Buyers of supplier data

Who buys automotive engineering data, in their own words

Two published listings name the kind of records an automotive supplier keeps. Around them are marketplaces and programmes that license company data of any sort.

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Two listings that fit a supplier

Mercor's hardware listing puts automotive suppliers first and gives a range of $45,000 to $1,350,000 a company. Its manufacturing listing, for plants and shops with production and maintenance records the company owns, gives $100,000 to $1,500,000, and both rule out data restricted by customer contracts or owned by customers.

Source: Mercor, Manufacturing and Industrial Company listing data

Where a supplier can list data

Datarade and Opendatabay list a seller's data products for buyers to find; Opendatabay's catalogue already carries a first-person video set filmed on automotive and electronics assembly lines. Defined.ai runs partnership programmes for businesses that own or process data.

Source: Who takes an automotive supplier's engineering data

Licensors of company records

Troveo and Nyne license a company's records to AI labs on agreed terms; Nyne says payment follows once a dataset is delivered and accepted, and Troveo that its partners share in each new sale rather than being paid once.

Describe the engineering record

Most carmakers' terms claim what a supplier develops on their programmes, so the first job is drawing the line around what is yours. Tell us about the record and we will reply in writing.

What the record holds
  • A person reads each supplier enquiry
  • No carmaker, portal or tool vendor named here sees your answers
  • Please leave drawings, part numbers and customer names out of this form

Find out which part of your engineering record is yours to license

Most carmakers' terms claim what a supplier develops on their programmes, so the first job is drawing the line around what is yours. Tell us about the record and we will reply in writing.

Sources

This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

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