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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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An Online Metal Service for Fab Shops

We built our sheet metal service to meet the needs of shops, contractors, and engineering companies. Here's how we've changed, and where we are going.

Sheet Metal Has an Image Problem

Cutting and bending a sheet metal part is often much cheaper and faster than other manufacturing alternatives, but it isn't always the first design choice. Why is that? We suspect that people's reservations aren't driven by what is possible, but what is easy. And until recently, getting sheet metal parts wasn't easy.

Steel Prices are Dropping in 2022

Beginning roughly in November 2020, steel prices increased dramatically, with costs peaking at 2.5x pre-COVID levels by November 2021. In the months following, prices stabilized and have dropped 33%. Prices still exceed previous levels by a factor of 2, but they appear to be recovering.

Cutting Waste Through On-Demand Fabrication

Successful companies are very good at cutting the waste. Two huge causes of waste in an organization are overproductions and excess inventory. Utilizing on-demand metal fabrication can significantly reduce the amount of inventory a company needs to have on-hand and streamline other production processes. Technology and software-enabled shops are paving the way to revolutionize the industry.

Steel Prices Increased Dramatically in 2021

Driven by high demand and persistent supply-chain issues, steel prices increased dramatically in 2021. Price increases have affected the entire supply-chain, from material rationing at mills, to long service center leads, and finally increases in product costs.

Brothers Aim to Transform the Fabrication Industry

Caleb and Jacom Chamberlain, both engineers, needed precision sheet metal parts cut and bent, but found it difficult to find vendors to do the job. So they started OSH Cut to make it easier for themselves and others. OSH Cut now offers precision blank cutting and bending services, shipping all over the US.