A system for collaborating on a component includes a computing device having a memory and a processor, the computing device configured to execute a first multi-user CAx environment, a data module configured to access data corresponding to a component design having at least one feature corresponding to a group of feature types from at least one current state database in a memory storage device, and a time stamp tool included in the multi-user CAx environment and configured to cause at least one computing device executing the multi-user CAx environment to apply a timestamp to each revision of a part model and save each revision including the timestamp to a revision database.