The German mechanical Engineering and plant construction industry has high potential risk for product piracy. The growing globalization leads to very complex and often non existing possibilities of law enforcements. Thus corporate demands are emerging for new strategies and methods against product piracy. This paper describes a concept for copy protection out of a systematic combination from an early technological implementation of controlled inter- and intraorganizational Know-how and sig-nal flows. Therefore operational and organizational aspects are reducing the risk of being copied. The described approach is not limited to the own company instead it will reconsider the whole value chain for a complete copy protection.
