admixtures for mortar: the properties a dry or tile product must declare.
IS 15477	Adhesives for ceramic tiles and mosaics: the types T1 to T5, their tensile adhesion, open time and slip.
IS 2547	Gypsum building plaster: the properties a plaster product must hold, and the limits on each.
IS 10262:2019	Mix proportioning by the absolute volume method, which is how the platform generates a concrete mix for a customer’s materials.
ACI 211.1-91	The American weight method for proportioning concrete, offered beside the Indian result on the same inputs.
IS 456:2000	Plain and reinforced concrete: the strength and durability rules the concrete made with an admixture still has to meet.
IS 383	Aggregates for concrete: the grading zones and the sieve analysis behind a customer’s aggregate supply.
IS 516	Methods of test for strength of concrete: how the strength specimen behind a trial result is cast, cured and crushed.

The platform

What the screens actually look like

The CAMS2 new trial screen at step two of four, the mix design step, with the control batch, the batch label, the water and the water-cement ratio. — A new trial, step two of four — the control batch, the water and the water-cement ratio.

The CAMS2 trial attachment screen, adding photographs and a video to a trial record. — The evidence on a trial: photographs and video attached to the record itself, not to a phone gallery.

The CAMS2 performance comparison screen, selecting up to five completed trials to compare strength development and workability retention. — Performance comparison — up to five completed trials on the same axes, so a divergence is visible rather than argued about.

The CAMS2 closed loop diagram: formulation repository, internal raw material testing, compatibility insights, and mix design with predictions. — The closed loop — formulation repository, raw material testing, compatibility insights, and mix design with predictions.

The CAMS2 mix design and prediction section, with the early-strength prediction chart and the three mix design engines. — Three mix design engines and one prediction layer — IS 10262 by absolute volume, ACI 211.1 by weight, and DoE/BRE 1988.

The CAMS2 security and compliance section, describing plant-scoped role-based access, secrets held as environment variables and append-only audit logs. — Security and compliance — plant-scoped role-based access, secrets held as environment variables, append-only audit logs.

The CAMS2 frequently asked questions section, headed Before you book a demo. — The questions a manufacturer asks before a demo — answered on the platform’s own page.

Integrations and deployment

Where it runs and who it talks to

Multi-tenant, plant-scoped

One tenant per company. Inside a tenant, access is scoped to the plants the user is assigned to, and the scope is enforced at the API layer.

Roles

Six system roles — super admin, org admin, manager, technologist, sales rep and viewer — plus custom roles with their own permission matrix.

Android app

A native Android application, published as co.concreteinfo.cams2, for the field engineers who do the trials.

Offline capture

Readings, photographs and signatures are captured with no signal and synchronised when there is one.

GPS check-in

A trial records where it was taken, so the trial and the site it claims to be from are the same record.

In-app support

An in-app support assistant that answers from the platform’s own documentation, inside the application.

Messaging

Live chat over a WebSocket, unified conversation threads, and push notifications on the phone.

Customer portal

A portal through which a customer sees their own trials, results and certificates, without a login to the platform itself.

Reporting

PDF and Excel output, safety data sheets, technical data sheets and manufacturer’s test certificates.

Deployment

A ConcreteInfo-hosted multi-tenant service, or a dedicated deployment on your own infrastructure. The same container image runs in both.

Pricing

CAMS2 is a multi-tenant SaaS platform on a per-user subscription model. Pricing is quoted per deployment — the number depends on how many plants, users and modules you run. Ask us for a quote.

Where CAMS2 stands

In active development, in pilot with select manufacturers.

CAMS2 is a multi-tenant SaaS platform on a per-user subscription model — not a custom project. It is not yet open for self-service purchase, because every new tenant is reviewed and approved before access is granted. Pilot engagements are scoped individually: we run a discovery session, configure your plants and materials, and run a first trial cycle with you before any commercial commitment.

Pricing is quoted per deployment — the number depends on how many plants, users and modules you run. Ask us for a quote.

CAMS2 already runs in production with an admixture manufacturer. We can open a demo tenant for you so you can see it with real data on request.

The platform’s own public site is at cams.concreteinfo.cloud.

Questions

Frequently asked

What is CAMS2?

A multi-tenant platform for construction chemical manufacturers: it takes a customer’s materials, formulates against them, tests the result to IS 9103, runs the field trials, tracks the production and the compliance, and feeds every result back into the next formulation.

Who is it for — admixture manufacturers or RMC plants?

Admixture manufacturers. If you produce concrete, the platform you want is CMDApp, which covers the laboratory and the plant instead. The two do different jobs and are deliberately separate products.

How does the standards registry work?

The registry holds the published standards and their acceptance limits as data, keyed to the region and the product family. A verdict is computed from the registry rather than written into the code, so a limit can be corrected without a code change — and the system always tells you which clause a verdict came from.

What does the Dosage Studio do?

It works out the admixture dose for a given trial — the target slump, the admixture category and the cement — runs the IS 9103 compliance analysis against that recommendation, and tells you whether the trial is a valid one. It is the answer to “what dose do I actually use for this customer?”

Can field engineers work offline?

Yes. The trial is captured on the phone with no signal — readings, photographs and the signature — and synchronised when the signal returns. A check-in records where the trial was taken.

Is it available to buy today?

Not as a self-service purchase. Every new tenant is reviewed and approved before access is granted, and the commercial terms are set per deployment. The request is handled as a pilot enquiry, and we answer with a quote.

What happens in a pilot?

A discovery session on your materials and your customers; configuration of your plants, your formulations and your standards; and a first trial cycle run with you — a real trial, from the customer’s cement to the signed result. Nothing is committed commercially until that cycle has been run and you have seen it.

CAMS2

The admixture business runs on spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads and hope.

Seven stages, one loop

Customer materials

Formulation

Laboratory

Field trials

Production

QC and compliance

Insights

And round again