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AMP

Powering team CAD sharing and facilities design review for the world’s most advanced recycling robotics platform.

Read this whitepaper to learn how AMP leveraged Five Flute to share CAD, streamline collaboration and deliver a better finished product to their customers.

Customer OverviewAMP Smart Sortation™ is waste sortation’s permanent solution. As the leader in AI-powered sortation, AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. The AMP engineering team designs bespoke recycling automation systems that leverage computer vision and AI to sort recycled materials and capture more value. It’s a very tough engineering problems that crosses so many disciplines; mechanical, electrical, optical, software, firmware AI, computer vision and more.
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AMP
AMPAMP Smart Sortation™ is waste sortation’s permanent solution.ampsortation.com
Founded2015
Engineering with Five Flute since2024
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Why Five Flute?For the AMP team, collaboration is a critical component of the design process. Because each customer operates a unique facility, the team at AMP must adapt a suite of standard modules to work within the layout of the customer facility. At AMP this process is owned by their team of facilities design engineers. To deliver a great product, facilities design engineers like Bobby McKenna need to make sure that everyone in the project understands the implications of the design on the operation of the customer recycling facility. Before Five Flute, this process was driven primarily by building extensive slide decks with a series of annotated screenshots. The AMP team would prepare these decks and use them to drive meetings where stakeholder feedback would be captured. Needless to say it required a huge amount of work to communicate the details of the design to everyone impacted. Folks outside of the core engineering team never had access to the top level CAD model so sharing context and communicating about detailed design issues was cumbersome and confusing.
How does AMP use Five Flute?The AMP team uses Five Flute as a drop in replacement for their old slide deck based review process. The facilities design team can share the top level CAD model with internal and external stakeholders and capture feedback asynchronously. This enabled their entire development team to get up and running with full facility design reviews in under one week. By week three, Five Flute was already an essential part of their design process that unlocked a new level of participation and development velocity.
How does Five Flute help?4 months into their adoption of Five Flute, the speed of AMP’s design review process has increased by 100%. The team has uploaded and reviewed 30 assemblies, averaging only 1.6 work days between design reviews. This is what rapid iteration looks like! On top of that, the review preparation and meeting time has been reduced drastically. Here’s what senior facilities design engineer Bobby McKenna has to say about Five Flute.
Bobby McKenna
Bobby McKennaSenior Facilities Design Engineer
“Before Five Flute, we made a series of presentation documents that took days to put together, with most project work being done by our Senior Engineering Project Manager (EPM). With Five Flute we’re able to just drop a link and everyone on our design team has access to a measurable desktop ready version of our system. Not only has this sped up our design review process, but also allows more people to have access to the master model and check additional design elements.

My favorite part of Five Flute is the reduction of wasted time. Before it would take almost two weeks for myself and an EPM to put together a Pre-Proposal Draft Review. I now have this entire process including the work down to about 3-4 days and do not rely on any time from the EPM.”