Ship more—without adding a shift.
Capacity Engineering for discrete and process manufacturers.
We help manufacturers get more out of the floor they already have—cutting the office work that surrounds production and automating the production itself where it pays, so quotes go out faster, jobs stop stalling between steps, and on-time delivery stops depending on who remembered to walk the floor.
- ERP & MES-friendly
- Traceability-aware
- Proven on the floor
- RFQ received
- Estimate drafted from job history AI
- Estimator sets the priceYou
- Job scheduled & released
- Shipped, traceability recorded
What we believe in
In manufacturing, capacity isn't a hiring problem—it's how much of the day the floor spends actually making things. Automation and AI included.
Quick Outcomes
What We Are Best At
The backlog isn't the problem—throughput is.
The constraint is rarely demand. It's the hours the floor spends on everything that isn't making the product.
Today's friction
- Estimating that lives in one person's spreadsheet—and their head
- Schedules on a whiteboard, where a reschedule ripples invisibly
- Paper travelers and batch records chased down after the fact
- Quality and traceability records assembled the week before an audit
- Job status you can only get by walking the floor and asking
- Unplanned downtime discovered when the line stops
With a system
- A repeatable estimating process any estimator can run
- Scheduling where a change shows its consequences immediately
- Travelers and batch records captured as work happens
- Traceability and inspection records that are always audit-ready
- Live job status without anyone leaving their desk
- Downtime and drift surfaced before they cost you a shift
Proof, not promises: our team has done this from the inside—leading infrared sensor calibration and camera assembly automation in-house at FLIR in Santa Barbara, including robotics, conveyance, and automated test on a live production line.
// the production journey
From RFQ to shipped, end to end
AI handles estimates, documents, and the signals hiding in your data; your team runs production and every decision; everything's traceable.
Quote & plan
AI drafts, you price
AISchedule & release
Your planner decides
HumanMake
Cells, lines, batches
Verify & trace
Inspection, records
Ship & learn
OTD, yield, next quote
AIWho We Help
Manufacturers who want more output from the floor they already have, including:
- job shops and contract manufacturers
- machine shops, fabricators, and assemblers
- electronics and precision instrument manufacturers
- process manufacturers—food, beverage, chemical, and coatings
- plants running batch, continuous, or mixed-mode production
- quality, engineering, and production planning teams
- operations leaders with more demand than shift capacity
Common reality: the orders are there—shift capacity and coordination are the constraint.
Your Manufacturing Operating System
What We Build
A practical operating system that connects the office to the floor—and automates both:
- Quoting, estimating & RFQ turnaround
- Production planning, scheduling & changeover
- Work orders, travelers & batch records
- Quality, NCR/CAPA & inspection records
- Traceability, lot & serial genealogy
- Maintenance, downtime & OEE reporting
- Robotic cells & material handling
- Conveyance & line integration
- Automated test & calibration stations
- Machine & sensor data capture
- Operator interfaces built for the floor
// safety & traceability by design
Built to protect your output, your quality, and your people
The rigor manufacturing leaders expect—safety, traceability, and human control—built in from the first phase.
Safety-first on the floor
Built around your safety, guarding, and lockout procedures—never bolted on after.
Traceable & audit-ready
Lot and serial genealogy, inspection records, and change history captured as work happens.
Humans in control
AI drafts estimates, schedules, and documents; your operators and engineers decide.
Proven before it runs
Changes are validated against real production before they carry your output.
How We Work
What We Assess
- Cycle time and bottlenecks (quoting, scheduling, changeover)
- Office-to-floor handoffs, rework, and scrap
- Quality, traceability, and audit-readiness gaps
- ERP / MES / QMS stack and how much of it is actually used
- Automation candidates on the line itself
- Metrics baseline: OTD, yield, downtime, throughput
What You Get
- A prioritized phased roadmap (Phase 1, 2, 3…)
- Clear outcomes + KPIs for each phase
- Tooling and automation recommendations (keep / improve / replace)
- Effort, sequencing, and a change plan
Each phase typically includes
- Workflow design + standards (SOPs, routings, inspection plans)
- Tooling selection / configuration / integration
- Automation on the line where it pays—cells, conveyance, test
- Automation + AI assist in the office (where safe and useful)
- Training + coaching for operators and supervisors
- Dashboards + a weekly operating cadence
Start with the constraint, prove it on one line or one cell, then scale.
Frequently asked questions
We already have an ERP or MES—do you replace it?
No. We integrate with what you run (Epicor, Global Shop, JobBOSS, NetSuite, SAP, or your MES and QMS) and fill the gaps people currently fill with spreadsheets, whiteboards, and walking the floor. Replacing a working system is rarely the constraint—the handoffs around it usually are.
Do you actually do physical automation, or only software?
Both. Our team has led production automation in-house at FLIR in Santa Barbara—infrared sensor calibration and camera assembly, including robotics, conveyance, and automated test on a live production line. That experience is why we start on the floor rather than only in the office: the two only pay off together.
Every job we run is custom. How can anything be templated?
We template the process, not the part. Quoting, routing, inspection, and traceability follow a repeatable path even when every job—or every batch—is different. That's what makes throughput predictable without standardizing your product.
How do you handle traceability, validation, and audits?
We design to the requirements you're held to—ISO 9001, AS9100, FDA and GMP for regulated process work—with records captured as work happens and change history retained. We build to your standard; we don't certify you against it.
Will AI make production or quality decisions on its own?
No. AI drafts estimates, flags schedule conflicts, and surfaces drift in the data; your planners, operators, and quality team review and decide. On a floor with real tolerances, that boundary isn't negotiable.
How fast do we see results?
Most manufacturers see gains from the first phase—usually in quote turnaround or in how quickly a job's status can be answered—before the next phase begins.
Find your constraint. Get capacity back.
Book a 30-minute assessment—we'll map the bottleneck and the fastest path past it. No slide decks, no obligation.