Author name: Eric Xie

Let’s skip the textbook definitions. When mechatronics engineers come to me looking to shave weight off a new housing, drone […]

There is a very specific, blinding white flash that happens right before a $150,000 5-axis mill is completely ruined. I’ve

Last month, I watched a junior machinist scrap a $400 block of AZ31B magnesium. He treated it like standard 6061

I had a hardware founder on a call last week who was just about ready to pull the plug on

Let’s talk about what Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) really looks like on the shop floor these days. It’s no

As a manufacturing engineer, one of the most frequent points of failure I see when hardware startups rely on cut-rate,

I spend half my week reviewing CAD files for commercial drones, and the story is almost always the same. The

As a hardware manufacturing consultant, the most common panicked email I get from startup founders usually involves a tooling quote.

I’ve lost count of how many times a client has sent us a CAD file for a complex enclosure, expecting