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OSH Cut To Open A Second High-Tech Factory Near Cincinnati

OSH Cut CEO, Caleb Chamberlain, announced last week that their second U.S. factory is nearly operational and will be located in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.

Metal fabricators prefer the wrong kind of customer

Shops often find themselves in a strategic cul-de-sac—extremely busy, falling behind, and yet somehow unable to grow. This circumstance is created not by their competitors, but indirectly by their approach to overhead management.

The potential of digital-first manufacturing

What I’ve come to realize is that in manufacturing, software’s cost is justified not just by improved quality of life, but as a way to convert variable costs into fixed costs. In our case, we’ve used software to automate office overheads. First and foremost, we automate quoting and manufacturability checks. We employ zero estimators, but we can quote more than 100,000 parts per week without straining our systems.

Instant quoting expands access to sheet metal and CNC tube bending

After months of working through numerous tube bending challenges, we’ve designed customer-facing software that simulates rotary draw tube bending tailored for specific bend dies, mandrels, and other tooling we have available.

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Evaluating 2025 and building smarter fab shop strategies for 2026

In this year-end episode of Next-Gen Metal Fab, Tim Heston sits down with All Metals Fabricating’s Lance Thrailkill and OSH Cut CEO Caleb Chamberlain to unpack a wildly unpredictable 2025 in metal fabrication.

The emergence of private equity and vibe coding in fabrication

From the surge of co-bots and advanced automation tools on display to the practical challenges of integrating and maintaining them, FABTECH revealed just how fast the industry is evolving.

From quotes to delivery: Manufacturers must rethink the customer journey

Young people are primed to expect a different experience from manufacturers. This is the age of Amazon. Speed, accessibility, and simplicity are the new normal. This is obviously true for consumer products, but young people are bringing their expectations into businesses as well.

Tech is transforming the job shop market

In the last 70 years, technology destroyed, created, and transformed virtually every industry and market worldwide—every market except for manufacturing.

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The many business models of metal fabrication

One model doesn’t fit every business or manufacturing sector

Next-generation metal fabrication

This month’s Tech Talk gives a preview of Next-Gen Metal Fab, FMA’s newest podcast, with episodes featuring conversations between Senior Editor Tim Heston and Caleb Chamberlain, founder of Utah-based custom fabricator OSH Cut.

5 Compelling Reasons Why OEMs Should Utilize On-Demand Sheet Metal Fabrication

Explore how on-demand sheet metal fabrication revolutionizes manufacturing for OEMs, offering unmatched flexibility, reduced costs, faster prototyping, and superior quality—all essential for staying competitive in today's dynamic market.

Software that writes itself

Imagine a world in which even the smallest metal fabrication shops could write their own custom software. Thanks to AI, that world might not be too far away.

What software automation means for custom fabrication

OSH Cut is different, but is it disruptive to the sheet metal manufacturing industry?

Moving shop in metal fabrication

Columnist Caleb Chamberlain backward casts his eye, to quote Robert Burns, and delves into the challenges of moving shop, laying bare the best-laid plans of mice and men.