With the progress in CAE simulation leading to more complicated and integrated workflows, data control and transfer becomes essential. This is extremely important in the manufacturing industry where complicated simulation workflows are necessary in tracking material changes throughout the manufacturing process. Traditionally this has led to many one-off solutions created by engineers in their desire to solve their design-process problems within the defined timescales.Naturally, the result was that many methodologies for transferring information became available but were stand-alone and/or unavailable to different departments or entities.