About
Built by someone who has lived the problem
I am Luka. I have spent my entire career on production floors — as a Konstrukteur designing press tools, as a CNC and assembly planning manager, as a founder running my own production company, and now as a Production Manager in Germany building precision electronics in semi-clean room environments. Over 10 years in manufacturing — from press tool design to CNC programming to running production lines building medical-grade electronics.
StepLinq came from that experience. Every problem the product solves is one I have personally dealt with — the tribal knowledge locked in one technician's head, the new hire who needs three weeks of shadowing, the audit where you scramble to prove documented procedures actually existed. Built from the floor up, not from a whiteboard.
The Problem
The problem I kept running into
Across automotive tooling, pharma equipment, and high-precision electronics — different industries, different products, same story. The assembly process lives in a printed sheet nobody updates, an Excel file from three years ago, and the head of the most experienced person on the floor. In lean manufacturing, rework and scrap typically account for 5-15% of total production cost. Half of that is traceable to unclear or missing documentation.
When that person is sick, on holiday, or leaves — everything slows down. New hires take weeks to reach acceptable quality. The same errors repeat because there is no standard reference anyone actually follows. Auditors ask for documented procedures and you spend two days reconstructing something that should already exist.
The software that claims to solve this is either built for enterprise companies with six-figure IT budgets, requires cloud connectivity that a factory floor network won't always support, or charges per user per month in a way that makes small teams hesitate to roll it out properly. None of it is built for the 30 to 150 person manufacturer who just needs something that works.
Tribal Knowledge
I have seen entire assembly processes exist only in one person's memory. When they left, quality problems followed for months. That institutional knowledge should be in the system, not in someone's head.
Training Bottlenecks
In every company I worked in, onboarding a new operator meant pulling a senior person off the line to shadow them. With proper visual instructions, a new hire can work independently from day one.
Assembly Errors
The same mistake made twice is a documentation failure, not a people failure. When every step has a photo reference and a quality checkpoint, errors get caught before they reach the customer.
Philosophy
How I think about this product
Offline-first
I have worked in facilities where the production network was isolated by design, where Wi-Fi on the floor was unreliable, and where IT policy simply didn't allow cloud tools. Software that requires a connection to function is not reliable software for manufacturing. StepLinq runs on your local network — always, regardless of what is happening with your internet.
Simple over powerful
Every feature in StepLinq exists because I personally needed it on a production floor. There is no feature added to impress a demo audience or satisfy an enterprise sales checklist. A production manager should be able to build a complete work instruction in an afternoon without reading a manual.
Own your data
Your assembly processes, your quality checkpoints, your operator sign-off records — these describe how you build your product. They should not sit on a vendor's server in a subscription you could lose access to. StepLinq stores everything locally on your own machines. You own it completely.
Contact
Talk to the founder directly
There is no sales team, no demo booking form, no automated follow-up sequence. If you want to know whether StepLinq makes sense for your production environment, send me an email. I will reply personally — usually the same day.