Store your business’ essential documents securely offsite to save space and ensure compliance.
Protect your business’s digital media in a secure, climate-controlled vault.
Preserve the safety and integrity of biological samples, pathology slides, and critical medical materials with secure, climate-controlled storage.
Optimize storage for pallets and bulk items with secure, scalable solutions ideal for growing businesses.
Secure your essential records like wills, evidence, trusts, and legal documents in our vault.
Easily manage and track your inventory online with Corodata’s secure and user-friendly Client Portal.
Need storage boxes? Order Corodata’s durable, secure boxes online in just a few clicks. Keep your records organized and protected.
Access your physical documents digitally with Corodata’s Scan on Demand service. Deliver secure, on-request scans directly to your device.
Digitize large quantities of documents efficiently with Corodata’s High Volume Scanning. Ensure quick, secure, and accurate conversion to digital files.
Securely access your digital and scanned documents anytime from your desktop, tablet, or phone with CoroVault.
Keep your business compliant and secure with our NAID-certified paper shredding services.
Securely dispose of IT assets with secure data destruction and responsible recycling.
Prevent data breaches with certified hard drive destruction, fully wiping data and ensuring compliance.
Host a shred event to provide secure shredding services to your community at a central location with our mobile shred truck.
We offer a range of secure, locked shred bins and consoles designed to safely store confidential documents and files. Explore our available options today!
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This guide reveals exactly which business records to keep and for how long.
Safeguard your business operations and speed up recovery during a crisis by completing this disaster recovery plan.
Easily maintain HIPAA compliance with our comprehensive checklist.
Since 1948, we have delivered secure records management solutions to help businesses confidently protect and manage their information.
Comprehensive records management built for the demands of modern manufacturing.
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Manufacturing operations generate paperwork at every stage of production, and much of it carries proprietary value. Product specifications, operational documentation, employee files, quality records, and backup tapes all need protection from theft, damage, and unauthorized access. Corodata provides manufacturing records management services for businesses across California. From offsite document storage and media vaulting to secure shredding and document scanning, manufacturers have relied on us to protect production records, engineering files, and backup media while keeping every document accessible and compliant. Our records management for manufacturers covers the full document lifecycle, including active storage, on-demand retrieval, and certified destruction.
Corodata's records management services cover storage, protection, destruction, and digitization, so manufacturers can partner with one company for the whole lifecycle. Each service runs on documented procedures, tracked custody, and local California facilities.
Our secure facilities store boxes that would otherwise take up plant and office space. We barcode, index, and store every carton in conditions designed for long-term preservation. With Corodata, manufacturing document storage covers scheduled and on-demand delivery, records storage services, and online client portal access, so files stay retrievable within hours, no matter what happens at your facility.
Backup tapes, hard drives, and other media need better protection than an office shelf provides. Our media and tape vaulting service keeps magnetic and digital media in climate-controlled Firelock vaults with media-safe fire suppression, housed in seismically engineered buildings with restricted access. Scheduled tape rotation keeps backups current, and manufacturers use vaulting to protect ERP backups, CAD archives, and system images, keeping recovery possible even if the plant itself is compromised.
Records kept past their retention date only add risk. Corodata provides NAID AAA Certified secure shredding for manufacturers, with locked collection consoles, scheduled pickups, and one-time purges. Every job ends with a certificate of destruction. Hard drive and media destruction covers the digital side, including IT asset disposition for healthcare manufacturers subject to HIPAA.
Some records are more useful in digital form. Our scanning services convert active files into searchable digital documents, and scan-on-demand digitizes individual files from storage only when someone actually needs them. Engineering teams get shared access to drawings and specs without duplicating paper, and compliance staff can produce a requested document in minutes.
Partner with Corodata to create a tailored document management strategy designed specifically for the manufacturing industry. Whether you need offsite document storage, media vaulting, certified shredding, or IT asset disposition, each solution is engineered to safeguard your business data, support compliance, and keep your organization audit‑ready.
For manufacturers, four records management challenges come up again and again: record volumes are high, many documents contain trade secrets, retention periods can run for decades, and physical records are vulnerable to disasters.
Manufacturers generate large volumes of operational records, including:
Manufacturing records often contain confidential and proprietary information, including:
Manufacturing records retention requirements vary considerably by record type, location, and applicable regulation.
Fire, flooding, theft, and equipment failure can destroy decades of manufacturing records in a single incident, and in California, wildfires and earthquakes are added to the list of disasters that threaten business records. Some manufacturers store the only copy of their records onsite, near the machinery and materials that put them at risk, and backup tapes often face the same hazards. As a practical foundation for business continuity and disaster recovery planning, offsite records storage and media vaulting give critical documents a second, protected location, so no single incident can destroy every copy. If disaster strikes, Corodata returns vaulted media quickly, and recovery starts right away.
To support compliance and information security, records management for manufacturers depends on a documented chain of custody, from where a record originated and lived to who accessed it and how it was destroyed. Manufacturing records compliance means being able to show a record's history to an auditor, a regulator, or a court, and Corodata builds that proof into each service.
Every box and file we handle is tracked from pickup through storage, retrieval, and final disposition. Controlled handling procedures, barcode tracking, and authorized-access rules keep accountability intact throughout the records lifecycle. Manufacturing document management with a documented chain of custody means there's never a gap where a record's location or handler is unknown.
Keeping records indefinitely feels cautious, but it inflates storage costs and increases legal exposure, since any document a company still holds remains discoverable. Organized offsite storage tied to your retention schedule flags records as they become eligible for destruction, and secure disposal completes the process, so internal policies get followed.
Destruction only counts if you can prove it happened. Corodata issues a certificate of destruction for every shredding and media destruction job, whether a one-time purge or part of an ongoing service, recording what was destroyed, when, and under what process. Certificates give manufacturers audit-ready evidence that confidential records were disposed of through a controlled process.
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