My family has worked in manufacturing for three generations. My grandfather ran a process equipment factory. My father runs a paper mill. I grew up watching things get made, and seeing how much time went into resolving the gap between what was specified and what was built.
We started HERA to help close that gap.
Manufacturing depends on custom work
The machines behind everyday products are often built for a particular job. A pressure vessel, a conveyor, or a piece of tooling may have its own design, specification, and production plan.
This is the work we care about: manufacturing where each order brings a new set of requirements.
Requirements need to survive each handoff
A requirement becomes a design, a drawing, a production plan, and eventually a part. At each step, details can be missed or interpreted differently. The result can be rework, scrap, or delays.
We want to make those requirements easier to check and carry through the process.
Experience should stay with the team
Experienced engineers and shop teams know where problems are likely to appear. Much of that knowledge lives in review comments, past jobs, and conversations. HERA retains review decisions and accepted deviations so teams can refer to them across revisions.
From requirements to finished parts
Our longer-term ambition is to connect engineering software with our manufacturing network, from a customer’s requirements to a finished part. Our families’ experience running factories shapes how we approach that work.
We start with drawings
Drawings carry the dimensions, tolerances, materials, and instructions that guide production and inspection. HERA checks them against applicable standards and specifications, with findings engineers can trace to the source.
Review is where we learn
Review brings together requirements, engineering judgment, and feedback from production. We work with manufacturing teams to understand what HERA gets right, where it falls short, and what to improve next.
Meera Patel
Co-founder, HERA