WEBINAR: Competing on Data: How Machine Intelligence Wins More Work

Now On-Demand

If your best customer asked you today to prove you’re more efficient than a competing shop, what would you show them?

OMW Corporation walked into that exact meeting this past March. President & COO Michael Langston flipped his laptop around, pulled up real-time machine data from their shop floor 3,000 miles away, and showed a room full of senior supply chain leaders what efficiency actually looks like. Six weeks later, $2.5 million in new work had landed.

OMW runs 43 machines across two California facilities, competing for parts in the new space economy against shops in Texas, Florida, Mexico, Turkey, and Vietnam. California isn’t the cheapest place to do this work. They know it. Their customers know it. They win anyway — by being faster, more reliable, and more efficient than the alternative, and by being able to prove it on a screen.

In this conversation, OMW’s Michael Langston (President & COO), Kevin Early (Production Manager), and Chris Radieve (Director of Manufacturing Technology) walk through how they built a culture where data drives daily decisions — and how that culture has produced a 12% utilization gain across all 43 machines in less than a year.

“When all you’re measuring is spindle uptime, your focus is keeping the spindles turning — which may sound like the right thing to do, but it’s not always the right thing to do.”

— Michael Langston, President & COO, OMW

What You’ll Hear

• How a single laptop demo to a customer’s supply chain team produced $2.5M in new work
• Why OMW retired their homebuilt machine monitoring system — and what changed when “spindle uptime” stopped being the only metric
• How attacking time-to-first-active and long stops drove a 12% utilization gain across 43 machines in under a year
• How a 30-year-old shop with low turnover got past the “if you’re measuring me, I’m in danger” reflex on the floor
• Why the integration between machine data and ERP (in OMW’s case, Fulcrum) is what makes quoting and scheduling actually work

Who Should Watch

• Shop owners and operators competing in markets where geography or labor costs aren’t on your side
• Operations managers who suspect their utilization number is wrong — or that they’re measuring the wrong thing entirely
• Anyone who’s outgrown their first-generation monitoring system and is trying to figure out what the next one needs to do

If you’re competing in a market where you can’t assume a built-in advantage, this is a conversation worth your time.

About OMW
OMW Corporation is a precision contract manufacturer based in Northern California, specializing in mid-to-high complexity 5-axis CNC machining and light assembly. Founded in 1996, OMW is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026 and has grown to roughly 120 employees, 43 machines, and five buildings across two facilities in Nevada and Petaluma, California. More than 90% of OMW’s work supports the new space economy — launch vehicles, satellites, and the ground infrastructure that supports them — with additional work in medical devices, electronics, and energy. OMW holds AS9100 and ISO9001 certifications and is sustaining 20%+ year-over-year growth.