Stop letting paperwork slow down your spindles.

I help small-to-medium defense contractors and job shops plug schedule leaks, pass rigorous audits, and accelerate their government cash flow, without the administrative theater.

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If your QMS only exists on paper, you're bleeding time and money.

Most job shops run into the same invisible bottlenecks that destroy lead times, tank margins, and cause friction with auditors.

Do any of these sound familiar?

  • The Thermal Trap: Measuring warm parts straight off the mill because the schedule is tight, only to watch them shrink out of spec once they stabilize.

  • The “Ask Dave” Loop: Production grinding to a halt because a machine threw an error code and only one veteran operator knows the unwritten trick to bypass it.

  • The Billing Bottleneck: Having hundreds of thousands in progress payments locked in a bureaucratic review loop because of minor documentation gaps.

  • The PAR (Post Award Request) Black Hole: Ambiguous Technical Data Package requirements forcing stop-works while you wait weeks on the buying command, with zero schedule relief on the back end.

How I Can Help You

Kill the "Perfect World" Fallacy

I audit your physical floor flow, build realistic friction buffers, and eliminate self-inflicted schedule leaks to protect your delivery baseline.

Floor-Reality Quality Systems

I bridge the gap between dry AS9100/ISO9001 clauses and physical machine shop reality so your operators actually follow the processes.

Accelerate Progress Payments

I pre-audit your Performance  Based Payments/Progress Payment submissions and structure your billing milestones helping you get paid faster.

I speak machinist and mechanical honesty, not bureaucrat.

My name is Eric Snow. I’ve  worked for the United States Air Force performing First Article Inspection and Product Lot Testing as well as an Industrial Specialist for the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). I spent my days conducting physical surveillance, tracking delivery schedules, and reviewing contractor performance.

I see firsthand why shops fail audits, why deliveries slip, why parts fail inspection, and why progress payments get delayed.

I’m also a gearhead who respects old iron and practical shop-floor physics. I don’t believe in heavy, 80-page compliance binders that sit on a shelf gathering dust. I believe in Mechanical Honesty. That’s about aligning your documentation with the physical reality of your machines and the tribal knowledge of your operators.

When you work with me, you don’t get abstract consulting theory. You get practical, actionable strategies to keep your shop compliant, profitable, and running at maximum velocity.

Let's find your floor's biggest bottleneck.

You don’t need to commit to a massive, expensive consulting package to start moving the needle. Let’s start with a low-pressure conversation.

On a free, 15-minute Shop Floor Triage Call, we will:

1. Pinpoint the single biggest schedule or documentation leak currently hitting your shop.

2.Give you concrete, physical adjustments you can make on your floor next week to plug it.

No sales pitch. Just direct, shop-floor diagnostic talk.

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Phone

(801) 580-4549

Email

snow.eric.d@gmail.com