Part libraries outgrow
their governance.
The same geometry re-enters a library under a new number — rotated, mirrored, re-exported, renamed. Industry studies put the share of duplicated or obsolete part numbers as high as 60% Industry studiesA.
In aerospace, medical device, and automotive engineering, a part with two identities is not an inconvenience — it is a configuration-control defect. It splits inventory, forks revision history, and puts two records where an auditor expects one. Nobody plans for it. It accumulates: export by export, supplier by supplier, merger by merger.
Gauge.ID exists to answer one question the same way every time: is this geometry already in your library? The instrument computes a canonical identity per part — invariant to translation, rotation, and reflection — and issues every verdict under a declared policy, with a signed, replayable record. What cannot be certified is flagged for engineering review, never silently guessed.
It was built on first-principles mathematics by engineers with aerospace configuration-control backgrounds.
- A Duplicate and obsolete part-number rates are industry planning estimates, not Gauge.ID measurements. The cost model on the Solutions sheet exposes every assumption as an editable input.
Three commitments. Each one is testable in the deliverable — none asks you to take our word.
Run it twice. The bytes match.
Same file, same policy, same result — on your hardware or ours. A result that cannot be reproduced is not evidence, and we do not ship it.
Verdicts under rules you approve.
Every identity is certified under a versioned policy — the tolerance and equivalence rules you sign off — and the certificate names it. We never claim absolute uniqueness; the record states what was certified and under what.
Records over assurances.
The deliverable is a signed, replayable record you can re-run and verify. Anything that cannot be certified is flagged for engineering review — a flagged part beats a silent guess.
What is on record today. Fields hold true values or the field is deleted.
| Field | Entry |
|---|---|
| Legal entity | GaugeID LLC |
| Product | Deterministic geometric identity for CAD parts |
| General contact | info@gaugeid.com |
| Pilot & sales | sales@gaugeid.com |
| Deployment options | Hosted cloud · on-premise · air-gapped |
| Input formats | STL · OBJ · STEP |
Hosted evaluations run on cloud providers holding SOC 2 Type II attestations; GaugeID LLC has not yet completed its own SOC 2 audit — controls and roadmap available under NDA. For strict residency or export-control requirements, on-premise and air-gapped deployment keep geometry inside your network.
Judge us by the report, not this page.
A pilot audit runs a sample of your library under a declared policy and returns a signed, replayable report. Verify the determinism claim yourself: run it twice — the bytes match.