The Premier Industrial Advisory Firm

Can your operations and supply chain keep pace with growth? Patriot turns strategy into measurable performance.

Who We Are
Patriot Industrial Partners is a strategic advisory firm dedicated to strengthening America’s industrial base. We partner with industrial leaders to navigate policy shifts, plan growth & capital deployment, and execute performance improvements across the industrial lifecycle. Founded by Alex Krutz, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Department of Commerce, our team blends policy fluency with hands-on operational and technical expertise. We create value for clients, improve performance, and create a durable competitive advantage.

How We Help Industrial Leaders

Our Services

Patriot helps industrial organizations turn complex challenges into executable strategies and measurable operational improvements. Our advisory services span the industrial lifecycle, from strategy and investment planning to supply chain resilience, performance improvement, and factory recovery

Performance Improvement

Improve throughput, quality, delivery, and cost across complex industrial operations. Patriot identifies the root causes of underperformance and works alongside client teams to implement practical, sustainable improvements.

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Who We Serve
Our Industries
Patriot works with industrial organizations operating in complex, highly regulated, and mission-critical markets. Our team brings industry-specific expertise to help clients strengthen operations, navigate disruption, and build the capacity needed for long-term growth.

Aerospace

Scale production and strengthen the supplier base.

Defense

Convert urgent demand into reliable industrial capacity.

Automotive

Improve complex, high-rate manufacturing operations.

Shipbuilding

Recover schedules and strengthen maritime production.

Energy

Support safe, resilient, capital-intensive growth.

Meet Our Leadership Team

Meet the leaders behind Patriot Industrial Partners. Our team combines decades of experience in industrial strategy, performance improvement, manufacturing, and global delivery to help clients solve complex operational challenges and achieve measurable results.

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Founder | Managing Director

Alex Krutz

Alex Krutz, also known as the "Factory Doctor," is the Founder and Managing Director of Patriot Industrial Partners. He is a manufacturing leader with over 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, with expertise in strategy & transactions, reshoring initiatives, and business transformation.

Director - Performance Improvement

Kevin Husmann

Kevin Husmann is Patriot’s Director of Performance Improvement and an experienced operations and industrial engineering leader. He specializes in optimizing manufacturing and assembly facilities through factory turnarounds, production-line improvements, greenfield launches, process design, and just-in-time production.

International Delivery Leader

Suresh Addepalli

Suresh Addepalli is Patriot's International Delivery Leader with experience managing complex industrial initiatives across global teams and operations. His expertise includes program execution, operational improvement, cross-functional coordination, and delivering scalable solutions across international markets.

300+ Global Projects Completed

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U.S. - Canada - Mexico - UK - France - Italy - South Africa
South Korea - Malaysia - Japan - India

Featured Clients

Case Studies

Eliminating Backlog and Freeing $4.5 Million in Cash

International Aerospace Interiors Supplier

By utilizing the expertise of the Patriot team, the client recovered from a significant overdue sales backlog problem, improving customer satisfaction while also freeing up $4.5 million of cash within the first 4 months.

Accelerating an Aerospace Investment Decision

Engine Components

(Private Equity)

By harnessing the deep functional expertise of the Patriot team, the client was able to make rapid and informed decisions around strategic growth objectives and better negotiate deal and investment into target company.

Cutting Critical Parts Shortages by 50%

Machining Business

(Privately Held)

Improved production planning and operating system cadence and activities that yielded a 50% reduction in critical new parts shortages. On time starts to the shop and completion of First Article Inspections improved overall.

Achieving AS9100 Readiness in One Week

Engine MRO

(Public Company)

Able to rapidly drop in, refine quality work instructions, manual, and operating quality practices one week ahead of AS9100 audit, which was successfully passed and single minor finding resolved within one week of audit completion.

Testimonials

“Patriot Industrial Partners has become a recognized group of experts on operational efficiency and plant floor transformation in the global aerospace and defense industry. Patriot is a team of real-world experts with decades of shop floor experience to help their clients solve the most complex manufacturing and supply chain problems. At a time when supply chain has become the indispensable part of the aerospace recovery, Patriot has truly become the advisory the global aerospace and defense industry can trust.”

Chief Executive Officer,
Tier 2 Composites Business

Recent Patriot Blog Posts

Rising Defense Budgets Put the Global Defense Industrial Base to the Test

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U.S. Manufacturing Growth Gains Momentum in July ISM Survey

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Workers wearing safety gear fabricate steel components inside a large industrial manufacturing facility.

What the FY27 Continuing Resolution Reveals About American Shipbuilding

2 days ago8 min read

Container ships loaded with colorful cargo containers dock beside large cranes at a busy commercial port.

Recent Factory Doctor Podcast Episodes

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The Premier Industrial Advisory Firm Can your operations and supply chain keep pace with growth? Patriot turns strategy into measurable performance.

Who We Serve Our Industries Patriot works with industrial organizations operating in complex, highly regulated, and mission-critical markets. Our team brings industry-specific expertise to help clients strengthen operations, navigate disruption, and build the capacity needed for long-term growth.