Building success from humble beginnings is a quintessential American story, and it’s a familiar one to two brothers and their precision-machining business, Olson Custom Designs. Maintaining adaptability, imposing high standards, drawing support from their family, and their own sheer determination have propelled Mitch and Brian Olson from scrappy upstarts to major players in a range of critical manufacturing markets.
In 2014, the brothers decided to leave their individual careers to start their own precision CNC machining business, setting up their own contract manufacturing shop in Indianapolis. Originally, OCD was a two-man operation, but today it employs a team of 60 working across three shifts. In 2018, OCD relocated from a 5,000-square-foot rented space into the 24,000-square-foot shop it now occupies, with 23 CNC machines. As they approach 10 full years of operation, the brothers look back on their business’s lean, early years, the exciting growth to date, and what lies ahead.
