McKenzie Craft: Pushing Boundaries with INNERGY + Microvellum
Founded in 2012 as an addition to McKenzie’s design-build practice, McKenzie Craft began as a hands-on workshop, producing high-quality millwork and metalwork entirely by hand. While the work was meticulous and demanding, it often took significant time to complete complex projects without integrated machining or digital tools. Over the years, McKenzie Craft has evolved into a 25,000-square-foot fabrication facility, delivering high-end architectural millwork, metalwork, and custom finishes across South Florida. Rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and a commitment to quality, the team now combines traditional skill with advanced technology to translate complex architectural visions into reality for luxury residential, hospitality, and commercial projects.
Every piece that leaves the workshop reflects careful planning, precision engineering, and thoughtful execution. The team harnesses twenty years of McKenzie’s design-build capabilities to provide reliable fabrication solutions to a variety of clients.
Complexity at Scale
As McKenzie Craft expanded its portfolio to include increasingly ambitious projects, from the sculptural spiral staircase at Casamar’s oceanfront atrium to the iconic rotating lounge at Pier Sixty-Six, the team confronted challenges familiar to growing fabricators:
Precision demands: Complex design intent required exacting engineering and flawless execution.
Fragmented systems: Multiple tools for estimating, scheduling, and communication introduced inefficiencies.
Visibility gaps: Before system integration, real-time insight into material usage, costs, and production bottlenecks was limited, making it difficult to anticipate issues, track efficiency, or adjust workloads proactively.
CNC integration: CNC integration was essential to handle increasingly complex geometric assemblies and improve the efficiency of component development. By adding CNC machining, McKenzie Craft gained greater production efficiency and versatility, enabling precise cutting across multiple materials and more intricate assemblies.
With a reputation for executing large-scale, high-detail projects, McKenzie Craft recognized that connecting design, production, and business operations was essential to maintain quality while scaling.
The Solution: Microvellum + INNERGY
To address evolving production challenges, McKenzie Craft initially adopted Microvellum alongside the purchase of CNC machinery, creating a CAD-based engineering workflow that improved precision and efficiency on increasingly complex assemblies. As operations grew and scaling pressures increased, the team recognized the need for a unified platform, leading to the adoption of INNERGY for ERP and operational management. Together, these platforms established a seamless digital workflow, bridging the gap between design intent and shop-floor execution while supporting scalable, efficient operations.
Microvellum not only streamlined the creation of shop drawings, 3D modeling, cut lists, and CNC-ready data for typical products, but also provided McKenzie Craft the flexibility and versatility to CNC far more complex shapes, sometimes beyond the software’s original design, while still delivering excellent results, from the radius trim to the curved moldings on Pier 66’s 17th-floor lounge.
INNERGY centralized estimating, forecasting, and financial tracking, providing leadership with visibility into workload, capacity, and profitability across multiple active job sites.
This combined workflow reduced manual entry, eliminated data silos, and created a single source of truth from project conception to installation. The team spends less time chasing data, and more time producing quality work.
Innovation with Precision
The benefits of integrating Microvellum and INNERGY have been measurable and meaningful:
Faster Lead Times: Integrated planning accelerated production schedules, enabling McKenzie Craft to meet aggressive deadlines on projects like Casamar, spanning over 10,000 sq. ft. of millwork.
Increased Efficiency: CNC programming from Microvellum minimized rework, while INNERGY’s bottleneck reports gave McKenzie Craft visibility into potential slowdowns, allowing work to be re-routed and workload volume maintained across all departments for maximum production efficiency.
Improved Collaboration: Integrated systems mean integrated people. With INNERGY, all departments have real-time visibility to the same data, allowing each team to leverage it to support their role. This alignment ensures that individual efforts contribute to department goals and, ultimately, the company’s objectives, enabling value engineering feedback early in the design phases.
Scalability: Microvellum provides exacting engineering solutions with tremendous flexibility for ever-changing projects, while its new Foundation Library ensures the team stays current with the latest tools and machining, minimizing trial and error for new hardware systems and assembly modifications. Combined with INNERGY’s scalable platform, which highlights bottlenecks and maximizes production efficiency, McKenzie Craft can grow capacity and take on more complex work without adding resources, all while maintaining consistent quality.
Culture and Craftsmanship
For McKenzie Craft, this integration is more than a technological upgrade. It reflects the company’s values. Their culture prioritizes innovation, teamwork, and attention to detail, and these platforms allow those values to translate into tangible results. Empowered with accurate data and streamlined processes, the team can focus on what truly matters: delivering precise, well-executed work on every project.
Looking Ahead
The union of INNERGY and Microvellum positions McKenzie Craft to tackle the next generation of fabrication challenges. As architectural designs grow more ambitious and project timelines tighter, the team is equipped to deliver with precision and efficiency.
With innovation at the core and trusted software partners built by woodworkers for woodworkers, McKenzie Craft continues to support the evolution of South Florida’s most demanding projects, one successful installation at a time.
