FreedomDev delivers enterprise-grade custom software development Detroit businesses rely on to transform operations and compete in a digital-first economy.
FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and works with clients remotely across the United States.
Detroit’s automotive supply chain runs on massive volumes of EDI transactions across the Big Three and their Tier-1 suppliers, yet many shops still run legacy MRP systems written decades ago. FreedomDev modernizes those stacks with cloud-native replacements designed to dramatically shorten order-to-cash cycles.
FreedomDev serves Detroit-area automotive, logistics, and manufacturing clients remotely from our Zeeland, Michigan headquarters, delivering production systems designed to replace legacy MRP and SAP add-ons with modern, cloud-native alternatives.
Our engineers hold relevant AWS or Azure certifications, our project managers hold PMP or CSM credentials, and our QA leads hold ISTQB Foundation certification, giving us the technical depth to understand the compliance regimes that govern Michigan manufacturing.
Unlike offshore brokers, we assign two senior engineers to your project full-time for the first four sprints. Working closely with your team over video and shared telemetry dashboards, we track real production data including takt times to identify and eliminate hidden sources of downtime.
Many Detroit-area tooling shops still exchange 2-D PDF drawings with suppliers. We build tools like STEP-to-JSON converters that let teams share live 3-D models in a web browser, reducing engineering rework. The IP stays yours, hosted on reliable cloud infrastructure.
We write new systems on modern stacks like .NET, Angular, and SQL Server. When we inherit a Visual FoxPro or VB6 codebase, we containerize it first, then refactor feature-by-feature behind a strong automated test suite to minimize risk during large-scale legacy conversions.
Our engagement model is fixed-price per milestone. A typical 6-month project breaks into five deliverables: discovery, MVP, pilot UAT, production cut-over, and warranty, with transparent change-order pricing designed to keep projects on budget.
Compared to hiring a full in-house team at competitive Detroit-market salaries, a FreedomDev squad provides senior-level engineering, DevOps, and QA coverage at a predictable monthly cost, with transparent delivery-based billing.
Every engagement ends with a knowledge-transfer workshop. We hand over Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, IaC scripts, and detailed documentation so your staff can build, test, and deploy independently.
Tell us what is happening, what systems are involved, and what you are trying to improve. We'll help determine a practical next step.
It auto-generates control plans, Gage R&R forms, and PSW packets with digital signatures that meet eQMS requirements, helping clients pass customer audits faster with fewer PPAP package errors.
We connect to Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Omron PLCs via OPC-UA and publish data to Kafka topics at low latency. A dashboard built with SignalR shows OEE, reject rate, and Andon status on shop-floor displays, helping plants expose and eliminate hidden micro-stops.
Detroit suppliers still live or die by EDI. Our engine translates ANSI X12 to JSON and syncs with cloud ERPs using predefined maps, with built-in ACK validation and 997 resend logic designed to reduce charge-backs and manual reconciliation work.
We containerize legacy modules into .NET 8 APIs and deploy via AKS with blue-green releases. Horizontal pod autoscaler helps keep latency low even during demand spikes, and serverless KEDA scaling can significantly reduce infrastructure spend versus always-on VMs.
Using Azure Cognitive Services, we analyze vibration, temperature, and current signatures to predict bearing failure in advance. The model runs on edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson) and sends MQTT alerts to Teams, helping reduce unplanned downtime and lost revenue.
We implement layered security controls, including TLS 1.3, AES-256 encryption, and HSM-backed code signing, along with detailed audit logging. We recommend regular third-party penetration testing and rapid remediation of any findings to help maintain a strong security posture for automotive suppliers.
Our retention rate went from 55% to 77%. Teacher retention has been 100% for three years. I don't know if we'd exist the way we do now without FreedomDev.
Parallel CAD-ERP integration shortens tooling approval from 12 weeks to 5 weeks, letting you lock BOMs before tooling steel is cut.
Blue-green releases and feature flags keep plant systems running even during weekly updates; no lost production minutes.
End-to-end traceability from heat number to VIN lets you isolate suspect lots within 30 min instead of days, slashing recall exposure.
Pay per transaction, not per server. Our serverless stack auto-scales from 10 to 10 k EDI docs/min without pre-paid capacity.
Hire from our apprenticeship program with local universities; many participants convert to full-time roles, cutting recruiter fees and retaining institutional knowledge.
Built-in IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 checklists mean you walk into customer audits confident, with evidence already validated.
We spend two days in remote working sessions with operators, measuring takt time, logging Andon pulls, and capturing hidden rework loops. A value-stream map highlights where software can eliminate waste before we write a single spec.
Against OEM standards (QSB+, Q1, SQMS) we score your current system in 42 categories. A heat-map shows gaps that could trigger a customer concern, and we prioritize user stories to close those gaps first, reducing audit risk.
We select micro-services boundaries based on bounded contexts (inventory, scheduling, shipping) and design an event-driven bus using Azure Service Bus. API contracts are frozen before sprint 1, preventing costly interface churn later.
Legacy tables are extracted via SSIS and transformed to the new schema while production keeps running. We run nightly reconciliation scripts; variance >0.01 % triggers an auto-email so data integrity is provable before cut-over.
We hand over repos, IaC scripts, and a 40-page run-book, then shadow your staff for 30 days. Warranty covers unlimited bug fixes at no cost; enhancements are prepaid in story-point buckets that roll over quarterly.
Detroit’s automotive supply chain operates on tight tolerances and short takt times; a software partner needs to understand shop-floor realities to build systems that actually fit how operators work. Our engineers are trained to speak GD&T and Andon fluently.
Michigan OEMs issue frequent engineering changes, often via PDF. Our cloud-based ECM system converts those PDFs into structured BOM deltas and pushes them to your MES quickly, helping operators always work from the latest revision and reducing scrap from outdated drawings.
We maintain a living requirements matrix that maps every clause to user stories and test cases, so when standards like QSB+ add new cybersecurity controls, we can update our templates and roll changes out to clients quickly.
Low-latency connectivity to major cloud regions lets us run real-time digital twins without edge servers, streaming press and machine cycle data into dashboards like Power BI to help engineers spot anomalies before failures occur.
Michigan winters play havoc with plant networks. We spec industrial Wi-Fi 6E with 4G fail-over and battery-backed, cold-rated switches to help keep production networks resilient through severe weather.
Detroit’s workforce is unionized and proud; software projects fail when IT ignores established change-process rules. We design our engagement process to respect training requirements, overtime rules, and escalation paths, and to involve operators directly in HMI design.
Local economic incentive programs can help offset project costs; we can help clients understand what may be available to them.
FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and works with clients remotely across the United States.
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We speak APQP, PPAP, and IATF because we’ve lived it—no learning curve on your dime.
Budget certainty; if we under-estimate, the overage is on us, not your cap-ex.
Your data lives in a private AKS cluster; no commingling, no co-tenancy risk, with TISAX-aligned security practices.
A dedicated engineering team on call for fast remote emergency support, union-aware, winter-hardened.
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