Patent ID: 7870107

Claim:
A method comprising: storing, at a database of a first system, data pertaining to manufacturing of a product, the data including one or more component serial numbers associated with the product and one or more change orders associated with the product; determining, by the first system, when a change order has been submitted for the product; determining, by the first system, if the change order has been released; if the change order has not been released, polling, by the first system, the database until the change order is released; else if the change order has been released, generating, by the first system, a file for transferring the data pertaining to the manufacturing of the product to a second system distinct from the first system, the generating comprising: formatting the data in a manner that is compatible with the second system; including the formatted data in the file; determining one or more attributes of the data, the one or more attributes including fields in the database corresponding to the data, field lengths, and field validations; determining one or more mappings between the fields in the database and fields in a storage component of the second system; generating a profile for the second system based on the one or more attributes and the one or more mappings; and including the profile in the file; and sending, by the first system, the file to the second system, wherein, upon being received at the second system, the data included in the file is validated with corresponding data stored in the storage component of the second system, the validating being based on the profile.