Jacob Morrise, Principal
One Engineer, Accountable
Morrise Products is a single-principal practice. The person you talk to is the person doing the engineering.
Nearly twenty years of product design — the kind that ends in a physical object, made in quantity, sold to someone who expects it to work.
That work covers the full span: early concept, mechanical design, design for manufacture, tooling specification, and the vendor back-and-forth that turns a drawing package into production parts. It also includes products of my own — invented, patented, tooled, and manufactured in‑house — which is a different kind of education than doing it on someone else’s budget.
The second practice grew out of the first. Once you have seen enough parts fail on the line, you can read a failed part in evidence and say something useful about why. That is the expert witness work: applying manufacturing experience to the question of what actually went wrong.
Both practices run out of Lehi, Utah, and both are handled personally. No account manager, no handoff to a junior team.
How I Work
Manufacturability Is a Design Decision, Not a Later Problem
The cost of a part is mostly fixed by the time the geometry is settled. Deferring that conversation to the tooling stage is how projects lose their margin.
Prototype the Risk, Not the Product
Build the part of it you are least sure about. A beautiful full prototype that avoids the hard question has told you nothing.
Say When It Should Not Be Built
Some products cannot be made at the price they need to sell for. That answer is worth more early than a year of engineering that arrives at it slowly.