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The Caliber Metal team used to manage everything through QuickBooks and Excel. It worked fine when they were small, but as soon as they started building a larger customer base, cracks began to show.

SH Truck Bodies is a growing operation. With a 15% revenue increase in the last two years and growing from 30 to 40 employees over the last 5 years, their business is humming. Each week on the shop floor, SH manufactures about 40 truck bodies that they sell to distributors who install the bodies. They manufacture 10-12 standard bodies in dump, landscape, and platform varieties and also provide ...

S&L Spindles has been a local fixture of its community since the early 1990s, making outdoor decking components that people love. What started as a family business focused on crafting gazebos has grown into so much more—today, they make spindles, balusters, decking posts, pallet cut stock and even bale their wood shavings to sell as animal bedding. Along the way, they've also expanded into ...

To get the full story about how Stoll approaches their business and partnership with Koble, check out this video: Over the past 25 years, Stoll Industries has thrived, and with the help of Koble, they’ve eliminated operational headaches, expanded capabilities through customization, and unlocked new levels of growth.

Sweetwater Supplies, a go-to resource for welding enthusiasts and professionals alike, was once bogged down by manual processes and outdated systems.

For Horning Manufacturing, the “made-to-order” model doesn’t work. The equipment they produce has long lead times of 10 weeks or more depending on the product and, to make things more complex, 60% of their sales are concentrated within a 3-month window. Realistically, they need to know how much of each product they will sell a year or more in advance, forcing them to take a more proactive and ...

In Mattoon, Illinois, surrounded by cornfields and simple living, Hershey's Metal Meister, a leading metal forming manufacturer, is making an impact in the trim-folding world. They have accomplished an impressive feat: in just a few years, they have grown their revenue to 28 million, and don’t show signs of slowing down.

Dyna Products doesn’t believe in slowing down because of “uncertain times”. In just four years they have transformed from an organization that operated off of just 10 desktop computers, a lot of paperwork, and a bit of shouting across the shop floor, into an almost entirely paperless operation with over 500 network devices used by over 50 employees. So, how did they do it?

The complication with selling, manufacturing, or servicing equipment is that so many things can vary from one piece to another. You can have two tractors that are the same year, make, and model but depending on how often either one was used and how well they were maintained, those two pieces of equipment are going to perform very differently and hold different resale values. You need to be able ...

If there is one thing that can be said about small businesses in 2022, it's that we're busy. Demand has increased and good help is harder to find, meaning that we're working harder than ever and our backlog of work stays full. With all this work pulling at us, it becomes difficult to stay on top of it all.