America can't rebuild manufacturing by focusing only on the final assembly line. The deeper problem is the industrial layer underneath it: castings, forgings, tooling, materials, equipment, process control, and the skilled workforce that knows how to make hard parts. Those capabilities are easy to overlook until aircraft are grounded, production programs stall, or critical components can only be sourced from overseas.

Cameron Schiller argues that reindustrialization has to start at that foundational layer. As the CEO and founder of Rangeview, he is building a Southern California foundry focused on highly specialized investment castings, including nickel-based superalloys and structural components.

In this conversation, we look at why castings and forgings have become a national capacity problem, how digital tooling can remove months of delay from complex casting programs, and why rebuilding American manufacturing means rebuilding the systems, skills, and factory infrastructure that make everything else possible.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

Why final assembly is only one part of reindustrialization

How castings and forgings became a hidden capacity constraint

Why foundry knowledge has become a generational handoff problem

How digital tooling changes the casting timeline

Where supply chain risk hides inside the equipment layer

What it takes to rebuild hard industrial capability in America

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About the Guest

Cameron Schiller is the CEO and founder of Rangeview, a Southern California company focused on rebuilding American foundry capacity through highly specialized investment castings. Rangeview works on high-value castings, including nickel-based superalloys, VIM melt, and structural components, with a focus on difficult parts, fast iteration, commercialization, and scaling production timelines. Cameron founded the company out of the same family garage where he grew up building robots, and his background as a roboticist and manufacturing operator has shaped Rangeview's approach to automation, digital tooling, materials science, and factory systems. His work is focused on bringing advanced manufacturing capacity back to the United States and building the next generation of American foundries.

Alex Krutz is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.

Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.

Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.

You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.

Resources

Have a project that can benefit from Alex's expertise?

Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.

Visit TheFactoryDoctor.com to learn more about private consulting and to request a Discovery Call.

When companies are trying to scale complex hardware, the work can easily be split into separate lanes: engineering, production, supply chain, quality, sales, and operations. Each team has its own tasks, its own constraints, and its own way of measuring progress.

Keith Flynn's point is that speed comes from organizing those teams around the outcome they are trying to deliver, not just the work sitting in front of them. They are the ones who organize teams around outcomes, give people clarity on the result they are trying to achieve, and build the systems that help them get there.

Keith currently serves as Senior Vice President of Production at Anduril, where he helps scale advanced defense manufacturing for a new generation of hardware systems. He brings more than 20 years of experience across manufacturing, engineering, robotics, automotive, and new product launches, including leadership roles at Tesla, Starsky Robotics, and Toyota.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

• The relationship between speed, risk, and execution in modern manufacturing

• Why outcome-driven teams move faster than task-based organizations

• How Anduril thinks about production as part of the product from day one

• Why software-defined capability changes how defense hardware can be built

• The role digital tools play in connecting engineering, supply chain, production, and quality

• When stable demand becomes one of the most powerful tools for rebuilding industrial capacity

About the Guest

Keith Flynn is the Senior Vice President of Production at Anduril. He brings more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing and engineering, with deep expertise in developing and scaling innovative hardware systems across the automotive, robotics, and defense sectors. Before Anduril, he held leadership roles at Tesla across engineering, operations, research and development, new products, automation, and technologies. He also led the hardware engineering organization at autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics, and earlier in his career, supported new vehicle launches and manufacturing at Toyota.

Alex Krutz is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.

Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.

Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.

You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.

Resources

Have a project that can benefit from Alex's expertise?

Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.

Visit TheFactoryDoctor.com to learn more about private consulting and to request a Discovery Call.

What happens when a 100-year-old industrial company suddenly has to operate like a startup?

Dave Gitlin explains what it looked like to spin Carrier out of a major conglomerate in April 2020, exactly as COVID was turning into a global crisis.

Almost immediately, the company had to navigate survival mode, rethink its operating model, reshape its portfolio, and define what Carrier would become as an independent business.

What followed was a broader transformation around strategic focus, capital allocation, connected systems, AI infrastructure, and the future of thermal management.

Dave shares how Carrier evolved from a traditional HVAC manufacturer into a thermal solutions company operating at the center of some of the largest infrastructure shifts of the modern era.

Dave is the Chairman and CEO of Carrier and also serves on the board of Boeing following decades of leadership experience across Collins Aerospace and the former United Technologies businesses.

What You'll Discover In This Episode

• Spinning Carrier out of United Technologies during the start of COVID

• Building a "100-year-old startup" with a new culture, operating system, and leadership rhythm

• Using strategic clarity to reshape the portfolio and capital allocation

• The growth of AI infrastructure and the cooling demands behind data centers

• Moving from HVAC products to intelligent thermal solutions

• Rethinking global manufacturing through lifecycle cost, cash flow, and customer proximity

Guest Bio

Dave Gitlin is the Chairman and CEO of Carrier. He previously served as President & Chief Operating Officer of Collins Aerospace, and was President of UTC Aerospace Systems after leading the integration of Goodrich Corporation with UTC. In addition to his leadership roles, he has extensive experience in business development, strategy, and mergers and acquisitions. Gitlin holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Alex Krutz is the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing at the U.S. Commerce Department and the Managing Director at Patriot Industrial Partners, an Industrial Advisory firm.

Alex and his team partner with growth-oriented companies to improve their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and supply chain optimization initiatives.

Alex has earned the nickname "The Factory Doctor" from industry executives, analysts and media due to spearheading many manufacturing and supply chain turnarounds. Alex has completed over 250+ industrial performance improvement projects and manufacturing turnarounds around the globe in USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and India.

You can find Alex's Op-Ed articles that are featured in industry-leading publications, including Washington Times, Forbes, Aviation Week and Flight Global. He has also been cited in major media outlets, such as Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, among others. He has contributed to prominent conferences and webinars organized by Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and other institutions.

Resources

Have a project that can benefit from Alex's expertise?

Alex and his team at Patriot Industrial Partners work with growth-oriented organizations to raise their operational, quality and financial performance, drawing on decades of experience in complex problem solving, factory optimization, and due diligence.

Visit TheFactoryDoctor.com to learn more about private consulting and to request a Discovery Call.