Where design intent meets the production floor.

Challenge: A US manufacturer of Jeep and Ford Bronco accessories needed to scale a growing product catalog while holding tight tolerances and consistent assembly quality across new vehicle fitments.

What we did: Owned DFM from concept through production: modeled sheet metal components in Fusion 360, designed to standard manufacturing tolerances, and worked directly with leadership to document assembly requirements for each new SKU.

Result: Four products brought to market across Jeep Gladiator, Wrangler, and Ford Bronco platforms. Zero tolerance escapes on critical fitment dimensions across all production runs.

Challenge: A zipline hardware manufacturer needed safety-critical operator documentation aligned to ASTM and ANSI standards before expanding their product to new operators.

What we did: Audited existing documentation gaps, then rewrote inspection procedures, maintenance protocols, and operator guidelines to meet the applicable standards with surgical precision.

Result: Delivered a compliant, field-ready manual set covering inspection, maintenance, and operation for a safety-critical recreational hardware product.

Challenge: A precision manufacturer operating five production facilities needed to reduce cycle time on a high-volume sandblasting operation while addressing a new operator safety issue introduced by a more effective processing media.

What we did: Designed an automated, enclosed media bag unloader - cutting the bag, vibrating dry material, and transferring it via vacuum conveyor into the sandblaster hopper - eliminating the dust exposure problem while enabling the new media to be used safely at scale.

Result: 20% reduction in sandblasting cycle time with simultaneous elimination of operator dust exposure. Improvement deployed across a precision diamond bearing manufacturing environment operating five facilities.

As founder of AcreLink, I've taken an Internet of Things hardware product from prototype to field deployment. That means qualifying suppliers for battery packs and capacitive soil probes, designing HDPE enclosures that survive burial in wet clay and tractor traffic, and building assembly documentation for a system with no above-ground components and no second chances once it's in the ground.

The gaps I see most in client work are the same ones I've had to solve: DFM decisions that looked fine in CAD, supplier risks that don't surface until volume, and assembly steps that live only in the founder's head.

I audit hardware the way I wish someone had audited mine.