Alternative Engineering, Inc.
Automation Machinery ManufacturingMichigan, United States11-50 Employees
Alternative Engineering, Inc. is a mid-sized engineering research and design firm focused on automation machinery manufacturing, based in Belmont, Michigan. It provides customized manufacturing solutions for distribution environments, starting from a client’s design challenge and delivering an original automation concept. The company analyzes system requirements, suggests improvements or alternatives, and produces a production-ready design plan along with testing, documentation, training, and parts support. It serves both robot integrators and distribution integrators and has designed packaging and material handling systems for Amazon, Caterpillar, FedEx, and GM, as well as smaller firms. Its approach emphasizes simplifying equipment and machining needs, reducing component variety, using pre-engineered commercial parts, and generating manufacturing drawings from parametric 3-D models, with electronics and pneumatics integrated into the mechanical design.