Engineering and product design
Why a design moved on is written in your engineering files
CAD, BOMs, test results and design reviews, with client designs and controlled data reviewed first.
Start my estimateWhere the value comes from
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.
Beyond the change itself, your reviews, tests and revisions capture the reasoning that drove it.
What usually counts
- CAD files and revisions. The modeling and tolerancing of parts and assemblies.
- BOMs and calculation sheets. How parts get sized and materials picked.
- Test and simulation results. Measured outcomes set beside predictions.
- Design review notes. Points of debate and how each was settled.
What owners ask first: what about 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. Material your clients own is checked as scope is set, and it can be excluded.
Export-controlled technical data from any defense or aerospace program is flagged and kept out.
Your options to hold back
- 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. Hold back any project or period.
The process in brief
After you send the estimate form, a License Your Data specialist calls within minutes and books a 15-minute call under NDA. License Your Data next makes a de-identified copy of your in-scope records. First you approve a sample. After that, buyers can license the copy.
Questions from owners
- Does someone need a login to our PDM vault?
- No. No passwords are asked for or shared.
- Do we need to get files ready?
- No. Knowing your team's tools and roughly how long you have used them is enough. You will not be asked for an export.
- Is there a fee?
- No. You are not charged anything.
- Do we still own our IP?
- Yes. Your originals never leave your systems and remain yours. Buyers license only a de-identified copy.