Share Data Online And Protect It

By DE Editors

MfgQuote.com (Atlanta, GA), the online marketplace for sourcing andselling manufacturing services, has released a free utility thatprotects your intellectual property when you source online forengineered-to-order components: The software automatically destroys thefile after your recipient reviews them. The software, called MfgQuoteAutoShred Lite, was developed by MfgQuote.com in partnership withPinion Software (Austin, TX).

AutoShred Lite is for buyers using the MfgQuote marketplace to placeorders out for bid. It is designed to work with the widely deployedSolidWorks eDrawings format. Sellers of outsource services need acompanion viewer to view files secured by AutoShred Lite. BothAutoShred Lite and its companion viewer are free.

With AutoShred Lite, you control the who, where, how, and when drawingsand documents are viewed.  AutoShred Lite prevents recipients ofyour files from cutting, copying, pasting, or modifying the informationin any way. It blocks screen captures of the content you secure, and itdeletes your files from the suppliers’ machines on a shred date thatyou set. AutoShred also securely encrypts your information forin-transit protection.

A second offering for MfgQuote.com users from Pinion Software combinesthe capabilities of AutoShred Lite with an advanced set of TechnicalRights Management capabilities that secure a wider range of dataformats, including technical and business application files. With thisproduct, called Pinion Desktop Packager-MfgQuote.com Edition, you havemore options for specifying what recipients can and cannot do with theintellectual property you share with them, such as whether documentscan be printed or screen-captured.

MfgQuote AutoShred Lite is available immediately. To protect yourSolidWorks eDrawings files, click here to go to download MfgQuote.comAutoShred Lite.

Suppliers of outsourcing services needing to view the protected SolidWorks eDrawings filesshould click here to download the MfgQuote AutoShred Lite file viewer.

More than 43,000 buyers use MfgQuote.com to source, collaborate, andreceive quotes online for more than 200 manufacturing processes such asCNC machining, metal stamping, forging, plastic molding, metalfabrication and metal casting. Click here  to go to theMfgQuote.com home page to learn more.