Stop Burning Billable Hours on Managing SOLIDWORKS Data.Fractional PDM Administration and Custom API Tools Built for Fast-Moving Engineering Teams.

A misconfigured vault is a liability. It causes sluggish performance, broken file references, and dangerous revision errors that bleed money on the manufacturing floor. Carina Labs delivers expert, asynchronous PDM optimization and custom automation to protect your data and maximize your team’s capacity—at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.

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Is your PDM vault accelerating production—or dragging it down?

Engineers should be designing products, not fighting data management software. When a vault is unmanaged, engineering operations leak money in three specific places:

  • The Engineering Time Drain: Manual steps, messy data workflows, and broken file references force $45+/hr engineers to waste billable hours acting as accidental IT support.

  • The Floor Scrap & Compliance Risk: Poor vault setups can mean outdated drawing revisions occasionally slip through to the manufacturing floor, costing thousands in scrapped materials. More critically, if your team is preparing for or maintaining strict compliance standards like ISO 9001 or AS9100, an unmanaged vault is an audit failure waiting to happen. You need bulletproof electronic signatures, strict revision locks, and automated PDF generation required to pass rigorous quality audits seamlessly.

  • The Full-Time Hiring Trap: Most firms don't need a full-time, $90k+/year PDM Administrator to keep the lights on. They just need solid expertise, fractionally, to maintain stability and automate the heavy lifting.

Built by a designer, for teams that want to focus on designing.

Hi, I’m Josh Melnyk-Croft. I founded Carina Labs after spending over a decade in product design, experiencing firsthand the friction caused by slow and painful data management strategies.
As a Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE), I provide the highest tier of technical data management with the practical experience to back it up.
You won't deal with an account manager, a junior contractor, or a generic IT generalist who doesn't understand a Bill of Materials; you deal directly with me.How I protect your data:
I treat your live production environment with absolute respect. Your data never leaves your servers, and I practice strict security hygiene using hardware MFA and secure, client-approved VPN protocols from encrypted environments. I develop and test all API tools on local, isolated test vaults first —so nothing ever risks your live production data.Zero fluff. Just immediate ROI.
If your engineers are wasting hours fighting software instead of designing products, let's fix it. We'll tackle your biggest bottleneck first so you see an immediate return on your investment.Secure a spot on my calendar for a quick, zero pressure intro call.

Rock Solid PDM Support and Customization. Personalized Service, Predictable Pricing. Zero Overhead.

No open-ended, unpredictable hourly billing. Select the exact slice of expertise needed to unlock your engineering team's capacity.

Precision Automation Projects

Best for: Solving an immediate, painful workflow bottleneck with a high-ROI, standalone project.
Leveraging C# and the PDM Professional API to eliminate the repetitive, manual tasks that drain engineering time and introduce human error. These are fixed-price, targeted projects designed to pay for themselves within months.

  • Automated BOM Exports: Reliably export formatted XML, CSV, or JSON data from your PDM workflows, ready to be ingested by your ERP without manual data entry.

  • Customized Notification Solutions: Automate state change notifications straight to your project management software, Microsoft Teams, or Slack.

  • Custom Macros & Triggers: Automate property mapping, serial number generation, and KPI Reporting.

  • And More!

The Next Step: Fractional PDM Administration

Best for: Ongoing peace of mind, secure data compliance, and a continuously optimized vault—without hiring a full-time employee. Secure, dedicated, and proactive PDM management via a predictable monthly retainer.

The Premium Fractional PDM Admin Package - $2,500 / Month

  • Vault Peace-of-Mind: Weekly vault health checks, backup validation, and archive server monitoring to eliminate sluggish check-ins and clean up broken file references. Monthly reports keep you in the loop.

  • Predictable, asynchronous admin management. Standard tasks like user provisioning and permission management are completed within a guaranteed 4-to-24 hour window, ensuring zero disruption to your daily workflow.

  • Emergency Response In the rare event that a vault error locks your designers out of active projects, retainer clients have access to a priority emergency pipeline with an under 2 hour mitigation response time.

  • Continuous Optimization: One monthly Best-Practices & Workflow Consultation Call directly with a Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE) to optimize your team's speed and effectiveness.

  • Quarterly Automation Boost: One custom C# API micro-tool or workflow automation designed and deployed per quarter to completely eliminate your team's most repetitive engineering tasks.

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