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If you golf, or even attempt mini-golf, you know it all comes down to putting. Whether you are trying to lower your handicap, make the tour, or simply putt your way through the laughing clown obstacle while on a family vacation, the entire game comes down to putting. Bruce Rearick from Burnt Edges Consulting in […]

Olson Custom Designs (Indianapolis, IN) is a CNC contract manufacturing company specializing in precision machining for a diverse range of industries, including aerospace, defense, medical, semiconductor and commercial sectors. With state-of-the-art facilities and a team of highly skilled engineers and technicians, OCD offers comprehensive solutions for the production of complex components and assemblies. Leveraging advanced

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

In mid-2023 the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) took a significant step toward fortifying the security of the defense industry with the introduction of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC). The regulation, created in response to growing concerns over the security of controlled unclassified information within the supply chain, impacts all organizations that contract

ProShop was featured in a Production Machining Article highlighting cybersecurity. According to Olson Custom Designs (OCD), “ProShop helps make the machining business scalable by facilitating a largely paperless workflow, which customers and perspective customers tend to notice.” ProShop ERP offers CMMC-specific functionality to help guide machine shops through compliance. Although ERP is a critical tool,

Some CNC machine shop leaders have had an education in Bitcoin digital currency, but for the wrong reason: They have been forced to pay ransom online for sensitive data that had essentially been held hostage by hackers. An anecdote about one of these incidents was shared with me by Olson Custom Designs, a shop specializing

Nothing frustrates improvement efforts like software programs that don’t play well together. Brothers Brian and Mitch Olson made sure that didn’t happen when they launched their CNC machining shop by deploying a solution that integrates resource planning and quality management. Read The Entier Article At Fabricating & Metalworking ->