Moving Parts Design, LLC
Machine Design - Consulting - Design Review - Automation - Retool/Retrofit - Concept Development
Moving Parts Design is a machine design/automation provider serving manufacturing customers in the Carolinas.
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Collaboration with a broad network of individual mechanical and controls engineers, as well as small automation design and fabrication shops allows Moving Parts Design to operate economically even at the smallest scales, while delivering the level of work expected from large automation houses.
What We Do
New Machine Design
Moving Parts Design can provide prints/BOMs/schematics or design/build services. We can economically deliver prints for a single hand tool or deliver a complete fully-automated machine.
Retool/Retrofit
We work economically at the smallest scales: reverse-engineering a single piece of tooling is not too small a job. We can add a sensor to poka-yoke a press, design tooling for a new part on an old station, or duplicate an old machine with a modern control system.
Concept Development/
Design Review
We sell brain power, not hardware. If you have a project too large for our network, but lack internal resources with automation industry experience, Moving Parts Design can supplement. We can be engaged as an advocate for your organization when dealing with large automation providers, or as a technical resource with the skills to evaluate your conceptual project.
Working with your Organization
We can provide as little or as much help as needed. We can make prints for your machine shop to fabricate or your technicians to assemble. We can recommend concepts, methods, technologies, and suppliers to your engineering staff.  We can work fixed-bid or T&M. Our network makes us flexible. Our experience makes us economical.
About the Owner
Joey Wells
The first 10 years of my engineering career were spent at a small automation provider that was growing into a medium-sized automation provider at the breakneck pace of the South's manufacturing boom. I majored in mechanical design and minored in applications and management. I spent a lot of time in a lot of different plants, and quoted or built machinery for diverse organizations in diverse industries.
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Since that time I have had the opportunity to sit on the other side of the table, specifying and buying large and small equipment, and seeing things from the customers' point of view.
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During those years, in addition to building up the industry experience that I now bring to bear on my customers' challenges, I came to believe that there is an under-served customer in the manufacturing equipment market.
Moving Parts Design was conceived to serve the manufacturing engineer with:
1. A viable project too small for the small automation shop, but too complex for the local machine shop, or
2. A good idea that could take an automation insider a few days to prove viable, but might take plant resources working with automation provider sales teams months.
If this sounds familiar, I look forward to serving you!