The record of how your shop solves problems

Customer drawings are usually the first question from manufacturers. Scoping covers customer-owned material, and it can be excluded.

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Where the value tends to be

Years of running a shop leave a deep history of how parts get built and problems get fixed:

Work instructions, routings and setup notes
Corrective actions, inspection records and nonconformance reports
Supplier quotes along with the conversations around them
Production and stock history held in your ERP or MES

The first worry: customer drawings

A lot of shops work from customer drawings covered by NDA. Whether they can be included comes down to your contracts, and your own counsel should answer that. Customer-owned material gets reviewed in scoping and can be kept out, and placeholders replace every customer name in the copy. Anything under defense or aerospace controls can be flagged and kept out altogether.

You keep your process

You license a copy, not your know-how. Your originals sit unchanged in your systems, and your people keep using them. If a process, product line or period is too close to the core of your business, leave it out.

Questions owners in this field ask

Do we have to include every system?: No. A well kept quality system or a folder of work instructions can be enough to start.
Who on our side should be involved?: Most often the plant manager or owner, the administrator of your ERP and file shares, and the person in charge of customer contracts.
Will this disrupt production?: No. Your floor keeps using the same systems, and the originals never move.

How the copy is prepared and reviewed

It all begins under NDA. License Your Data, our licensing partner, makes a de-identified copy where customers, suppliers and staff become placeholders. No passwords are ever asked for or shared. Any system, folder or customer can be excluded, and a sample comes to you for approval before anything goes out. You pay nothing.

Who tends to qualify

Manufacturers that fit tend to have 20 or more full-time staff and 3 or more years of records across email, shared drives, a quality system or an ERP. Smaller shops with a long, well documented history may also qualify. The estimate is the same whatever you make.

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