FreedomDev delivers tailored business consulting services across Michigan, helping organizations in automotive, manufacturing, and tech industries achieve measurable results through strategic expertise.
FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and works with clients remotely across the United States.
Michigan hosts thousands of manufacturing establishments—second only to California—yet many still run production schedules on spreadsheets. Our consultants have converted legacy job shops into real-time, IoT-driven operations that help cut overtime.
We do not arrive with slide decks. Our teams get hands-on fast—diagnosing systems, building live visibility into financial and operational data, and helping ownership make confident, data-backed decisions on capital investment.
Our engagements start with a fixed-price, two-week Discovery that maps every dollar of margin leakage—typically found in change-order slippage, inventory carrying cost, and overtime premiums.
FreedomDev is vendor-agnostic. We've helped clients right-size cloud infrastructure spend by identifying over-provisioned workloads. The same rigor applies whether you need MES selection, CRM consolidation, or an AI-driven demand-planning layer.
We embed in your plant, not a downtown office.
Every recommendation is modeled in a digital twin before you spend a dime. We simulate capacity scenarios to show clients the real payback math before committing capital to an expansion.
We finance transformation through state incentives most CFOs miss.
Post-implementation, we do not walk away. We stay engaged to make sure the changes stick.
That longevity translates into institutional memory—when your new operations manager wants to know why a past initiative stalled, we help you find the answer using the documentation and history we've built together.
You will work with people who have personally filed PFEPs, balanced takt boards, and closed the books on SAP S/4HANA.
We publish our wins and our scars. Read [our case studies](/case-studies) to see how we've helped Michigan businesses reduce cash-to-cash cycle time and eliminate double data entry through custom integrations.
If you are a Michigan manufacturer or distributor feeling margin pressure, [contact us](/contact) for a half-day executive workshop. You will leave with a one-page value map and a prioritized 90-day action plan—no obligation, no NDA required.
Tell us what is happening, what systems are involved, and what you are trying to improve. We'll help determine a practical next step.
We shadow every work center for two shifts, capturing OEE down to the minute, uncovering hidden micro-stoppages that time-studies reveal and low-cost fixes can resolve.
Before capital purchases, we model your entire value stream using industry-standard simulation software. This kind of analysis helps clients avoid costly mis-investments by testing bottleneck scenarios before committing capital.
Our dedicated analyst tracks MEDC, SBA, and local millage programs daily, helping Michigan manufacturers secure meaningful training grants and upskill their workforce on modern equipment and automation.
We score every ERP, MES, CRM, or WMS platform against weighted criteria unique to your KPIs, helping clients avoid costly over-scoped implementations by identifying solutions that deliver the functionality they actually need at a fraction of the cost.
When manufacturers hit a liquidity wall, we implement 13-week cash forecasting, renegotiate input costs, and reduce work-in-process inventory to help restore positive cash flow and secure better financing terms.
When manufacturers complete an acquisition, we help harmonize the chart-of-accounts, consolidate banking, and migrate legacy production data into a unified ERP instance, planning the cutover carefully to avoid customer line-down events during the transition.
FreedomDev definitely set the bar a lot higher. I don't think we would have been able to implement that ERP without them filling these gaps.
Clients recover meaningful margin in the first year—cash that funds further digital initiatives without external borrowing.
Role-based dashboards deliver daily P&L by work center, shrinking month-end close time and enabling more frequent pricing adjustments tied to commodity surcharges.
Digital-twin validation helps eliminate unnecessary “wish-list” equipment purchases, ensuring every dollar of cap-ex has a verified payback.
Access to interest-free capital via Michigan state grants and training credits—effectively lowering your project hurdle rate.
Your team absorbs Lean, Six-Sigma, and cloud skills during the project, helping raise internal promotion rates and cut recruiter fees.
A four-hour virtual session with C-suite to define value leaks, set quantified targets, and select internal champions. You leave with a one-page dashboard mock-up and a 90-day roadmap.
We pull five years of financial, production, and labor data into our analytics lake within 72 hours. Engineers conduct time-studies and spaghetti-map every workflow to expose hidden constraints.
Opportunities are stress-tested under demand volatility, labor absenteeism, and commodity price shocks. You receive an ROI heat-map that ranks projects by payback, risk, and capex intensity.
Our grant analyst prewrites incentive packages while we negotiate software licensing on your behalf, often securing meaningful discounts by leveraging vendor relationships and competitive alternatives.
Using Agile sprints, we configure systems, migrate data, and run parallel testing. Every Friday we host a lunch-and-learn so your staff can repeat configurations without us.
After go-live, we monitor KPIs for 24 months.
Michigan’s economic bedrock is its manufacturing workforce—the largest share of any state’s economy.
The state’s manufacturing GDP tops $104 B, and margins vary widely by subsector. Our consultants benchmark Michigan metrics against Ohio, Indiana, and global peers so you know if a gain is world-class or merely playing catch-up.
Our consultants stay closely connected to Michigan’s manufacturing community and maintain strong working relationships with state economic-development resources, helping incentive packages move efficiently through the review process.
We code, configure, and coach alongside your team remotely, including emergency support when critical equipment issues threaten production.
Michigan weather is brutal on supply chains. Your coastal consulting firm cannot simulate lake-effect snow.
We build long-term relationships with our Michigan clients. That relationship depth means we do not need a month to learn your tribal knowledge—we've helped build it with you.
FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and works with clients remotely across the United States.
Talk with an experienced member of our team about your situation.
We understand takt time, heat-treat cycles, and why a 0.0002-inch bore tolerance can scrap a $9 k axle housing.
We have a strong track record of success with submitted Michigan grant applications, translating into real cash that competitors leave on the table.
No change-order creep. Once we scope your project, price is locked unless scope changes, so your board can budget with confidence.
We do not resell software or hardware, so our only incentive is your ROI. That is why we've advised clients against costly ERP upgrades when patching existing workflows delivered the same result for a fraction of the cost.
We know that hyper-local factors—like which municipality or zoning district a facility sits in—can mean significant differences in available property-tax abatements. Hyper-local insight matters.
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