How your shop puts things right

One early question from shops concerns customer drawings. They are reviewed in scoping, and customer-owned material may stay out.

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Records with a story to tell

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

Nonconformance reports and inspection records
Corrective actions and notes on root causes
Work instructions, routings and setup sheets
Supplier quotes and the threads behind them

The concern: customer drawings

Many jobs run to customer drawings under 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 checked in scoping and can be left out, and customer names in the copy become placeholders. Controlled defense or aerospace work can be flagged and excluded entirely.

Your know-how stays yours

A license covers a copy, not the way you work. Originals never leave your systems, and whatever you regard as core to the shop can be excluded.

What buyers really see

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

First comes an NDA. The de-identified copy comes from License Your Data, passwords are never requested, and nothing goes out until you approve a sample. Any system, folder or customer can be excluded. You pay nothing.

Good to know

Is every system needed?: No. A quality system or a folder of work instructions can be enough to start.
Who needs to take part?: Usually the owner or plant manager, plus whoever runs your ERP and file shares.
Will this disrupt the floor?: No. Nothing moves out of your systems, and production keeps running as it does today.

A typical fit

Machine shops, fabricators and manufacturers of 20 or more full-time staff with 3 or more years of records in email, shared drives, a quality system or an ERP. Smaller shops with a long history may qualify too.

Curious what your records are worth?

Three questions are all it takes. Within minutes, a License Your Data specialist calls to set up a 15-minute call.

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