Engineering information management
Every record your engineering business keeps — versioned, released, connected.
MatStream applies PDM discipline to all of it: parts and assemblies, drawings and documents, purchase orders and stock. Every change is a version. Every state change is a lifecycle. Every link is traceable.
| Ic | Name | Ver | Pos | Tag | Qty | UoQ | Description | Part Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▾0023.0713.000 | 1 | 1 | Lube Oil System Piping | 0023.0713.000 | ||||
| General Arrangement Drawing | 1 | 1 | Dimensioned drawing showing the overall arrangement | |||||
| Inspection and Test Plan | 1 | 1 | Vendor inspection and test plan identifying hold points | |||||
| Pressure Test Certificate | 1 | 1 | Signed certificate stating the test pressure and result | |||||
| 0023.0713.000.pdf | 3 | 1 | 0023.0713.000 | |||||
| ▸0023.0713.101 | 1 | 28 | 1 | pc | Lube Oil Header | 0023.0713.101 | ||
| 0023.9603.100 | 1 | 32 | 1 | pc | SUCTION STRAINER, 1-1/2″ 150# | VSV-603100 | ||
| 0732.0220.000 | 1 | 23 | 725 | mm | Hydraulic Hose, 3/4″ | NHT-220000 | ||
| 0732.0225.000 | 1 | 24 | 2502 | mm | Hydraulic Hose, 1″ | NHT-225000 | ||
| 0732.0240.010 | 1 | 25 | 1014 | mm | Hydraulic Hose, 1 1/2″ | NHT-240010 | ||
| 0733.0120.001 | 1 | 13 | 2 | pc | Hex Nipple, 3/4″NPT x 3/4″BSP (60… | MFF-120001 | ||
| 0733.0120.051 | 1 | 16 | 2 | pc | Straight Female Swivel Connector, 3/4″ | MFF-120051 | ||
| 0733.0120.061 | 1 | 20 | 4 | pc | Crimp Ferrule, 3/4″ Stainless Steel | MFF-120061 |
The discipline
Built the way PDM is built. Applied to everything.
Product data management earned its rules the hard way: nothing is overwritten, nothing ships unreleased, and every part knows where it is used. MatStream makes those rules the foundation for any kind of record — not just CAD.
Versions are the audit trail
Every save of a part, document, purchase order or supplier creates a new version. Open any of them, compare, restore. The history is the record — there is no separate log to trust.
Lifecycles gate every change
States, transitions and who may perform them are configured per category. Release criteria are evaluated, not just displayed: an assembly cannot be released while a part in it is still in work.
Structures connect everything
Bills of materials, Uses and Where Used links, attached drawings, the purchase order a material request became. Change one thing and see everything it touches.
What runs on it
Start with what is built. Extend to what is yours.
PDM, document control and procurement are not separate modules — they are configurations of the same categories, properties, lifecycles and links. Which means you can add your own.
Product data management
Inventor-style parts and assemblies with stock numbers, revisions and bills of materials seeded straight from your drawings. Where Used from any part up to every assembly it sits in.
- Revisions
- BOM
- Where Used
- Piping template
Document control
Check files out, edit them on your desktop, check them back in — automatically. Lifecycle states on every drawing, and full-text search that looks inside the PDFs.
- Check-out / check-in
- MatStreamConnect
- PDF content search
Procurement
Material requests become purchase orders become receipts, each a versioned record linked back to the released engineering data it was ordered from. Stock levels per location, visible in the buyer’s inbox.
- Material request
- Purchase order
- Receipt
- Stock locations
Anything you need to control
Suppliers, customers, complaints, test reports, calibration records. Add a category, define its properties, permissions and lifecycle in the app, and it gets versions, links and search like everything else. No code.
- Categories
- Properties
- Lifecycles
- Automations
- Filters
Getting started
A working system on day one, not a blank database.
Create a workspace from a template
Pick a setup template — Piping, for example. Categories, properties, folders, lifecycles and permissions are seeded in minutes, with real sample structures to look at.
Make it your organisation’s
Rename states, add properties, set who may release what, define release criteria. All of it in the app, all of it versioned like the data it governs.
Connect the desktop and the team
Install MatStreamConnect to open, check out and check in files from Explorer. Invite Editors and Viewers. Share a record by link with a supplier who has no seat at all.
Beyond the engineering office
The people who need one record shouldn’t need the whole system.
Most of the people who touch engineering data are not engineers. MatStream gives them exactly the piece they need.
- Portal shares
- Share an assembly, a drawing or a purchase order by link. The recipient can view it — or contribute files and records to it — without a seat and without seeing anything else.
- Quick search across everything
- One search box over names, numbers, properties and the text inside attached PDFs. Results take you straight to the record’s place in the tree.
- Property-level permissions
- Cost price visible to purchasing, hidden from the shop floor — on the same record, in the same grid. Permissions live on the property, not on a copy of the data.
- Import what you already have
- Bring flat libraries in from Excel with a reusable import profile. Existing records are matched and versioned, not duplicated.
Pricing
Start free. Pay per seat when the team grows.
MatStream is in beta. Early-access workspaces are free while we finish; seats are added monthly after that — change them any time, up or down.