Engineering support for Montana manufacturers, wherever you are
Montana's producers are spread across a lot of geography — a lumber operation in the Flathead, a food processor in Billings, an optics firm in Bozeman. Willowark works the way that geography demands: remote-first engineering, with travel when the work is physical.
We design automation systems, machine vision inspection, custom software, and IoT infrastructure for Montana companies that can't hire this expertise locally — and shouldn't have to relocate to get it.
How manufacturing runs here
Montana's industrial base, as we find it.
Montana's industrial base runs on wood products and lumber, food and beverage processing tied to grain and cattle, mining and energy support equipment, and a genuine photonics and optics cluster that has grown up around Bozeman and Montana State University. Most operations are small to mid-sized and far from the nearest systems integrator.
Machine vision fits Montana's grading and inspection problems in wood and food, while IoT and edge monitoring suit facilities that sit hours from the nearest technician.
Industries in Montana
- Wood products & lumber
- Food & beverage processing
- Photonics & optics (Bozeman)
- Mining & energy equipment
- Agriculture
What we do for Montana
The four capabilities this area asks for most.
Vision & Advanced Sensing
Machine vision, AI inspection, laser measurement, 3D vision, radar, X-ray integration, and sensor fusion.
Learn more →Industrial Automation
Manufacturing automation, machine integration, IIoT, production monitoring, and industrial AI for the plant floor.
Learn more →IoT & Smart Systems
Raspberry Pi and embedded systems, smart sensors, electrical and energy monitoring, gateways, and edge computing.
Learn more →Systems Integration
We make technologies that weren't designed together work as one system — hardware, software, machines, and cloud.
Learn more →Chosen from the industry mix above. All eight capabilities →
Where's the site?
Tell us about the plant in Montana.
Design and software run remotely; we travel for commissioning and installation. One line about the line is enough to start.
Common questions
Asked by teams in Montana.
Do you travel to Montana for on-site work?
Yes. Commissioning, integration, and installation happen on-site at your facility. Design, programming, and support run remotely between visits, which keeps travel costs contained even for sites far from a major airport.
Can you support remote industrial sites in Montana?
That is a core use case for us. We build IoT and edge systems that monitor equipment at distant facilities, push alerts and data to your team, and let us diagnose most issues without anyone driving three hours.
Do you work with Bozeman's photonics and optics companies?
Yes, though usually on the production and test side rather than optical design. Photonics firms typically need automated test fixtures, vision-based alignment or inspection, and software that captures instrument data during assembly — work we can engineer remotely and commission at your bench. We coordinate with your optical engineers on tolerances and test criteria, then build the automation and data capture around them.
Cities we've mapped
City-level pages exist for New York's Capital Region, where we work on-site. In Montana we work remote-first with travel for commissioning — see the full map.
Most relevant industries
Strategy. Software. Systems.
Engineering for Montana manufacturers.
Describe the problem in your own words. An engineer reads it — not a sales script — and tells you plainly what it would take.