Industrial Design · Los Angeles
Blueprintsbecomeparts.
Oaknel translates ambiguous ideas into the precise documentation a shop can quote against — and runs the floor until it ships.
Decisions made on paper, not on the shop floor.
Every part Oaknel ships starts as a precise, fully-dimensioned drawing. Tolerances locked, materials specified, GD&T resolved — so the shop quotes against the drawing, not against a phone call.
The work, mid-cycle
WE MAKE
REAL PARTS.
Not renderings, not pitch decks — finished hardware that holds tolerance, passes inspection and ships on schedule.
01
10+
Years aerospace experience
02
2014
Studio founded
03
6
Named clients
04
AS9100
Network capable
02 · CAPABILITIES
Four disciplines.One signal chain.
No hand-offs. The same engineer that shapes your concept is on the call with the machinist when the first chip flies.
Industrial Design
Form, fit and function — defined before a single part is cut. We translate ambiguous ideas into the precise documentation a shop can quote against.
- Concept sketches & ergonomic studies
- Photo-realistic renderings for stakeholders & investor decks
- Aesthetic CMF (color, material, finish) specification
- Design intent documentation for downstream engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Solid modeling, FEA, tolerance stacks. Designs that pass review on the first revision and survive testing on the second.
- Parametric CAD (SolidWorks, Creo, Fusion 360)
- Finite Element Analysis (static, modal, thermal)
- GD&T per ASME Y14.5 — drawings the shop trusts
- Tolerance-stack analysis & functional verification
Prototyping
Quick, cheap, real. Five iterations in two weeks beats one CAD review in two months.
- SLA / SLS / FDM 3D printing — same-day turn
- CNC machined prototypes from production-grade material
- Sheet-metal stamping & forming for proof-of-concept
- Functional testing rigs & iteration loops
Manufacturing
A bonded network of LA-area and offshore suppliers. We design for the machine that will build it, not the machine that already exists.
- Design for Manufacturability & Assembly (DFM/DFA)
- CNC milling & turning, EDM, stamping, tooling
- Supplier qualification & first-article inspection
- Pilot run → low-volume → scaled production
03 · METHOD
Six phases.One straight line.
Form, Fit, Function — defined up front, then never rediscovered. Every phase ships an artifact you can hold and a decision you can sign.
01
IDEA
Ideas
The first conversation. We listen without filtering — whether the brief is a napkin sketch or a 200-page spec, no idea is too small or too insane.
02
REQ
Requirements
We document and categorize the design into three buckets — Form, Fit, and Function — and lock the engineering constraints that downstream decisions will inherit.
03
SKT
Sketches
Hand sketches, parametric concept models, photo-realistic renderings. Cheap exploration first; commit only after the right path is obvious.
04
PRO
Prototyping
Print, machine, stamp. Test in hand. Revise. We assume the first prototype is wrong and budget for the third one to be right.
05
ENG
Engineering
FEA, tolerance stacks, DFM review. Every decision is optimized for the lowest unit cost at the required reliability — not the lowest CAD-cost.
06
MFG
Manufacturing
Supplier selection, tooling, first-article, ramp. Our LA network keeps short-lead-time work nearby; our offshore partners scale it.
04 · ROSTER
Programs thatleave the lab.
Tier-one primes, implantable-class OEMs, architectural water-features. The work shipped — and is documented.
Studio
Sevak Bagdasaryan
Founder · M.S. Mechanical Engineering
- · 10 yrs Aerospace
- · M.S. Mech Eng / CSUN
- · Eng Manager · PM
“Ten years in aerospace taught me that the difference between a part that flies and one that doesn't is rarely the CAD. It's the small, boring decisions made between the sketch and the cut. Oaknel exists to own those decisions for you — so your idea makes it out of the conference room and into a customer's hand.”
Sevak Bagdasaryan · Founder
Get in Touch
Got a part
to make?
A napkin sketch and a deadline is enough. The first hour is free — we'll tell you in plain language whether you have a product or a problem.