The way your floor solves problems

One early question from shops concerns customer drawings. Scoping checks them, and anything customer-owned can be left out.

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Where the story lives

Every part that drifted out of tolerance and came back in spec left a trail:

Inspection data and nonconformance reports
Root cause findings and the corrective actions taken
Setup sheets, routings and instructions for each job
Supplier quotes along with their email threads

The worry: customer drawings

Plenty of jobs are built to customer drawings under an NDA. Whether any of them may be included comes down to your contracts and your own counsel, and we offer no legal advice. Customer-owned material is reviewed in scoping and may stay out, with customer names in the copy swapped for placeholders. Controlled aerospace or defense work can be marked and kept out altogether.

Your know-how stays yours

What you license is a copy, never your methods. Originals never leave your systems, and whatever you regard as core to the shop can be excluded.

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. The buyer sees that path from symptom to fix, with placeholders for customers, suppliers and staff.

How the copy is made

First comes an NDA. License Your Data prepares the de-identified copy, nobody asks for a password, and you approve a sample before anything goes out. Any system, folder or customer can be excluded. You pay nothing.

Who tends to qualify

Fabricators, machine shops and manufacturers 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 may also qualify if their history goes back years.

Worth knowing

Do we have to include every system?: No. A quality system or a folder of work instructions can be enough to 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 this disrupt the floor?: No. Nothing leaves your systems, and the floor keeps running exactly as it does now.

Wondering what your files could be worth?

Answer three questions. License Your Data has a specialist phone you within minutes to arrange a 15-minute call.

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