Engineering support from concept to customer's hands — Focused on reducing cost and risk
Design, quoting, and vendor coordination — grounded in real fabrication constraints.
Engineering support from concept to customer's hands — Focused on reducing cost and risk
Design, quoting, and vendor coordination — grounded in real fabrication constraints.
Takes less than 1 minute — no formal drawings required
Is your team overloaded on design, CAD, or field engineering work? Sands Works can provide fabrication drawings, bills of materials, field assessments, and design completion for manufacturers whose internal engineering teams are overloaded or falling behind schedule.
Specialties includes:
Mechanical design of industrial machinery with integrated automation systems
Material handling systems
sheet metal fabrication kits
Industrial handrail, platforms, food grade equipment
Food processing: routing block layouts and operational design
Turn sketches, field measurements, existing equipment, or incomplete concepts into clear drawings and documentation that a fabrication shop can quote and build.
Investigate recurring equipment failures, fit-up problems, mechanical interference, premature wear, and production bottlenecks. Develop practical corrective actions based on how the equipment is actually built and used.
Convert unclear customer requests into a defined technical scope, preliminary layouts, vendor pricing, material requirements, and realistic labor and cost estimates.
Evaluate whether a product concept is practical to manufacture, identify major technical risks and unanswered questions, and define the most efficient path toward prototyping and production.
New projects can begin with a limited assessment, fixed-fee first phase, or not-to-exceed engineering budget. Scope, deliverables, schedule, and cost limits are agreed upon before substantial work begins.
$90/hr Introductory rate & first time projects
Engineering: $90-120/hr
Travel / Non-engineering: $75/hr
Most projects are quoted upfront once scope is defined
Example: "Initial engineering effort will not exceed $900 without written approval"