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Provided are systems and methods that can extract part data from a PLM database and suggest changes to the manufacturing of the part. In one example, the method may include querying a database for a plurality of values of a part to be manufactured from a plurality of fields of computer-aided design (CAD) file stored in the database, mapping the plurality of fields of the CAD file to a plurality of corresponding fields of a host platform based on a type of the database, extracting the plurality of values from the CAD file and transferring the plurality of values to the mapped plurality of corresponding fields of the host platform, determining changes to one or more manufacturing attributes of the part to be manufactured based on the transferred plurality of values, and outputting the changes to a display.