Sectors / Manufacturing
How your shop really makes things
Routings, quality records, supplier quotes and design changes show how products are made and corrected. That record is what labs want. Customer drawings and controlled work can be left out.
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The records that tend to matter
Which of these go in is your choice. You can always leave any of them out.
Routings and work instructions
How operators set up, run and check every job.
Quotes from suppliers
The way parts get priced, sourced and bargained over.
Design for manufacture records
How a design gets changed so it can actually be built.
Corrective action and quality
How defects get found, traced to a cause and fixed for good.
What manufacturers ask about first: customer drawings
Plenty of shops work from customer drawings under NDA. Material owned by customers is reviewed during scoping and can be left out, and customer names in the copy become placeholders.
Defense or aerospace work can mean some technical data is export controlled. That material can be left out completely. You and your counsel decide whether anything restricted belongs in scope.
How it is handled
An NDA is in place from the start. Any process, product line or folder you see as core can be held back. Nothing goes out until you approve a sample, and your originals remain in your ERP and file shares.
Two common questions
Do we have to include CAD files?
No. On their own, routings, quality records and supplier email can be enough.
Will this affect the shop floor?
No. Your team keeps running the same systems, and nobody asks for a password.