About Us
Better By Design, LLC is a custom machine designer & builder. We build solutions that fit your process, your work culture, and your budget.
Each system is tailored to meet an extensive list of criteria to ensure it performs in your factory/shop environment with your personnel with the minimum required maintenance, high system availability, and the shortest time possible to return to service in the event of a failure.
| Requirement | Criteria |
|---|---|
| Customer involvement | You are part of the design and build process from beginning to end |
| Operator skill/needs | Control, pace, ergonomics, communication |
| Technician skill level | Knowledge/familiarity, diagnostics, training & troubleshooting aids |
| Maintenance capability | In house tooling available, common componentry, available spares |
| System agility | Simplicity & time of change-over |
| System adaptability | Current products/processes & future potential products/processes |
| System durability | Minimize moving parts and wear parts, highest quality longest life components |
| System maintainability | Utilize global suppliers for part availability, Manufacturers' model numbers on BOMs, Detail drawings and specifications provided for specialized parts |
| System reliability | Use highest quality components with worldwide reputation and availability |
Our repertoire of technologies coupled with our experience across a broad range of industries (including automotive, plastics, medical, metering, dental, etc) allows us to bring the best of both to your application consistent with providing a solution that that is creative, effective, efficient and reliable. Our goal is to bring you the fastest possible payback with the minimum effort on your part.
Some of the technologies mastered by better by design, LLC are:
| Technology | Applications |
|---|---|
| Vision | Inspection, verification, guidance, control |
| Leak Test | Pressure decay, differential, vacuum, etc. |
| Robotics | Multiple axis (lifting, precision placement, controlled movement, etc) |
| Indexer | Linear, rotational multiple station assembly or testing |
| Conveyors | Precision, indexed or continuous for product movement & positioning |
| Motion control | Servo, Variable Frequency Drive to control both position & force |
| Communication | Ethernet, Device Net, Can-Bus, Profi-Bus, etc. |
| Control | PLC, PC, HMI, Robot, Servo Programming |
Better by Design does not believe in holding you hostage to proprietary designs. Instead, we utilize off-the-shelf components whenever possible. Our customers have the choice of either providing us with their company specifications or we can select the brand and type of components that make the most sense based on our field experience. If you have a preferred control platform or preferred components that fit your current spares stock, we will design around those. We are able to work with a variety of global suppliers to fit your operation.