Built for the job a shop will not take.

If you want one real object, the usual choices are a shared shop or a production manufacturer. The shop means safety training, machine certification, CAM, a reservation, and a queue. The manufacturer is built for aerospace, medical, and companies that already order in volume.

A one-off part, a single adapter, three prototypes, or a startup's first version fits neither one. Andbru is a design studio that also makes the part. Design and production are the work. Engineering support — changing a model, building one, or a consultation — is a separate service.

CNC is one way we produce a part, not the company. The work is design and production: a model, a material, a prototype, then the next version.

The people who started Andbru come from engineering, industrial design, hardware development, automotive electronics, and software. We have waited on a shared shop machine. We have been quoted a number that made no sense for one part. This is the service we wanted then. We are in the Atlanta area.