These articles capture my approach to leadership, scalability, operational clarity, and design-team performance. They document the tools, insights, and systems I’ve developed while helping design teams reduce errors, cut bottlenecks, and increase throughput.

This writing represents my foundation as a leader who values data, people, process refinement, and innovation.

Advanced Mechanical Design & Rapid Prototyping (SolidWorks)
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

Advanced Mechanical Design & Rapid Prototyping (SolidWorks)

With over 10 years of experience in SolidWorks, I’ve designed and delivered fabrication-ready mechanical systems focused on rapid prototyping, steel weldments, and standardized model libraries. My work includes conveyor and food-handling systems, multi-story mezzanines, and modular components, often integrating new equipment into active production lines through on-site evaluation and close collaboration with fabrication and machining vendors.

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Smartsheet: Turning Quoting-to-Install Data Into a Strategic Asset
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

Smartsheet: Turning Quoting-to-Install Data Into a Strategic Asset

I built a Smartsheet-based project management platform that captured data from quoting through installation, transforming everyday project inputs into a powerful forecasting tool. By structuring data correctly and automating its derivation, the system revealed critical misalignments between assumed budgets, stated productivity goals, and real-world performance—enabling leadership to plan with clarity instead of intuition.

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Change Management — Hourly Time Tracking System
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

Change Management — Hourly Time Tracking System

From Manual Time Logs to Operational Clarity

I designed and implemented a standardized, dashboard-driven time tracking system that transformed how leadership understood designer workload. Previously, time reporting was manual, inconsistent, and limited to total hours worked—offering no visibility into task types, job categories, or internal overhead. The new system captured time at the task level (wall vs. truss design, quotes vs. production, internal work) while remaining simple for designers to use. Within one week, the entire team adopted the tool, eliminating manual reporting and unlocking clear insights into capacity, bottlenecks, and process inefficiencies—enabling data-driven conversations between designers and leadership for the first time.

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Product Management Case Study
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

Product Management Case Study

Led early-stage product ownership for a mixed reality support platform designed to enhance customer operation and service of industrial food-processing X-ray machines. Owned the product charter, rollout planning, and cross-functional execution, coordinating technicians, software development, and hardware reviews to translate real-world service needs into a hands-free digital experience. Built and managed the full delivery framework in Smartsheet, facilitated weekly stakeholder reviews, and served as the primary bridge between end users and engineering. While the product did not reach full market launch during my tenure, the project provided deep hands-on experience in hardware/software product discovery, requirements definition, and delivery under ambiguity.

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ISN Certification Program — Project Leadership & ROI Analysis
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

ISN Certification Program — Project Leadership & ROI Analysis

Led ABM Equipment’s ISN Certification initiative end-to-end, translating external compliance requirements into a structured, executable project plan. Built a 50+ task workflow, managed documentation and costs, and delivered an ROI model showing certification payback in approximately four months—reframing compliance as a strategic revenue enabler.

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Knowledge Systems & Standards Development:
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

Knowledge Systems & Standards Development:

How I built a centralized Knowledge System that unified our design standards, workflows, and technical resources into one accessible source of truth. This streamlined onboarding, improved consistency, and gave the team a scalable framework for collaboration and growth.

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Workflow Mapping & Operational Clarity:
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

Workflow Mapping & Operational Clarity:

Mapping the full workflow revealed a hard truth: our “8-hour” design process required 16 hours of real work. That insight exposed hidden tasks, clarified bottlenecks, and gave leadership the operational visibility needed to make meaningful changes.

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KPI Dev. & Capacity Tracking:
Joshua Baugh Joshua Baugh

KPI Dev. & Capacity Tracking:

A unified KPI system revealed true cycle times, risks, and capacity, enabling leadership to shift from reactive decisions to proactive planning.

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