Questions from engineering firms
Does anyone get into our PDM system?
No. No one asks for passwords or logins, and your originals remain in your systems.
Could we exclude one product line?
Yes. Any project, product line, client or period can stay out.
Do you need native CAD, or are PDFs enough?
It depends on what buyers want. The 15-minute call is where formats and systems are discussed.
Records to look at
Where the valuable history lives
You do not need every one. One well kept system can be enough to begin.
Models and CAD files
How parts and assemblies get modeled, toleranced and revised.
Calculations and BOMs
How engineers size parts, pick materials and check margins.
Review records
What was argued, what was settled and the reasons why.
Inspection and test results
How expected performance matched up with results on the bench.
Designs under client NDA
Much of an engineering firm's work belongs to clients or is under NDA. Whether any of that can be included depends on your contracts, so ask your own counsel. Material owned by clients can stay out.
Controlled technical data
Work for defense, aerospace and certain other programs may be export controlled. It is flagged in scoping and can be excluded entirely.
Ground rules that never change
An NDA comes before anything else. There is no cost to you, and nothing goes out until you sign off on a sample.
Why it matters
Why labs want this
Engineering models need to see reasoning, not just finished drawings: why a tolerance changed, which load case drove a decision, what the test bench showed. Design reviews and calculation files capture that in a way public sources do not.
How it runs
What happens from here
Answer four questions to get an estimate. A specialist from License Your Data phones within minutes to book a 15-minute call. If you continue, License Your Data prepares a de-identified copy, you approve a sample, and buyers license the copy.