## Case Studies

Learn how Instrumental improves quality, reduces time to market, and adds to the bottom line

Instrumental saved us **900+ engineering weeks**, a core metric for Meta, unlocking capacity across our hardware and software teams.

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Steve McClure  
Senior Director of Hardware Engineering, Reality Labs  
Meta

## [Instrumental Taps AI and Accelerated Computing to Speed Server Production With NVIDIA](/content/case-studies/instrumental-accelerates-nvidia-final-system-builds-by-14-days/index.html)

NVIDIA leverages Instrumental's manufacturing AI platform to accelerate server production and maintain quality at scale

[Read the case study](/content/case-studies/instrumental-accelerates-nvidia-final-system-builds-by-14-days/index.html)

## [Toast achieves 5.3X ROI by using Instrumental’s AI to identify product defects earlier in development](/content/case-studies/toast-achieves-5-3x-roi-using-instrumental/index.html)

Toast uses Instrumental to maintain restaurant-grade hardware quality while accelerating product development.

[Read the case study](/content/case-studies/toast-achieves-5-3x-roi-using-instrumental/index.html)

## [Meta accelerates NPI and saves over 900 engineering weeks across 7 programs](/content/case-studies/meta-saves-900-engineering-weeks/index.html)

Meta has an ambitious vision for AR and VR and has hired the best and brightest engineers to work on...

[Read the case study](/content/case-studies/meta-saves-900-engineering-weeks/index.html)

# Customer Testimonials

See what our customers are saying about us

**From idea to MP in 11 months**, could not have done this without Instrumental!

David Kalinowski  
Head of Hardware  
Opal Camera

**Without Instrumental**, fixing the issue and delivering customer satisfaction would have been **slower, harder, and more expensive**.

Burc Sahinoglu  
Chief Technology Officer  
Owlet

Nobody provides the contextualization and user experience that Instrumental has developed. This is the **holy grail of data correlation.**

Mike  
Director of Operations  
L3Harris

Within a few weeks, we discovered the root cause of an issue — and we figured it out right from our own desks. **This was a game-changer** that will help us deliver the best possible product to our customers.

Mike Schuetz  
Manufacturing Engineering Manager,  
owlet

Instrumental **reduces the number of experimental builds** needed to validate our products during development.

Dave Konczal  
Director of NPI  
MOTOROLA MOBILITY

The Instrumental System built a virtual library of evidence. **Instead of worrying what we were missing, we could identify early issues and prevent quality gaps**.

Justin  
Operations Manager,  
IoT Company

Instrumental **enables you to work smarter**. Instead of doing disassembly, you can spend your time solving problems.

Wayne Morrison  
Principal Staff Mechanical Engineer,  
MOTOROLA MOBILITY

[Failure Analysis] is normally something I’d only be able to do on-site, I’d have to actually fly there, and **this lets me do** that remotely which is very important to us.

Principle Applications Scientist  
P2I

This would not have been possible without Instrumental’s visual data – **we saved many man hours and time in China**.

David Platner  
Mechanical Engineer,  
MOTOROLA MOBILITY

I had heard anecdotal evidence that parts were biased, but when I quickly flipped through 20 images I thought: **wow, there’s tons of variation and we need to be paying attention**.

Claire  
Mechanical Engineer,  
Fortune 500 Company

Instrumental saved us **900+ engineering weeks**, a core metric for Meta, unlocking capacity across our hardware and software teams.

Steve McClure  
Senior Director of Hardware Engineering, Reality Labs  
Meta

By using Instrumental, it was like being at the factories. **The transparency Instrumental provided resulted in more prompt attention and a higher level of care for our line**, putting us on the same level of priority as other customers with higher volume.

Bill Maginn  
Operations Engineering | Manufacturing | NPI Leader Manager,  
AXON

[Instrumental] **transformed us to the next level of product**. These are new capabilities we don’t have.

US Defense Prime  
VP of Manufacturing Technologies  
$15B Mission-Critical Electronics Leader

Open access to data and quick identification of the failure mode allowed us to **cut nearly four weeks off our project schedule**.

Chris Fisher  
Senior Test and Quality Manager,  
PUFFCO

We **rely heavily on Instrumental** to make sure that what happens is what is meant to happen.

Principle Applications Scientist  
P2I

**Programs that used Instrumental during development ramped faster** than products that did not use it.

Lyon Wang  
Director of Engineering & NPI,  
MOTOROLA MOBILITY

Without Instrumental, we wouldn’t have **gained the visibility and data** to make the case for investment in this process improvement as quickly. We were able to enact a process change using robotics to prevent downstream reliability issues.

Bill Maginn  
Operations Engineering | Manufacturing | NPI Leader Manager,  
AXON

Instrumental helped us quickly identify major impacts to our units and gave us data to back up what to do next.

Chris Fisher  
Senior Test and Quality Manager,  
PUFFCO

I felt that Instrumental got what we were doing and why our mission is so important to us. Throughout the process, they actively helped us solve immediate problems and they’re committed to evolving their platform to further support our needs. **We had a great two-way synergy with the Instrumental team and that’s why we’re getting ready to use Instrumental again on a new product.**

Bill Maginn  
Operations Engineering | Manufacturing | NPI Leader Manager,  
AXON

I used to visit our factory 7 times a year for 2-3 weeks at a time — that’s spending nearly half of my year overseas. Now **Instrumental gives me remote oversight and does a tremendous job helping our team save time on inspection and assembly**.

John  
Hardware Quality Engineer ,
Fortune 500 Company
