About Applied Designs
Real Experience.
Practical Solutions.
Measurable Results.
Engineering starts with understanding. Understanding starts on the production floor.
Our story
Built from hands-on experience.
Applied Designs brings more than 30 years of experience across product development, tooling, manufacturing engineering, process improvement, CNC, automation and operations.
That experience began while working as an HVAC technician and learning manufacturing equipment firsthand, then expanded into design, tooling, production engineering, continuous improvement and engineering leadership. The common thread has always been the same: understand the problem, solve it practically and see the work through.
Experience that matters
Hands-on manufacturing foundation
Started close to the equipment and learned how things were actually built before moving deeper into engineering.
Tooling & manufacturing engineering
Designed production tooling, worked alongside operators and moved into time studies, process improvement and production engineering.
Engineering leadership
Led engineering work across tooling, equipment, automation, continuous improvement and manufacturing systems.
Applied Designs
Now provides design and lean manufacturing capability to companies that need experienced support without forcing every problem into one discipline.
What drives us
The way we work.
Integrity
Do what you say you are going to do.
Listen
Observe more than you talk. Understand first.
Practicality
Solutions have to work in the real world.
Persistence
Stay with the problem until there is a workable path forward.
Execution
A recommendation only matters if somebody can implement it.
A different approach
Listen. Observe. Understand. Solve.
Listen
Understand what the client believes the problem is.
Observe
See the product, process or operation firsthand whenever possible.
Understand
Separate assumptions from constraints and find the real issue.
Solve
Develop a practical design or manufacturing solution.
Execute
Support the work through implementation when the project requires it.
Applied Designs is often brought into proprietary product development and difficult manufacturing problems. Client details and internal issues stay confidential unless the client approves their use.