In precision product engineering, failures rarely come from one catastrophic event. More often, they build quietly through small, individually acceptable deviations that compound over time. While developing Everbowl, one such subtle issue grew into a full system-level reliability challenge: alignment drift. What looked at first like minor assembly variation started
Most systems don't fail while operating at their nominal specifications. They fail when real-world conditions push them into territory that was never fully modeled: transient overloads, off-axis forces, tolerance stack-ups, or repeated micro-stresses building up over time. Nominal specs are usually defined under controlled lab conditions: room temperature,
Manufacturing the first 25 complete units of a hardware product is its own kind of challenge. You're well past rough prototyping but not yet ready for the cost and rigidity of mass production. At this stage, success comes down to choosing manufacturing processes that deliver repeatability, functional reliability,