N23D is not another seat you rent until the renewal notice shows up. The product is one native Rust binary with a permanent license — CAD through MES on the same auditable spine, not thirteen landlords who invoice you to keep last year’s vault readable.
Identity can stay familiar: sign in with Microsoft Entra ID the plant already trusts. The data plane stays local-first — your thread does not need a vendor cloud as the system of record. PLM, ERP, and the rest of the stack header sit in one product shape, not a collage of suites glued by connectors.
Homepage pass/fail is blunt: One platform. Full digital thread. If you still pay rent to keep engineering, change, and cost in the same conversation, we failed. Permanent license means you buy the binary once and keep the thread you built — see licensing.
Demand ownership of the record, not another subscription that expires the truth. That is the Rust-native bar — and that is N23D.