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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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Metal fabrication’s era of change

The FABRICATOR welcomes its new columnist, Caleb Chamberlain, CEO and co-founder of OSH Cut, a fab shop that, with automated quoting and order processing, exemplifies the metal manufacturing industry’s push toward digitization.

Are Steel Prices Returning to Normal?

In the aftermath of COVID, steel prices exploded, peaking 2.5x higher than before the pandemic. But starting at the end of 2021, prices started falling again. After a brief spike at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, we are approaching levels not seen since 2020.

Customer Profiles - Life is a DIY Project

Transforming Innovation: How Zack Nelson's DIY Electric Humvee Showcases the Power of Custom Fabrication and Sheet Metal

Modernizing Sheet Metal Processes

Digital tech has transformed sheet metal manufacturing, and it is changing sheet metal ordering processes as well. Sheet metal parts can now be ordered quickly and easily, with fast lead-times, lower prices, and minimal overhead.

Quoting Sheet Metal With a Print vs CAD Files

A manufacturing print provides your fabricator a wealth of information, but in the world of digital manufacturing, quoting and manufacturing from a print is expensive and time-consuming. Sometimes using a print makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. Here's why.

Can Manufacturing Brokers Stay Competitive?

There has recently been an increase in new startups brokering manufacturing services. It's an exciting trend, but as direct manufacturers take advantage of software and automation to improve customer experience, brokers will have a difficult time staying competitive.