How your shop works through problems

Customer drawings are usually the first question from manufacturers. Anything owned by customers is reviewed in scoping and can stay out.

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What is usually valuable

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

Routings, setup notes and work instructions
Nonconformance reports, inspection records and corrective actions
Supplier quotes along with the conversations around them
Production and inventory history from your ERP or MES

The first worry: customer drawings

A lot of shops work from customer drawings covered by NDA. Your contracts decide whether those can go in, which is a matter for your own counsel. Customer-owned material gets reviewed in scoping and can be kept out, and placeholders replace every customer name in the copy. Controlled aerospace or defense work can be marked and excluded completely.

Your process remains yours

A license covers a copy, never your know-how. Original records stay untouched in your systems, and your team carries on working in them. If a process, product line or period is too close to the core of your business, leave it out.

What accounting owners ask

Do we have to include every system?: No. To start, one folder of work instructions or a well kept quality system can be sufficient.
Who on our team needs to 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.

The usual fit

A typical fit is a manufacturer with 20 or more full-time staff and 3 or more years of records in an ERP, a quality system, shared drives or email. Smaller shops with a long, well documented history may also qualify. What you make does not change the estimate.

Making and checking the copy

The first step is an NDA. License Your Data, our licensing partner, prepares a de-identified copy in which customers, suppliers and staff are replaced with placeholders. Nobody asks for a password, and none is shared. Any system, folder or customer can be excluded, and a sample comes to you for approval before anything goes out. You pay nothing.

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