An apparatus, system and method for microscopy. A plurality of buyers participate competitively by registering a purchase price. The architecture and processes facilitate the migration of this institutional knowledge, thus greatly reducing the time, cost, and resource expenditures spent re-creating similar components in an updated application and updated scripts to test those application components. The external storage device 27 is provided for storing relationship-defining information that defines the relationship between a manufacturing component where a modification is made on its production data and a designing component in design data that corresponds to the manufacturing component.