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title: "M-Files by industry · Solution Management"
url: "https://solutionmanagement.eu/industries/"
language: "en"
description: "How M-Files is set up for the documents of different sectors: how they are found, who acts on them next, who may open them and when they are deleted."
dateModified: "2026-10-22"
---

Industries

# Every sector has its own paperwork

A factory needs the current revision at the machine. A finance firm needs to know who changed a client file, and when it must be deleted. M‑Files is the same system in both. We set it up around your documents and your rules.

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![An illustration of documents, a process map and a dashboard linked together](https://solutionmanagement.eu/img/70jjB3Vtiz-680.svg)

What we set up

## What we settle with you first

The software is the same in every sector. These four decide how well it fits yours.

-   How a document is found — Each document carries what your work depends on, such as the customer, the project, the supplier or the revision. People look for the customer and get the customer's documents. M‑Files calls this metadata.
-   Who acts on it next — A document moves through the steps you already follow, such as draft, review and approval. At each step M‑Files can tell the right people, give them the task, change who has access and update the document's fields.
-   Who may open it — Access follows the customer, the project or the case a document belongs to, and the kind of document it is. It can change as the work moves on.
-   When it is deleted — A rule on a type of document, or on the customer or case it belongs to, deletes it automatically when its period has passed.

![The Views home of an M-Files vault: the common views from governance documents and tasks to change requests and recorded issues, and the other views below](https://solutionmanagement.eu/img/y3AHC7zqyQ-200.webp)

By sector

## Pick the sector closest to yours

[### Manufacturing

One current version of every drawing and procedure, with the approval on record when the auditor asks for it.

See the industry](https://solutionmanagement.eu/industries/manufacturing/) [### Financial services

A client's documents found together, open only to the people who serve them and deleted when your rules say so.

See the industry](https://solutionmanagement.eu/industries/financial-services/) [### Professional services

Last year's proposal, there for whoever writes this year's. Documents filed under client and engagement, and a search that reads the text.

See the industry](https://solutionmanagement.eu/industries/professional-services/) [### Engineering and construction

Know which drawing revision was issued, who approved it and when, with the project's emails kept beside it.

See the industry](https://solutionmanagement.eu/industries/engineering-construction/) 

Another sector

## Tell us which documents you manage

The four decisions are the same whatever the documents are, and we bring decades of experience across diverse industries to them. Tell us about yours and we answer the same working day.

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