Nissin Foods
Food manufacturing · Sole developer (software half of a two-firm bid)
A noodle plant weighed every pack and did nothing with the readings. Captured them off the serial ports into control charts the line operators watch.
What was wrong
An operator measuring aerospace fasteners had to read a digital probe, then look up the gauge block whose head angle matched and whose diameter range bracketed the measurement in a table, and compute the preset by hand.
What I built
Reads the probe over USB, searches the gauge-block catalogue, computes the preset. Rebuilt the interface around the client's own engineering drawings so the fixture redraws at true proportions as the operator types, instead of making them read a table.
What happened
Deployed and running at Alcoa and Allfast, and still in use years after I handed it over.