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JACQUARD: the assembly floor

Four tasks

JACQUARD · for the floor. The same blueprint and the same jigs, so a part made at one hub fits at another.

Each build would be written down once as a versioned blueprint: the BOM, a fixed sequence of steps, and the jig and test each step uses. A revision would reach every hub that runs it. Lines would be set up from the blueprint before the parts arrive, from demand already reserved, and taken down when it drops. Jigs are the one thing Moduloa is designed to make itself, to one standard, so every hub on a blueprint revision would use identical ones. Humanoid assembly is the design target, not a condition for the first line.

Why the name. Jacquard's device, patented in 1804, read the pattern from a chain of punched cards, so the same cards wove the same design on every loom fitted with the device.

Why it matters. A product that comes out the same at any hub is what makes routing, second sources and reorders possible. Without it, every move is a new industrialization. The floor is also what a hub is certified on.

The shadow system it is designed to replace. Side trackers, text messages and paper travellers, and know-how that lives only in the heads of the people on the line. In the design, a line would run only from the released blueprint, and a rework, removal or deviation would be recorded against its revision before the work starts, at the station where it happens.

Research behind it, strong. The new job is the real test · The interface is being written now · The robot was never the expensive part · The hand is the bottleneck · Learning Many notes, on robots and on moving a proven process, and three pages written. The jigs and the floor's own record discipline are still thin.

On the site: The blueprint · Industrialization · Execution · The hub scorecard

Stage 0 · nothing is built · four open tasks · reviewed 5 October 2026

Inside it

What it is made of

The pieces of the work that live in JACQUARD. Each is written as designed: none of it runs yet.

Hub certification by domain and size

What a floor must show before it runs blueprints (J-01).

Hubs would be certified by Moduloa by domain, such as medical or automotive, and by size class, on top of the certificates each domain already requires, which are issued site by site. Moduloa's certification would be its own mark, built on what the factory OS records and read by routing as a living score. It would not replace IATF 16949 or ISO 13485, and it is not an accredited certification. No hub is certified, and the domains and size classes are not defined yet.

It borrows PYX's method (evidence on top of ISO, checked again, lost and regained), and WAYBILL reads it before it compares cost.

On the site: The hub scorecard · The route

Sources IATF Rules, 6th edition, certification body Q&A · ISO 13485:2016, catalogue entry

Portability of a qualified process

The transfer protocol (J-03), the nearer test behind claim P-27.

Today a qualification belongs to a process at a place: automotive's production part approval process (PPAP) is run again when the manufacturing location changes, and a certified site that relocates is audited again from a readiness review onward. Moving a qualified product takes a year or more for automotive-grade electronics, and is fast only where the new site runs the identical process. Whether a qualified process can move between cells owned by different companies is claim P-27, due 30 June 2027 and open; P-10 carries the commercial version to 2036.

On the site: How long a move takes today · The blueprint, made real

Sources IATF Rules, 6th edition, certification body Q&A, section 5.15 · Intel, Copy EXACTLY!

Machine and robot interfaces

How a blueprint's robot tasks reach a machine (J-04).

A blueprint would carry robot tasks the OS can hand to any capable machine, and part of the interface already exists. VDA 5050, at version 3.0 since April 2026, lets one fleet controller command mobile robots from different makers, including robots with load handling or manipulation, over MQTT and JSON, with a factsheet in which each machine declares what it can do. It leaves out safety, traffic logic and links to business systems, and the word humanoid does not appear in it. No published interface describes a humanoid's work as tasks with tools, tolerances and results, so Moduloa would write a humanoid profile of an existing interface rather than invent one.

The other side of the same seam, the customer's ERP, is TOUCHMARK's.

On the site: The interface is being written now

Sources VDA 5050, version 3.0 · VDA, press release, April 2026 · OPC Foundation, OPC UA · ros2_control

The work

Tasks

Several people can work on the same task, each with its own deliverable. Ask to commit with the link on a task: name what you will deliver and a date no more than three months after it is accepted.

J-01Open

Hub criteria by domain and size

Done when
The domains and size classes a hub could be certified for are listed, each with the evidence it needs on top of the certificates the domain already requires, how it is lost and regained, and what it adds to the hub scorecard. One term is chosen where the site says both size class and certification tier.
Effort
Two to three weeks, part time
Stage 0 plan
On the timeline as “Candidate hub criteria”

Ask to commit to J-01 →

J-02Open

Tooling standard v0.1 and the EX-100 jig set

Done when
A dimensioned drawing and a one-page specification define the standard base and frame interface every jig mounts to, and the EX-100 flashing, positioning and transport jigs are specified to it, ready to make, each with a datasheet carrying its id, revision, calibration interval and the blueprint revision it derives from.
Effort
Four to six weeks, part time
Stage 0 plan
On the timeline as “Tooling standard v0.1: modular-cell fixture interfaces”

Ask to commit to J-02 →

J-04Open

Robot task interface

Done when
A gap map shows what VDA 5050 version 3.0 covers for a manipulation task and what a humanoid profile would have to add, and the EX-100 seal and lid step on the execution page is written as one robot task with its tool, torque, tolerance and expected result.
Effort
Three to four weeks, part time
Stage 0 plan
On the timeline as “Robot task library”

Ask to commit to J-04 →

The honest limits

What is open, and what would prove it

  • Who builds the jigs is stated two ways: centrally by Moduloa, or as a core capability of every hub.
  • The journey says Moduloa makes no machined parts or boards, while the EX-100 plan marks its housing and harness as made. EX-100 is being reconciled (F-03).
  • Size class and certification tier name the same thing in two places. J-01 chooses one term.
  • Nobody has shown a qualified process moving between two companies' cells. That is claim P-27, open until 30 June 2027.
  • No humanoid interface exists yet, so humanoid assembly stays a design target.

On the register

  • P-27 · due 30 June 2027 · open · a certified process moves between two organizations' robot cells
  • P-10 · due 31 December 2036 · open · validated blueprints move between certified factories, and it pays
  • P-13 · due 31 December 2036 · open · toolmaking is recognized as a Norwegian gap and rebuilt
  • P-24 · due 31 December 2036 · open · existing factories are converted into hubs running portable blueprints
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Reviewed 5 October 2026 · next review by 2 November 2026 · Questions go to seat 001, the founder · Corrections welcome
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