Engineering and product design
Engineering records show why a design changed
Test results, BOMs, CAD and review notes, after a first check of client designs and controlled data.
Start my estimateWhy engineering records matter
Principles are covered in textbooks. The path a real team takes from requirement to released drawing, failed test and fixing review included, almost never is.
Your design reviews, test reports and revision history show the reasoning behind each change, not only the change.
What usually counts
- CAD files and revisions. The modeling and tolerancing of parts and assemblies.
- BOMs and calculation sheets. The math behind sizes and the materials chosen.
- Test and simulation results. Predicted against measured.
- Design review notes. What was debated and decided.
The worry owners raise first: client work under NDA
Much engineering work belongs to clients or sits under NDA. Your contracts decide whether any of it fits in scope, and reading them is for your counsel. Legal advice is outside what we do. Client-owned material is reviewed when the scope is set and can stay out.
Where your work involves aerospace or defense programs, export-controlled technical data is flagged and removed.
What can stay out
- Client-owned designs. Left out by default, unless you and your counsel decide to include them.
- Export-controlled data. Flagged, then removed.
- Product lines you treat as core. Exclude any project or time period.
The process in brief
Complete the estimate form and, within minutes, a specialist from License Your Data rings to set a 15-minute call under NDA. License Your Data then prepares a de-identified copy of what you put in scope. You approve a sample, and only after that do buyers license the copy.
Owners often ask
- Will anyone access our PDM vault?
- No. Nobody asks for or receives a password.
- Is there anything to prepare?
- No. Knowing your team's tools and roughly how long you have used them is enough. You will not be asked for an export.
- Do we still own our IP?
- Yes. Your originals never leave your systems and remain yours. Buyers license only a de-identified copy.
- What does it cost?
- No. You are not charged anything.