slice creative

Client

zimark

Year

(2026)

Deliverables

Enclosure design, mechanical engineering, forklift mounting, renders & animation

Sector

warehouse automation

Zimark turns every forklift and dock door into a sensor, reading proprietary markers on pallets to keep a warehouse's inventory accurate in real time. The vision and software are theirs; the hardware that had to survive a working warehouse is what we built.

We are Zimark's outsourced industrial design and mechanical engineering team.

The problem

Zimark's team is logistics and machine-vision engineers, with no in-house industrial design or mechanical engineering. The camera system had to mount to forklifts of varying carriage geometry without fouling the operator or the load, survive vibration, dust, and cold storage, house an NVIDIA Jetson with thermal headroom to run continuously, seal to IP67, and still look credible to the logistics enterprises evaluating it.

What we did

Forklift Vision camera enclosure: a ruggedized, IP67, vibration-resistant housing, iterated from V2 through V3.2 to refine sealing, serviceability, and manufacturability.
Forklift integration: brackets and backplates engineered to real carriage geometry, including Hyster trucks, so the cameras fit the fleet already on the floor.
Jetson compute enclosure with thermal management for continuous operation.
Dock-side hardware: the Shipping Control and coupling-station units that verify pallets before a truck leaves.
Renders and a product animation Zimark uses to sell the system before a unit is on site.

Outcome

Proof of concept in under two months, then carried across every revision as the embedded design and engineering team.