The natural history collections community continues to increase the rate of collection digitization and specimen data mobilization. This increased rate of digitization can be attributed in part to innovative improvements in workflows. However, a common workflow bottleneck often occurs in that period immediately following image capture but preceding image submission to portals, a critical phase involving quality control, file management, image processing, metadata capture, and monitoring of performance. While larger institutions have likely developed reliable, automated workflows, small and medium institutions may not have the expertise or resources to implement workflows that take full advantage of automation opportunities. Without automation, these institutions must invest many hours of manual effort to meet quality and performance goals. To address its own needs, BRIT developed a number of workflow automation components, these coalescing over time into a suite of tools which operate on both an image capture station as a client application and on a server which provides file storage and image processing features. Together, these tools were created to meet the following goals: • Simplify file management and data preservation through automation • Quickly identify quality issues • Quickly capture skeletal metadata to facilitate later databasing • Reduce time between image capture and online availability • Provide performance and quality monitoring and reporting The client and server components together can be considered a “digitization appliance”: software integrated with the specific goal of providing a suite of tools that can be easily deployed on simple hardware to provide a comprehensive set of digitization functions. This presentation will provide an overview of the BRIT digitization appliance and improvements that have been made over the past year. This software is available under an open-source license at https://github.com/BRITorg/digitization_appliance