The way your floor solves problems

Shops ask early about the drawings their customers send them. Those are checked in scoping, and customer-owned material can stay out.

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Where the story lives

Whenever a part drifted out of spec and was brought back, it left a trail:

Nonconformance reports and inspection records
Root cause findings and the corrective actions taken
Work instructions, routings and setup sheets
Quotes from suppliers and the conversations behind them

The concern: customer drawings

A lot of work runs to customer drawings covered by NDA. Your contracts decide whether any can go in, which your own counsel should judge; legal advice is not something we give. Customer-owned material is checked in scoping and can be left out, and customer names in the copy become placeholders. Controlled aerospace or defense work can be marked and kept out altogether.

Your know-how remains yours

What you license is a copy, never your methods. Your original files stay put, and you may keep out anything central to how the shop works.

What a buyer is shown

Picture parts drifting out of tolerance on second shift. Inspection spots it, a nonconformance report opens, worn tooling on one machine turns out to be the cause, and a new tool-change interval puts the parts back in spec. A buyer sees that trail from symptom to fix, with customers, suppliers and staff replaced by placeholders.

How the copy is made

An NDA comes first. License Your Data makes the de-identified copy, no one asks for a password, and a sample comes to you for approval first. Leave out whatever system, folder or customer you want. It costs you nothing.

Who tends to qualify

Manufacturers, fabricators and machine shops that have 20 or more full-time staff and hold 3 or more years of records in an ERP, quality system, email or shared drives. Smaller shops may also qualify if their history goes back years.

Worth knowing

Do we have to include every system?: No. A folder of work instructions, or your quality system, can be a good start.
Who should be on the call?: Most often the plant manager or owner, plus the person who manages file shares and your ERP.
Will the floor be disrupted?: No. Your systems keep everything, and production carries on as usual.

Curious what your records are worth?

Three questions are all it takes. License Your Data has a specialist phone you within minutes to arrange a 15-minute call.

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