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Protect know-how of PC-DMIS routines

Aaron Baldauf
Is there a possibility to protect PC-DMIS routines (.prg and .cad) from know-how theft?
This includes the routine (measurement strategy like number of points and so on) but also the product (CAD, PMI and so on).

If somebody should steal the routine he should not gain any knowledge (or as little as possible).

PC-DMI should be able to open and run these routines but the user should not gain any additional knowledge than the result (printout, PDF, excel and so on).

Do you guys know of any solution to this problem? If not a buyable product maybe a workaround?
How do you guys (with sensitive information) protect your routines and cad?
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  • Thanks for the detailed response!

    Actually the company I work for asked me this question today.

    They want to manufacture parts, that we designed and also manufacture ourselves, in another country. They are afraid that this knowledge will be stolen and are looking into ways to protect from this happening.
    Locking down the computer is one possibility but also has its disadvantages. Like how do you get the programs on to the machine and how do you get the results from the machine to the quality software.

    The "wish" is to handle it basically like software development. Difference between closed and open source software. The customer/manufacturer/contractor gets the program but not the knowledge within.
    Like when you buy a software you get a working software but you mostly can't see how the developer programmed his software.

    I also wrote Hexagon today but didn't get an answer yet.

    Also I don't know yet how much my company is willing to invest in a solution yet (money or time wise).

    My goal is to get as much information about this topic before reporting back to the requestor.
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  • Thanks for the detailed response!

    Actually the company I work for asked me this question today.

    They want to manufacture parts, that we designed and also manufacture ourselves, in another country. They are afraid that this knowledge will be stolen and are looking into ways to protect from this happening.
    Locking down the computer is one possibility but also has its disadvantages. Like how do you get the programs on to the machine and how do you get the results from the machine to the quality software.

    The "wish" is to handle it basically like software development. Difference between closed and open source software. The customer/manufacturer/contractor gets the program but not the knowledge within.
    Like when you buy a software you get a working software but you mostly can't see how the developer programmed his software.

    I also wrote Hexagon today but didn't get an answer yet.

    Also I don't know yet how much my company is willing to invest in a solution yet (money or time wise).

    My goal is to get as much information about this topic before reporting back to the requestor.
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