Patent ID: 8244389

Claim:
A method for generating control data for the manufacture of a product comprising: providing at least one processing unit and at least one data-input unit; processing input data into a data structure with the at least one processing unit which are entered via the at least one data-input unit and which are suitable for controlling production equipment for manufacture of the product or can be transformed into such control data; the at least one processing unit comprising at least two of a first processing module and a second processing module; processing first input data from a first user with the first processing module; generating first control data having a first data structure with the first processing module where the first control data is configured such that only a second user can manufacture the product based on the first control data; generating second control data having a second data structure with the second processing module based on first input data from the first user or on the first control data and second input data from the second user; where the second control data is generally and freely usable by the first user for manufacturing the product; and wherein the first user determines whether first control data and/or second control data are generated such that the first control data is used by the second user for producing the product and the second control data is used by the first user for producing the product.