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.
As I write, OSH Cut is finishing up a move to a new, larger facility. We opened in 2018 with a little under 6,000 sq. ft. of shop space and no office. We outgrew that tiny space almost immediately. In the following five years, we took over the leases on two adjacent units, expanding to around 20,000 sq. ft. and still bursting at the seams.
Late last year, as part of our expansion into tube cutting, we opened a new 52,000-sq.-ft. facility. We started moving equipment in January, and as of early March, all our equipment was in our new space and online. It was a big job, and not everything went according to plan. But we learned a lot, and in the process we developed new software automation to help us stay ahead in the future.
