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Caleb Chamberlain
OSH Cut
165 N. 1330 W #C4
Orem, UT 84057
801-850-7584
- From The Fabricator
Moving shop in metal fabrication
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Apr 10, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
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.
- From The Fabricator
The metal fabrication business, accelerated with tech
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Mar 19, 2024
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
Columnist Caleb Chamberlain recalls the days of the IBM-compatible computer, massive calculators, and a starkly different time in U.S. manufacturing. Things have changed—and mostly for the better.
- From The Fabricator
Great laser tube cutting machine, rough delivery
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Feb 17, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The Silicon Valley mantra of “move fast and break things” might not apply everywhere in custom metal fabrication, especially when it comes to new equipment. Columnist Caleb Chamberlain just found this out the hard way with a tube laser.
- From The Fabricator
Scaling a metal fabricator with custom software
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Jan 8, 2024
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
OSH Cut CEO Caleb Chamberlain recalls his experience, and ultimate success, in writing production, inventory, and shipping software for his metal fabrication business.
- From The Fabricator
Fabrication software: from floppy disks to the cloud
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Dec 21, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Fabricators used to buy software in a box. Today, they turn to the cloud. And in the near future, AI tools will change how we interact with computers in ways impossible to foresee.
- From The Fabricator
Laser tube cutting technology accessible to all
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Dec 11, 2023
- Laser Cutting
- Blog Post
OSH Cut offers automated quoting for flat sheet cutting and bending. The fabricator now is diving into near-instant quoting for laser tube cutting.
- From The Fabricator
JIT scheduling for a high-mix sheet metal fabrication shop
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Oct 23, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
Balancing nesting efficiency against limited work-in-process (WIP) is an ongoing challenge for OSH Cut, a high-mix, on-demand sheet metal manufacturing service. So it developed in-house software that balances nesting efficiency against production needs.
- From The Fabricator
What can AI do for metal fabricators?
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Sep 19, 2023
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Artificial intelligence will change the world, eventually. Metal fabricators and manufacturers alike still deal in the physical world, though, and to do that, thankfully, they still need humans to be involved.
- From The Fabricator
Building and buying great software for metal manufacturing
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Aug 28, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Healthcare.gov’s disastrous rollout tells metal manufacturers what to avoid when looking into software, its quality, and how it was developed.
- From The Fabricator
Optimizing metal manufacturing performance like Formula One racing
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Jul 20, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Engineers and analysts in performance racing and financial planning use Monte Carlo simulations and data to predict outcomes of incredibly complicated scenarios. Soon, more fabricators might be doing the same.
- From The Fabricator
How manufacturing businesses can maximize value with digital advertising
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Jun 28, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
In the digital age, advertising can be tracked and measured. How manufacturing shops and other metal fabricators use that data can make or break a marketing program.
- From The Fabricator
The living wage gap in metal fabrication
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- May 15, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Metal fabrication businesses have had trouble finding skilled workers for years. A living wage is part of the solution.
- From The Fabricator
A manufacturer's complicated reality of scheduling, measuring performance
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Apr 26, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Aside from quality, supply chain, personnel, compliance, and hosts of other complexities, scheduling alone is complicated for many manufacturing businesses. So how is one Utah-based metal fabrication shop tackling the high-mix scheduling problem? OSH Cut Founder/CEO Caleb Chamberlain explains in his latest column.
- From The Fabricator
Southwest Airlines software meltdown a warning for manufacturers
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Mar 16, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Southwest Airlines left thousands stranded over the holidays. For airlines and fabricators alike, the experience proves how risky business can be for manufacturing shops with antiquated software.
- From The Fabricator
Sheet metal nesting strategies and leveraging data for the job shop
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Feb 23, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Columnist Caleb Chamberlain discusses lessons learned in sheet metal nesting and inventory management, and how high-product-mix job shops can better use data.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 05/07/2024
- Running Time:
- 67:38
Patrick Brunken, VP of Addison Machine Engineering, joins The Fabricator Podcast to talk about the tube and pipe...
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