The biggest cost in product development isn’t a bad idea……….It’s redesign.

I’ve seen projects lose weeks—and sometimes months—not because the concept was wrong, but because no one asked the manufacturing questions early enough.
Questions like:
Can this actually be machined or folded?
How will this be welded or assembled?
Can a tool even reach that fastener?
Are the tolerances realistic?
How many custom parts are we creating unnecessarily?
Modern CAD makes almost anything look possible.
Manufacturing quickly tells you what actually is.
The best engineers don’t just design parts.
They design products that can be made, assembled, serviced, and repeated consistently.
A few hours spent thinking about manufacturability at the start can save thousands of dollars later.
That’s why I spend as much time talking to fabricators, machinists, and suppliers as I do modelling in CAD.
Good engineering isn’t about making complicated things.
It’s about making complicated problems look