Manufacturing

This team of freshmen UVA engineering students earned an “A” for their semester project at OESH…building a safety barrier for Crispin, our new injection molding machine, that meets not just OSHA‘s (U.S’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration) but OESH’s exceptionally high standards for work safety (thanks to the factory foreman also being a medical doctor). […]

Last month we exceeded the amperage that our current electrical service could provide. To keep things going, as well as to begin using our new machines, we added not just another electrical service, but an additional utility pole with a specific type of transformer that powers our manufacturing equipment in the most efficient way. It […]

This can be placed onto the top of the OESH Media pile: Online Magazine Today’s Medical Developments stacked the OESH Lizards onto the cover of the October, 2012 issue. You can find the OESH article, wonderful in every way imaginable, beginning on page 56

Who would have thought that a shoe factory is an academic think tank for USA-based manufacturing? This is precisely what our OESH factory has become. The buzz words are “knowledge-based manufacturing” which have been identified by experts as the key to getting manufacturing back into America. Along those lines, this year we’re fortunate to have […]

Today is Labor Day, traditionally the dawn of a new year of classes for students. At OESH, we especially enjoyed the great efforting of 3 remarkable workers this summer, and marvel that they are now setting up for even more formal education, as our stellar summer workers left the Charlottesville factory for college hijinks and […]

I may be seriously overestimating OESHers’ interest in our shoemaking machinery, but that has not deterred Zoe (Bob and Casey’s youngest daughter) and me from walking around the factory naming all of the machines – or broadcasting our extraordinary creativity here on the OESH blog. So here, meet our newly-personified friends: This is Jerry, the […]

Some may not consider the life of a cobbler to be so illustrious, but unless you make your living writing for Portlandia or tracking down colossal squid, I can assure you that my job is much more fun than yours. Because I basically get to do arts and crafts all day, with the added bonus […]

Indeed, OESH and Casey’s handy dandy waterjet saw are featured this month in Manufacturing Net — the go-to publication for all things manufacturing. You can read the article directly on Manufacturing Net’s website here. I also transferred screen shots of the article below (click to enlarge the type).  

I know, that’s a lot but this post that I’ve been promising to write on behalf of all you OESHers who have told me that OESH has helped with metatarsalgia and Morton’s Neuroma, has been a long time in the waiting. Pain in the forefoot, specifically pain in the ball of the foot, occurs far […]

Over spring break, our middle daughter Kellyn put together this spectacular video of our making the OESH sandal uppers. This isn’t in China — this is Charlottesville, Virginia. Enjoy!