Automated robotic assembly line in a vehicle manufacturing facility
West Michigan · Fractional Automation Advisory

Your automation
decisions deserve
someone bridging the gap.

Small manufacturers are making six-figure automation decisions — and running daily operations — without anyone on their side. Trestle helps you decide what to automate, and gets more out of what's already running. We sit at your table before, during, and after every project.

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5+
Years Hands-On Integration
$0
Cost for Initial Floor Walk
24hr
Response Commitment
The Problem

Integrators work for themselves.
You need someone working for you.

When a manufacturer is ready to automate, they call an integrator. That integrator has every incentive to oversell scope, pad timelines, and lock in dependencies. Most small manufacturers have no way to know if the proposal in front of them is right — or just the most profitable one for the person pitching it.

Trestle sits on your side of the table instead. Click each card below to see exactly how that plays out.

Common Scenario

A metal fabricator gets three bids ranging from $180K to $340K on the same welding cell. No idea which is right — or which integrator will actually deliver. The low bid looks attractive until you realize it excludes safety fencing, training, and a year of support. The high bid includes redundant capacity nobody asked for.

Without someone translating between what's written in a proposal and what's actually needed on the floor, the decision comes down to guesswork dressed up as due diligence.

What We Do

We review all three proposals side by side, identify exclusions the low bid is hiding, flag scope the high bid doesn't actually need, and negotiate payment milestones that protect your cash flow if the integrator falls behind.

We speak both languages — the integrator's technical shorthand and the plant manager's operational priorities — so nothing gets lost in translation on either side.

The Result

$55K–$115K in identified savings on a single bid review. A well-scoped project that matches your actual production needs. A protected budget with milestones tied to real progress.

And an advisor on-site when execution begins — so the project you approved is the project you actually get.

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Who We Serve

Built for the manufacturer
no one else is paying attention to.

Large integrators chase large contracts. That leaves a real gap for the manufacturers in between — too sophisticated to go in blind, too small to justify a full-time automation engineer on staff.

15–150

Employees

Established enough to have a real automation budget, lean enough that one bad decision actually hurts.

0

Automation engineers on staff

You don't have — and don't need — a full-time automation hire. You need someone in your corner when it matters, not on payroll year-round.

WMI

West Michigan

Holland, Grand Rapids, Zeeland, and the surrounding manufacturing corridor — close enough to walk your floor in person.

Start with a free floor walk.

No pitch. No obligation. We'll walk your facility, listen, and send you a written summary within 48 hours.

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