Reading the Drawings
Schematics, ladder logic and wiring diagrams. How to follow a circuit on paper and then find it in the panel.
Joint Innovation Group
Problem Solving With Collaborative Minds for Engineered Brilliance.
We're a group of engineers who work the technical problems other firms hand back. That means failing equipment, control systems that don't behave, and processes nobody has written down. We also build the software and sites that carry a company forward once those problems are solved.
- One team
- Engineering and software together
- Documented
- Drawings and data left behind
- Fixed price
- Quoted before we start
What we do
Collaborative Minds Equal Capable Results
Most firms do the hardware or the software. The work that comes to us usually sits where the two meet, and it is the same people on both sides of that line. The fourth row is what holds the other three together on a real job.
How we work
From Two Days Onsite to a System You Keep
There is no minimum engagement and no fixed shape to this. Some jobs are a plane ticket and a meter. Some are a year of design work. Tell us the problem and we will tell you the smallest version of the answer that actually solves it.
A Second Opinion
A review of somebody else's design, quote or failure report before you commit to it. Usually an afternoon of work.
Onsite Troubleshooting
Short-notice travel to your floor when something is down or behaving strangely. We bring instruments and leave a written account of what was found.
Failure Analysis
For equipment that keeps failing while everyone disagrees about why. We instrument it, capture the conditions at failure, and write up what the data shows.
Quality Control and Inspection
Inspection plans, hold points, in-process checks and final acceptance, with records that still mean something a year later. Incoming inspection on parts, panel and assembly checkout against the drawing, and punch lists that get closed.
Process Documentation
Writing down how the work gets done, then fixing the parts that only survive because one person remembers them. Work instructions, travelers, checklists, standard forms, and the training to go with them.
System and Equipment Design
Controls, panels and electrical design built around your process, carried through commissioning, with drawings that survive the field.
Retrofits and Integration
Getting equipment from three vendors to behave as one system, and bringing older equipment onto something a person can still support in five years.
Software and Tools
Calculators for the work an engineer redoes by hand, replacements for the spreadsheets that quietly run a process, dashboards over your own data, and websites.
Project Management
Scope, schedule, vendors, submittals, long-lead items and the weekly call. Useful when a project crosses three trades and nobody owns the whole of it.
Training
Electrical Classes, by Request
Sessions for the people who have to work on the equipment after we leave, built around your units and your crew's experience level.
What's in the Panel
Contactors, relays, overloads, transformers, disconnects: what each device does, why it's there, and how it fails.
VFDs and EC Motors
Setup, parameters, the settings that matter, and the handful of faults that account for most of the calls.
Troubleshooting Method
Meter technique, safe practice around energized equipment, and a repeatable way to isolate a fault instead of guessing.
Startup and Commissioning
Working through a startup the way it should be documented, so the next person can follow what was done.
Your Equipment
Training written against your own units and your own drawings, including the quirks your crew already argues about.
- Format
- Half-day, full-day, or a short series
- Where
- On your floor, in your conference room, or over video
- Who for
- Maintenance, assembly, field service, junior engineers
- Group size
- Best under twelve, so people can get hands on
Classes are scheduled by request rather than run on a calendar. Tell us what your crew needs to be able to do, and we'll build the session around it.
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How We Work
No retainers to get a quote, no discovery phase that bills for itself. Tell us what the problem is and we'll tell you what it costs to solve.
Scope Call
Thirty minutes on what you need, what it has to do, and when. Free.
Written Proposal
A fixed price with options, in writing, so you know the number before anyone starts. No hourly surprises.
Build
You see progress as it happens. Changes in scope become a written change order before the work starts.
Deliver
Tested, documented, and handed over with the keys: drawings, repo, hosting and test data. You own all of it.
After
Maintenance and support on terms agreed up front. We don't disappear once the invoice clears.
About
Who We Are
Joint Innovation Group is a tight team of multidisciplinary engineers who love tackling the complex problems other firms pass on.
We bridge the gap between hardware controls and software development, building custom industrial equipment where the stakes are high and field errors are costly. Because a single mistake can derail a project, we build everything to a strict standard with clear drawings, verified test data, and durable documentation.
We don't write software as a side project. We do it because hardware and software problems are inherently connected. Whether we are automating a repetitive calculation, mapping out an unwritten process, or building a professional web presence to prove your capabilities, we keep our controls and software experts in the exact same room. This integrated approach means nothing gets lost in translation.
Our favorite projects are the ones that require true troubleshooting, like chasing down an intermittent system failure or engineering a custom tool from scratch because nothing off the shelf works. We fix the issue, and then we document the solution completely so your team has a clear roadmap long after we are done.
What we cover
- Controls and electrical engineering
- Failure analysis and field investigation
- R&D test engineering and instrumentation
- Software, web and automation development
- Project management, quality control and process documentation
Led by
Jack Harrison
Founder / Principal Engineer
Controls and electrical engineer, and the person who reads every inquiry that comes through this site.
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Tell Us What You Are Up Against
Tell us what you're trying to build, fix, or get to the bottom of. Every inquiry is read by an engineer, and you'll hear back within a day.
Veteran owned and built. There is a discount for active duty and veterans, so say so when you get in touch.
- Working
- Working remotely nationwide · available for temporary travel