PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

With over 22 years experience in product development, I work hard to apply modern engineering tools to old school standards to our work, giving our clients the ability to provide the most cost effective, high quality, and efficiently built product to their customers.

Each project is scoped to understand our clients needs and managed to ensure on time delivery of information.

The quality of our work ensures all information needed to build a product is available. We use our tools as intended so the focus can be out on the product being designed. Our philosophy is the tools should not be an obstacle to good design, they should be an asset. With this approach, we can hit hit the sweet spot for how and when a tool should be used, and not over or under utilizing them.

Services:

  • Design Engineering

  • 3D Modeling

  • Drawings

  • Bill of Materials Management

  • Photo rendering

Drawing Types:

  • Fabrication

  • Installation

  • Architectural Plans and Elevations

  • Schematics

  • Interface

  • Assemblies

  • Inseparable Assemblies

  • Shop

Disciplines:

  • Mechanical

  • Millwork

  • Plumbing

  • Electrical

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Services:

  • Project Planning

  • Project Scheduling & Execution

  • Project Budget

  • Supply Chain Management

  • Online Project Visibility

Whether we are doing the product development for a project or assigned to manage the project (or both), we feel success depends on strong project management. Knowing what has been completed, what is remaining, who it is assigned to, and are we on track for the cost and schedule of the project is critical. We apply standard project management practices to ensure the project remains on budget and on schedule.

We use smartsheet in-house to manage projects. We find that smartsheet give us all of the project management, collaboration, and reporting tools needed to successfully manage a project, however, Microsoft Project can also be used.

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LASER SCANNING

Accurate measurements and geometry are critical for the design process and to ensure a good fit and finish in the field. We use laser scanners to capture real work as-built point cloud data to be used in the development process.

Services:

  • Onsite Scanning

  • Point Cloud Post Processing

  • 3D Models & 2D Views of Existing Space

  • As-Built Capture

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

  • Standards

  • Processes

  • Team Building

  • Change Process

  • Revision Control

  • Bill of Material Development

During my years working in and managing engineering offices, I haven’t seen anything that slows productivity and negatively affects a development team like poor standards and processes. Advancements in technology have given us great tools to develop and build products. However, without a stable foundation of good standards, processes, and use of those tools, they can have the reverse affect on development.

As mentioned in the about section, I have spent my career focused on and learning about the proper way to apply modern engineering and product development tools to old school engineering standards and processes. Good standards and processed, combined with a strong team, can overcome any product development challenges.

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