Case Study: Pratt Miller Engineering achieves rapid process adaptation and traceability with Tulip

Pratt Miller Engineering Gains Competitive Edge with Rapid Process Adaptation

Pratt Miller Engineering, an Oshkosh Corporation business in aerospace and defense, needed a better way to manage complex, high-precision builds as it moved through prototyping and low-rate initial production into full-scale manufacturing. Before Tulip, the company relied heavily on paper, Excel, and handwritten notes, which caused data integrity problems, poor traceability, and time-consuming errors in serial number and inventory tracking.

Using Tulip’s composable manufacturing platform, Pratt Miller Engineering digitized work instructions, connected work orders to its ERP-fed data warehouse, added barcode and QR-code traceability, embedded quality checks, and built an inventory app for government-owned parts. The result was far less manual entry and rework, stronger end-to-end traceability, and faster adaptation to engineering and customer changes—helping Pratt Miller Engineering win bids and scale production more efficiently with Tulip.

Pratt Miller Engineering

Dan Huffer

Vice President of Manufacturing