The model is the record.
Other tools copy your CAD into the ERP. Signal derives the ERP from your CAD, and the shop floor writes back to it. Drawings, quotes and programs are outputs. The record is what stays.
A system of record, and everything else reads from it.
Most shops keep the design in one system and the business in another, then pay someone to keep them in agreement. Signal treats the model as the source. The ERP inherits what the model states, and the shop floor writes back what it learns. Four rules hold it together.
One owner per fact.
Geometry belongs to the model. Hardware counts belong to the fastener engine. Rates belong to Signal. No number is typed twice, so no two copies can disagree.
An append-only log.
Approvals, discrepancies and corrections are entries with a person, a time and a reason. Nothing is overwritten.
Traceable revisions.
When a part changes, every drawing and program that came from it goes back to pending until someone approves it again.
A record that grows.
Every job adds to the same corpus. Corrections on one kitchen become the rule on the next, instead of leaving with the person who made them.
Every step reads the record or writes to it.
Pick a step to see what it adds. The cabinet is drawn once. Everything after that is derived, approved or corrected, and each of those actions is kept.