Infinitum's motors replace the heavy copper windings of a conventional electric machine with a printed-circuit-board stator — lighter, smaller, and quieter, but manufactured nothing like a traditional motor. That means the production process can't be inherited from the industry; large parts of it have to be invented and proven.
I lead manufacturing for that build — the team, the NPI program, and the process. The core of the work is developing and stabilizing new assembly and process steps: taking build methods that work at the bench and turning them into a repeatable, documented, inspectable flow that a team of operators can run with consistent results.
Built and led the manufacturing team for the line and owned the NPI program across engineering, quality, and supply — turning a bench-proven build into a staffed, documented operation, and coordinating the contract-manufacturing and supplier partners the ramp depends on.
Put critical process steps under SPC — defining what to measure, building control charts and capability (Cp/Cpk) studies, and pairing each monitored characteristic with a clear reaction plan so the line catches drift before it turns into scrap, not after.
Built the data backbone that makes the above trustworthy: capturing measurements directly from test, inspection, and process equipment, tagging every reading with its part, station, and recipe for full traceability, and landing it in one shared store so the factory reports its own state in real time.
Defined and qualified assembly processes for the PCB-stator architecture — sequencing operations, specifying fixtures and tooling, and setting the process windows that keep critical steps in control.
Ran structured root-cause analysis on assembly and electrical defects, using the data system to isolate contributing variables and drive corrective actions back into the process so the same failure wouldn't recur.
A genuinely new product needs a genuinely new process — but the engineering discipline behind it doesn't change. The win was making an unfamiliar build method observable and controllable, so it could scale without depending on the person who first figured it out.