A fun informal interview with our good friend Benton Frisse of River City forge? And the launch of the “Coal Iron Collaborative”! Checkout our website at Coaliron.com

Talking through the process of setting up for the rest of the team to be able to run the CNC. How we think about standardizing a process as we're designing it.

Nathan talks about how automating little parts of the process can make MASSIVE improvements in how much and how repeatable what your building is. Lots here about how we learned to build things well....and profitably!

Nathan talks about building a system for working in your business instead of just putting more responsibility on you - the owner! Learn from our mistakes!

We're talking about some things that I've learned recently utilizing the Toyota Kata and the really simple method of problem Solving. This is A really simple way to overcome big challenges one bite at a time.

How setting things up in the beginning in properly was so devastated and such a hard learned lesson for us about finding good companies to work with to answer questions that otherwise are hard to answer even with the amazing resource that is, the Internet.

How creating a business with others in mind can be so fraught with sacrifice and how I'm taking steps to create systems that remove that work load from my shoulders and share the experience and knowledge with my team.

Talkin' about the new building and the process to get there!

Figuring out my why made all the difference when we were starting our company. And it continues to help shape how we make decisions and what our ultimate goals are.

Little update on Andy and how we're implementing lean and one piece flow into the shop. @coalironworks on Instagram Coaliron.com