How many engineer hours go into searching, transferring and repeating at your company?

Documents are built from the bill of materials, the specification and the design revision – and have to be updated by hand after every change. Release still rests with a person. In the audit for Engineering this is a dedicated area: you answer questions taken from your everyday work, and the result shows where automation can realistically help here.

Besides the Technical documentation area, it covers Knowledge and standards and Calculation and simulation, among others. In total the audit spans 11 areas from the configuration for Engineering – services you do not offer are skipped by the questionnaire.

Yes. Your maturity score is set against the average of the audits already completed in the same sector. As long as too few audits are available for that, the result shows a neutral reference value and labels it explicitly as such, no invented sector statistics.

For heads of engineering, heads of design and technical directors who want to know how much working time their processes actually tie up. It is industry-neutral: mechanical engineering, plant construction, automotive, electronics, medical devices, aerospace, rail, software.

What matters is what you want examined, not what you manufacture. The industry audit looks at the company as a whole, the engineering audit at a standalone engineering department. As a rule of thumb: below roughly thirty employees the industry audit usually fits; from an engineering function of five people upwards, this one does. If you know the industry audit as a mechanical engineering company, engineering office, industrial company or IT service provider, this is the deep dive into that one department.

No. It assesses process, effort, frequency and data availability – never design, sizing, calculation results, material choice or product quality. The report says how long something takes and where effort arises, not whether it is correct.

They are trade secrets and do not belong in freely accessible services. Every measure that processes technical content names the protection required and an implementation that preserves it: self-hosted models, your own data centre, or contractually secured processing within the European area. For many engineering departments this is the decisive point of the report.

You get a range, not a single number, and alongside it every assumption behind it. From answer steps such as "4 to 16 hours per case" no exact amount can be derived. The benefit shown is engineering time released, not headcount saved.