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Every stage of your product,

developed under one roof.

With our in-house designers, engineers, and machinists working together from day one, issues get fixed in CAD - not discovered in production, so you get your product shipped without compromising your vision, or timeline.

 

About Us

Our mission of exploration inspires our mindset as well as our work

Since our founding in 2001, we've applied that mindset to product engineering, acting as a bolt-on extension to your R&D teams, exploring all viable directions, then confidently charting the path forward.

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What We Believe

Engineering Managers should be directing the product, not the process.

Most products are developed by separate teams, one for design, one for engineering, one for prototyping. Each is good at what they do, but this handoff-heavy approach leads to fatal gaps. Knowledge gets lost in transition, design flaws go undetected until you're deep into development, and late-stage changes create crippling delays.

 

It's why we bring Design, Engineering, Prototyping, and Pre-Production under one roof.

 

Our engineers, machinists, and additive technicians work alongside designers from day one, so issues surface in conversation,
not in production.

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Don't prototype once it's ready.
Prototype until it's ready.

When you can prototype early, often, and in-house, products become stronger and get to production sooner. In most setups, a design change means re-quoting, re-scheduling, and re-waiting. For us, it means walking down the hall. It's how our clients can iterate in days, not weeks.

 

Prototyping should be a tool, not a milestone.

Flexible by Design

Through our work with Fortune 100 innovators and ambitious R&D teams, we've built up a wealth of insights we can adapt to new contexts. What we found benefits all our clients across domains: our combination of resourcefulness, agility, and collaborative expertise. You see this approach codified in our values:

Go beyond what you know

No matter how extensive our experience, there's always more to learn. Never settling on the status quo, we thrive on developing better ways of engineering.

push the envelope

Whether we develop new tools within NX or leverage 3D printing technology for previously impossible geometries, we pursue the next level with creativity and endurance.

act with agility

Free of unnecessary bureaucracy, we adapt quickly to the dynamics of each project and seize emerging opportunities.

turn to your team

Our colleagues' insight continues to amaze us. When we need additional expertise or a fresh perspective, we find it among our team.

Meet the team that makes the difference

 

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