How your shop fixes what goes wrong

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

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Records that tell the story

Whenever a part drifted out of spec and was brought back, it 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 question of customer drawings

Many jobs run to customer drawings under 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 reviewed in scoping and may stay out, with customer names in the copy swapped for placeholders. Controlled defense or aerospace work can be flagged and excluded entirely.

Your know-how remains yours

What you license is a copy, never your methods. Your original records stay in your systems, and anything you see as core to the shop can stay out.

What a buyer is shown

Imagine parts drifting out of tolerance during second shift. It is caught at inspection, a nonconformance report goes in, tool wear on a single machine proves to be the cause, and a revised tool-change interval brings parts back to spec. The buyer sees that path from symptom to fix, with placeholders for customers, suppliers and staff.

Making the copy

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. You exclude any system, folder or customer you choose. There is no cost to you.

Worth knowing

Do we have to include every system?: No. To begin, a quality system or one folder of work instructions may be enough.
Who needs to take part?: Usually the owner or plant manager, plus whoever runs your ERP and file shares.
Will the floor be disrupted?: No. Your systems keep everything, and production carries on as usual.

Who tends to qualify

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 may also qualify if their history goes back years.

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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