Posts tagged Business
CRM Comparison

CRM stands for Customer Resource Management. There are many tools included in CRM solutions that let you keep track of your tasks, events, contacts, interactions with these contacts, leads, deals, and more. A simple Google search for best CRM and you will discover there is a truly overwhelming number of options for you to choose from. Following, I will offer you a narrowed down selection of which solutions seemed best to me, and why.

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Team Lunch and Learns

Here at Perception Engineering, we are constantly expanding our knowledge to become professionals in everything that we do. However, in the engineering field, there are thousands of different types of manufacturing processes, design tactics, software, and techniques that can be utilized. Lunch and learns are a great way to dig into numerous new processes and ideas.

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Hayden KemmeBusiness
Laser Cutting Name Plates Design Process

As a professional CAD designer, the design process is the most crucial process to be familiar and proficient with. A CAD designer must be able to take an idea and bring it through the process and come out with a product on the other side. This blog will be over one of the in-house projects completed at Perception Engineering.

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Manufacturing Support Services

In manufacturing, there are a lot of fluctuating circumstances that need to be monitored in order for a company to be successful and profitable.  Companies need to be constantly working to make sure that the manufacturing side of the business is always operating at max efficiency.

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Hayden KemmeBusiness
Toggl at Perception Engineering

Here at Perception Engineering, as much of the work we do is on time-based quotes, we meticulously keep track of time spent on any given task. This allows us to give customers an accurate view of how time was spent on their project and what they’re paying for.

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Matthew FontanaBusiness
Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering is the process of examining and deconstructing a design that is already built and acquiring all the necessary data required to reproduce it. Here at Perception we perform this process for a variety of customers and with each project a unique set of challenges and ingenuity awaits.

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Marcus Prigge2, Business
Advanced Manufacturing Expo (AME)

The advanced manufacturing expo made a stop in Grand Rapids recently and I was given the chance to attend it! The point of these expos is to give suppliers the opportunity to show off and sell their newest manufacturing solutions to others and also give attendees the chance to learn about the latest technologies in the industry. I will be covering this expo as someone who has never been to one, and I will be giving my before and after thoughts on my experience!

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Hayden Kemme2, Business, Expo
Engineering Co-Op at Perception Engineering

The first step into the real world of Engineering. The day I had been waiting for since my first day of college classes. A chance to apply the hours and hours of studying I had devoted over the past few years. Time for all my hard work to pay off. My engineering co-op experience at Perception Engineering.

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Matthew Fontana1, Business
Perception Engineering 5-Year Celebration

Thanks to everyone who came in celebration of Perception Engineering! Perception Engineering was started with a single 3D printer in the basement of Stephen’s house. Now it has grown to service the needs of manufacturers, inventors, and automation machine operations all over West Michigan.

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Brenden DeVries1, Business
Advanced Manufacturing Expo - Cleveland

Have you ever looked for opportunities to place yourself in an environment where you could feel that you were surrounded by the best and brightest? A place where every conversation led to new thoughts and concepts that you had never explored before? Well I found a place like this during my recent trip to the Advance Manufacturing Expo.

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