Engineering
that pays
for itself.

Optimizer Consulting brings 25 years of design, cost optimization, and product management to every project we touch — from billet manifolds to rail welding trucks. Fresh eyes. Senior hands. Drawings the foundry can read.

What we believe Read the case studies

MF10 billet manifold — redesigned for permanent-mold tooling

FIG. 01 · Drop-in permanent-mold manifold $1.0M annual savings · Fresh-Eyes Review

25+

Years of senior
engineering leadership

$1M

Annual cost savings
from a single review

12.5%

Weight reduction —
no overweight permits

6mo

Concept to delivery,
under budget

Cost is not a number you find at the end. It’s a decision you make at the start — in the casting, the tolerance, the source.

PRINCIPLE 01 Optimizer Consulting · Operating Principle / 06

§ 02 — WHAT WE DO

Five disciplines.
One objective.

Get your product to market simpler, lighter, and more economical than it started. We’ll lead the team, sharpen the drawings, or just pull on the threads nobody else has time to chase.

01 Engineering Leadership Interim Chief Engineer for teams large and small. We lead the work and rebuild your internal process so it keeps running after we leave. 02 Design Services Castings, stampings, package studies, remastering — drawings the foundry and the toolmaker can act on without another phone call. 03 Product Reviews & Planning Fresh-Eyes Reviews focused on simplification, manufacturability, and cost reduction. Numbers, not opinions. 04 Cost Optimization A full sweep of sources, materials, and methods. We bring back options with engineering tradeoffs already worked out. 05 Localization & Sourcing A network of U.S.A.-based suppliers, foundries, and tool shops — and the design changes that make on-shoring actually pencil out.

CASE · 002 — RAIL ARCHITECTURE

A 3-truck rig,
collapsed
into one.

We rebuilt the rail-welding truck from architecture down. New crane, patent-pending rail storage, 12.5% lighter — light enough to skip the overweight permits altogether. Delivered in six months, under budget.

Read the full case

→ Single truck and crew deployment vs. original 3-truck rig
→ Integrated crane for rail manipulation
→ Patent-pending rail storage system
→ Delivered Q-on-Q, under budget

Fresh
EyesReview Process

USA
SourcedOnshoring Network

3 Patents
Granted+ 3 Applied For

$1M
SavedSingle Review

25+
YearsSenior Leadership

Engineering that pays for itself.

A 3-truck rig, collapsed into one.

Engineering
that pays
for itself.

A 3-truck rig,
collapsed
into one.