Conjugate Engineering

The Conjugate Approach

Conjugate | In Mechanics

The mathematical principle in which two interacting surfaces maintain a constant angular velocity ratio as they roll against one another.

Conjugate | In Language

To derive useful meaning from a common root — efficiently adapting form to match tense.

Conjugate | In Practice

A strong foundational methodology — the right tools and processes adapt efficiently as programs evolve through a foundation built on conjugate engineering. We build the foundation.

What We Do

Design & Analysis

Complete Drivetrain Systems

Full-scope drivetrain design from concept through system analysis, manufacturing prints & engineering documentation.

Custom Solutions Solutions designed to maximize performance in demanding applications and environments.

Component and Sub-System Design

Custom or tailored to your specs — providing the interfaces & manufacturing prints you need to integrate into your system.

Tailored Solutions Tune our pre-developed systems & sub-assemblies to streamline program timing and cost.

System Analysis & Development

We analyze your design using internally developed models alongside state-of-the-art industry tools, providing detailed engineering reports and next-step recommendations.

Engineering Services

Market Entry Strategies

For companies translating existing capabilities to new or adjacent sectors, we assess your operational targets to identify core strengths, technical gaps, and process outliers. We then build a roadmap designed to leverage your competitive advantages, bridge capability gaps, and eliminate inefficiencies that drive unnecessary costs.

DFM & Manufacturing Support

Producing precision components and assemblies cost-effectively at scale is challenging. We help you specify the right tools and processes for your designs to enable robust production for both internal and contract manufacturing.

Knowledge Transfer & Learning

Small group, 1-to-2 day workshops. Topics include Basic to Advanced Gear Design, Drivetrain Design and Analysis, and Conjugate Product Development — integrating tools and methods to design with intent and execute with precision and pace.

Internal Developments

Platform Developments | Mobility

Named inventors on a combined ~50 Patents (granted + pending), we’re accelerating internal developments that align with the next product cycles in the mobility space.

Transmission & Driveline architectures designed from the components up, maximizing commonality between combustion engine, hybrid, and electric powertrains.

Platform Developments | Robotics

While the sector is new, unique, and rapidly expanding, the barriers of scaling precision hardware components aren’t. We’re developing drivetrain components and sub-systems which focus on interface modularity to optimize development time and cost but maintain flexibility to integrate into our customers’ in-house systems.

AI Workflow & Integration

A realistic, road-mapped approach to integrating AI into transmission and drivetrain engineering workflows. One rooted in common sense that has small benefits today but may compound as the technology matures. Not overwhelming; not integrating AI models for the sake of it; but a structured path from current-state to an organization that thinks faster and executes with rigor.

About

Drive systems are one of the few areas of mechanical engineering where the physics are unforgiving, tolerances multiply, and the gap between a working design and a well-optimized one is genuinely large.

Conjugate Engineering is a small technical firm — deliberately so, structured to close that gap. We take on a focused set of engagements at a time, giving our projects the attention they deserve so the result is one we’re all proud of.

Our work is concentrated in drivetrain, transmission, and actuation systems design — areas where precision matters and early decisions compound. From ground-up system design to component refinement, from program target setting to production support — we know where programs typically succeed or run into trouble and have designed our tools and methodologies true to our name.

We’re built for speed, precision, and flexibility — as a primary design resource, an extension of an existing team, or a technical check on work already in progress. What we bring isn’t just technical depth. It’s the judgment that comes from running these programs inside large organizations, under real constraints, and knowing where the hidden risks and opportunities tend to live.