The coordination platform for new product introduction, from order to production.
Less coordination tax, more shipping programs.
CNC, milling, turning, EDM. AS9102 FAI, ITAR / CUI, multi-tier suppliers.
PCBA, box build, system integration. Fast ECO velocity, obsolescence, IPC.
Injection molding, tooling-coupled production, validation runs.
Sheet metal, welding, frames and enclosures. Fabricated assemblies with finishing in the loop.
Build-to-print shops running complex assemblies, multiple processes, suppliers, BOMs and customer-driven NPI.
Custom machines, industrial equipment, automation and complex subsystems.
Between the Systems
What 64 manufacturing operators told us about the real cost of coordinating NPI. Free, a 15-minute read.
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It's yours. If it describes your factory, we should talk.
Download the PDF →Time spent in meetings, on email, and on collaboration has grown by half over the past two decades. Most managers now spend the majority of their workweek on it, not on skilled work.
Delivery time on the largest defense programs (F-35, Columbia-class, Sentinel ICBM) climbed from 8 to 11 years. More than half reported schedule delays last year. Their suppliers feel every slip downstream.
Counting on hiring won't be enough. Your program managers and engineers need leverage, quickly.
“You can't run a program with email. It just doesn't work right. People lose emails. They forget about them. They sit for months unopened.”
“I as a PM have to go into all these different databases to pull all this information. All these things drive me crazy.”
“I'd spend time poking around trying to figure out how to make the tool do what I wanted, and then I would see that I couldn't do it. So it would be back to a spreadsheet.”
Your existing stack stays in place. BlackOrbit works alongside it.
Status updates, alignment calls, "quick syncs" collapse when every owner, blocker, and decision lives in one shared view.
Program managers double their effective output. Less status chasing. More decisions made, more risks anticipated.
Changes that used to take a week now close in days. The Planner surfaces impact; the Drafter prepares the comms.
The leverage compounds. Your strongest PMs run an extra concurrent program without burning out.
We read every submission ourselves. If there's a fit, you'll hear from a founder within 48 hours with two time slots for an intro call.
Come talk programs with us on the floor.
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