Questions from manufacturers
Do we lose ownership of anything?
No. Your originals remain in your systems and stay yours.
Are supplier names kept?
Supplier, customer and staff names all become placeholders.
Do drawings have to be part of it?
No. Quality, routing and supplier records are often enough, and drawings can stay out.
Building to a customer's drawings
When you make parts to customer drawings under NDA, whether they can be included depends on your contracts. Check with your own counsel. Customer owned material can stay out completely.
Processes you see as core
What you license is a de-identified copy, not your know-how. Any process, product line or time period you want to protect can be held back.
Ground rules that never change
Everything starts under NDA. Nothing is sent until you approve a sample, and it costs you nothing.
Records worth a look
Where the useful history sits
Not every one is required. One well kept system can be enough to begin.
Quality and corrective actions
How defects are traced back to a root cause and fixed for good.
Work instructions and routings
How every job is set up, run and inspected.
RFQs and supplier quotes
How parts are sourced and negotiated.
Production records
How output, scrap and lead times shift over time.
Why it matters
Why labs want this
How a shop turns a quote into a shipped part, including the defects and fixes along the way, is hard won knowledge. Production support models learn from these records, and they almost never appear in public.
Next steps
Your next steps
Answer four questions to get an estimate. Within minutes, a License Your Data specialist calls to set up a 15-minute call. Should you go ahead, License Your Data makes a de-identified copy, you sign off on a sample, and buyers license it.