What is Hybrid Automation?
The optimal balance between human control and automatic dosing — without expensive sensors in the coolant, without maintenance contracts, without failure risk.
Robust and Economical Coolant Automation
DOSIMETRIX® combines reliable measurement data acquisition with automatic refilling and precise concentration control. The critical measurement is performed in a controlled manner with a digital handheld device, while the eMix system automatically calculates the correct refill concentration, performs dosing and fills the CNC tanks.
This automates exactly the part that causes the most effort in daily coolant maintenance: the correct top-up with the right concentration. The measurement itself remains simple, fast and transparent. The operator can assess the condition of the coolant directly at the CNC tank and immediately recognize anomalies such as contamination, tramp oil or foaming.
Measured values are automatically transferred to the eMix system. This eliminates reading errors, typing errors and incorrect entries. On this basis, DOSIMETRIX® reliably controls re-dosing and ensures stable coolant concentrations in real manufacturing operations.
DOSIMETRIX® is thus a proven, robust and economical method to implement coolant automation simply and reliably. Maintenance effort remains minimal since no sensors permanently immersed in the coolant need to be cleaned, monitored or regularly recalibrated.
With fully automatic systems with sensors permanently installed in the coolant, this can become a problem: particles, tramp oils, additives and residues can coat sensor surfaces. When measurement values drift as a result, concentration control also works on the basis of incorrect data. In practice, this can lead to incorrect dosing, additional manual sensor cleaning and higher maintenance costs.
The result: reliable measurements, stable coolant concentrations, minimal maintenance costs and an economical automation that works in everyday industrial operations.
Reliable Control
Controlled measurement with digital handheld device. Only reliable measurements feed into re-dosing and concentration control.
Minimal Maintenance
No sensors permanently stressed by the coolant. Less cleaning, less calibration, less service effort.
Economical Automation
Automatic measurement transfer, intelligent re-dosing and stable concentrations — simple, robust and economical.
How DOSIMETRIX® hybrid works
The human measures — the machine doses. Simple, precise, without sensor in the coolant.
Measure
The operator measures the coolant concentration 2× per week with the digital hand refractometer — directly at the machine, with a single button press.
Record
The measurement value is automatically saved and evaluated in the FLUIDAS analysis portal. Limit values, trends and alarms are immediately visible.
Dose
The eMix1500 doses and fills the tank fully automatically to the setpoint. No manual refilling, no guessing, no wear from under- or over-concentration.
Document
Every measurement, every dosing, every deviation — completely logged. Compliance and audit evidence is retrievable at any time.
No Internet Connection Required
DOSIMETRIX® hybrid works completely offline. The FLUIDAS analysis portal is optional — additionally available for operations with cloud connectivity.
AI that understands — not just monitors
Many systems carry an AI label today. Behind it is usually just threshold monitoring: value too high or too low — alarm. DOSIMETRIX® hybrid can optionally run with real AI that recognises patterns and controls predictively, before concentration drifts out of range.
- ·Recognises how production and CNC machines are utilised
- ·Factors in environmental variables like hall temperature — and even weather data
- ·Learns the typical machining processes of a machine over time
- ·Corrects concentration control predictively instead of reactively
Summer heat in the workshop
In summer, hall temperatures rise — and with evaporation, the coolant concentration in the tanks. The AI recognises this pattern, factors in weather data and adjusts control before the concentration gets too high.
Changing contract manufacturing
In contract manufacturing, different processes run constantly. Over time the AI learns which operations a machine runs and controls refilling to match real consumption.
Real AI instead of an AI label
Pure threshold monitoring
Reacts only once the value has already drifted. It corrects symptoms — always one step too late.
DOSIMETRIX® AI
Recognises the pattern beforehand and corrects predictively. It prevents the deviation instead of chasing it.
Predictive, pattern-based concentration control in this form is offered by no other coolant system.
Optional, not mandatory: your hybrid system also runs reliably without AI. The AI is the icing on the cake — switch it on when you want it.
Measurable ROI in real manufacturing
fewer maintenance cycles — 8 years in the field at GEA Refrigeration Berlin (8 CNC centres, 8 × 1,000 L)
typically less coolant consumption
coolant savings possible in the best case
Documented by 8 years of field use at GEA Refrigeration Berlin. View success story →
Consumption figures (20–70%) are typical empirical values and vary depending on application, machine and initial condition.
DPMA-protected hybrid measuring and dosing logic
The hybrid measuring and dosing logic of DOSIMETRIX® is jointly registered by Brisco Systems and GIMAT as a utility model at the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). 1:1 reproductions are excluded.
The only ATAGO Service Center in Germany — and Central Europe
GIMAT GmbH is the only authorised ATAGO Service Center in Germany — and simultaneously the only ATAGO Service Center in Central Europe. Sales, calibration and service of PAL refractometers directly from the manufacturer partner.
Hybrid Automation vs. Full Automation
| Criterion | Full Automation | Hybrid Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Sensor in coolant | Yes — contaminates, drifts, must be replaced | No — measurement outside the medium |
| Maintenance effort | High — regular calibration, cleaning, spare parts | Minimal — digital refractometer, robust and durable |
| Failure risk | High — sensor in process, measurement drift possible unnoticed | Low — operator recognizes anomalies immediately |
| Installation time | Several hours to days — sensor integration, calibration, commissioning | Initial 2 hours + 30 min per tank — plug & play, no modification |
| Investment costs | Very high — sensors, controls, integration | Low — fast ROI, usually under 12 months |
| Internet connection needed | Often yes — cloud platform, remote service | No — fully offline capable |
More on the concept: Hybride Automatisierung (Wikipedia)
DOSIMETRIX® hybrid in direct comparison
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Installed in hours. Amortized in months. No sensor in the coolant.