The OMS Market Insight provides monthly company updates and economic news for our industrial manufacturing customers.
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O’Neal Manufacturing Services offers robotic beam line processing for structural steel fabrication. Our PythonX® makes quick work of beams, channels, angle iron, square and rectangular HSS, flat bar, strip plate, and stair stringers. Our advanced machinery and highly skilled teams provide unmatched cut quality with predictable and consistent throughput. We provide multi-faceted cutting services for the leanest solution to your structural steel profiles.
Not only does the PythonX® cut faster and more precisely than you’ve ever experienced, its capabilities extend to include coping, notching, mitering, tapping, and countersinking. With O’Neal Manufacturing Services as your trusted fabrication partner, you will receive highly accurate cutting results like these:
As your supply chain partner, O’Neal Manufacturing Services delivers more complex parts for bigger projects but with shorter lead times than the competition. With nine ISO 9001:2015 fabrication facilities across North America, our vertically integrated turnkey manufacturing processes are the ideal solution for structural steel fabricators. Take advantage of our world-class innovation, significant capacity, and manufacturing redundancies. Optimize your workflow with fast and precise structural steel processing from OMS.
Structural Steel Industries We Serve:
O’Neal Manufacturing Services is the preferred manufacturer of quality metal components for the material handling industry. From carriage bars and side plates to mast weldments and counterweight assemblies, OMS understands the fabrication demands necessary to improve the flow of materials and increase production. Working as your partner, we provide strategic outsourcing services to ensure your supply chain runs smoothly. Our facilities offer large welding spaces for aerial lifts, cranes, and lift truck components and produce parts, assemblies, tables, and frames with complex shapes and tight tolerances.
Lift Truck Fabrication Support
From carriage bars and side plates to mast weldments and counterweight assemblies, we specialize in multi-stage processing for Lift Truck components and subassemblies. OMS has the industry know-how to deliver complex shapes requiring tight tolerances for a wide range of products within the following lift truck classes:
Crane Component Fabrication Support
OMS understands the demanding requirements that crane components must meet. With our extensive experience in the crane industry, we’re able to produce quality components efficiently and cost-effectively. Engaging with the right outsourcing partner can make all the difference in your supply chain. O’Neal Manufacturing Services delivers reliable, repeatable parts for the following Crane categories:
Aerial Lift Fabrication Support
With nine ISO 9001:2015 certified facilities across the country, OMS is the ideal aerial lift supply chain partner for original equipment manufacturers. Our experienced teams are adept at producing lift component parts and assemblies for tall orders, tight spaces, and any size load. Our experience in aerial lift fabrication includes:
O’Neal Manufacturing Services provides repeatable component part manufacturing and assembly for many facets of the material handling industry. When you need reliable, long-term support, count on OMS as your go-to supply chain partner. Let’s Build Things®
O’Neal Manufacturing Services kicked off its 25th year of operation in Monterrey, Mexico with a visit from its Birmingham, Alabama corporate leadership. Established on December 15th, 1998, OMS Monterrey is a custom fabrication powerhouse for North American-based original equipment manufacturers.
A supplier to major OEMs, the Monterrey team supports industries from Class A trucks and material handling equipment, to railroad, construction, and industrial equipment. At 240,000 square feet, OMS Monterrey offers the latest in precision metal cutting, forming, large-format machining, blasting, painting, and an extensive manual welding capacity.
“December 15th will mark 25 years that O’Neal has been operating in Mexico,” remarked Kent Brown, President of O’Neal Manufacturing Services. “With a team of 600 employees, you have never been bigger or better.”
The Monterrey plant is one of ten OMS facilities that provide repetitive parts production, engineering, and supply chain collaboration for OEMs seeking a partner to support their manufacturing volume. Other OMS plants are located in Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Together, they employ a combined total of nearly 1,500 team members.
OMS is a member of the O’Neal Industries family of companies, which oversees more than 70 specialized facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, all engaged in the metals industry.
“We are one family in many countries,” added Craft O’Neal, Chairman and CEO of O’Neal Industries. “Thank you for being an important part of the O’Neal legacy.”
During the kick-off event, Esteban Garza, General Manager in Monterrey, greeted visitors from O’Neal Industries, including Craft O’Neal, Chairman and CEO, Ruffner Page, President and COO, Stephen Armstrong, Executive Vice President, Troy Lugo, Senior Vice President and CFO, and Jonathan Coe, Vice President and General Council. Attendees from O’Neal Manufacturing Services’ headquarters in Birmingham, AL included Kent Brown, President and CEO and Amy Gartman, Director of Human Resources.
Garza closed the visit with an inspirational message, “Let’s make this 25th year the best in our history!”
O’Neal Manufacturing Services provides strategic outsourcing services for the railroad industry. We have built a reputation in the industry by supplying specialized heavy weld fabrications including steel frames for rail cars and locomotives, rail crossing and ancillary structures, and lightweight aluminum parts and assemblies. As a certified AAR M-1003 company, our skilled teams ensure the safety, interchangeability, and cost-effectiveness of the components we produce.
OMS offers a strategic advantage to our locomotive manufacturing partners by producing complex components and heavy fabrications between multiple North American facilities. Through our internal partnership, we provide an effective supply option to improve production throughput, reduce inventory exposure and expedite speed to market.
O’Neal Manufacturing Services is highly experienced in the production of rail car components. From complex weldments like manway covers to rail car frames and simple punched or burned parts, OMS has the capabilities and national footprint to service our rail car customers’ needs with quality and repeatability.
With a wide stock of steel and aluminum raw materials & components, along with special kitting, packaging & release programs, O’Neal Manufacturing Services can help reduce lead times and minimize work-in-progress for our customers. The railroad equipment industry requires steel profiles for rail fastening and track construction as well as rail cars. By purchasing custom-made special profiles from OMS, our customers experience reduced time and labor costs, lower machine and tool expenditures, and gain overall material investment savings while receiving steel sections with the geometry and composition to precisely match their specifications.
With our North American footprint, skilled staff, and AAR M-103 certification, O’Neal Manufacturing Services provides unsurpassed strategic outsourcing services for the railroad industry.
The OMS Market Insight provides monthly company updates and economic news for our industrial manufacturing customers.
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Aerial lifts are mechanical vehicles used to raise people and equipment to great heights and tight spaces. Sometimes referred to as boom lifts, aerial ladders, cherry pickers, or bucket trucks, aerial lifts feature a hydraulic lift system that extend a platform both horizontally and vertically, allowing the operator to access hard-to-reach areas to complete a job. Developed as an alternative to scaffolding and ladders, the basic components of an aerial lift include a wheeled base structure, an extending arm with chassis, and a flat work platform with operator controls.
Telescopic and Articulating Aerial Lifts
There are two main types of aerial lifts employed, depending on the task. A telescopic boom lift, or stick boom, has a straight lifting arm that extends to impressive heights up to 185 feet. In addition to their vertical capabilities, telescopic booms also offer greater horizontal reach than any other type of aerial platform. They are most commonly used in construction sites, for bridge inspection, industrial maintenance, electrical work, tree trimming, painting, or any job requiring a combination of maximum height and outreach.
Another type of lift called an articulating boom or knuckle boom features hinged arms, rather than straight lifting arms that bend to maneuver a work platform around obstacles. Used to access narrow spaces for maintenance projects or electrical work, articulating booms offer great versatility and can reach up and over obstacles to access difficult work areas.
Aerial Lift Component Manufacturing
O’Neal Manufacturing Services provides fabricated metal components, sub-assemblies, and weldments for many facets of the material handling industry. Featuring advanced equipment and large welding spaces ideal for aerial lift fabrication, OMS offers repeatable component part manufacturing and assembly for aerial work platforms, turn table frames, outrigger assemblies, boom tubes, axle frames, chassis frame covers, and other lift components. With ISO 9001:2015 certified facilities across the country, O’Neal Manufacturing Services is the preferred aerial lift supply chain partner for original equipment manufacturers.
Congratulations to our Houston team! Managing 150 dedicated employees, the facility experienced a boom in its workforce and ended 2022 without a single recordable injury.
“2022 presented Houston with many opportunities and challenges,” commented the plant general manager, Ed Arceneaux. “Through the dedication of our team, we accomplished goals that many thought would not be possible. I am extremely proud to be a part of this great group.”
OMS Houston is a steel fabrication powerhouse with multi-step processing, welding, forming, finishing, and machined assemblies. As an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, O’Neal Manufacturing Services provides reliable fabrication services while meeting the latest standards of safety for our employees. By supporting a safe working environment, we’re able to reduce risks, identify potential hazards, and avoid production-halting missteps, ensuring quality across the board. Our top priorities are to provide affordable solutions, exceptional customer service, and the best quality metal components to support our customers.
From building construction to industrial machinery, and recreational equipment to automotive parts, metal tubes and profiles can be found in a wealth of applications. Fabricating metal tubes and pipes through traditional methods such as plasma cutting, abrasive stamping, and drilling can be a slow process with complex positioning and low accuracy. Tube laser cutting technologies have made notable advancements to this process, and the resulting quality and production efficiencies have greatly improved.
Tube laser cutting is an excellent process for fabricating standard or complex parts that require extreme cutting precision while minimizing downstream tasks. Tube, channel, or structural shapes are cut to length with extreme accuracy and speed. But the benefits don’t stop there. In a single operation, our lasers cut tubes into sections and also create perforations and complex contours. This advanced cutting produces turnkey parts with a tight tolerance that require no additional deburring.
Solid-state lasers have a broad processing spectrum, high feed rates, and flexible capabilities. A variety of materials with different wall thicknesses and profile geometries are cut with such high quality that no additional finishing work is required. For cost-effective manufacturing, our tube lasers offer versatility for a wide range of design options with significantly fewer steps. With no need for sawing, drilling, or deburring, tube laser cutting and processing solutions from OMS will reduce the time, waste, and overall cost of your project.
Our comprehensive tube processing equipment ranges from high-tech tube lasers to traditional metal saws and tube bending equipment that handle swaging, cutting, punching, trimming, and bending with ease. Through vertically integrated, turnkey fabrication and our significant capacity to support your manufacturing redundancies, OMS is well-equipped to deliver quality parts that meet your schedule.
OMS Indianapolis kicked off the new year with its annual King Cake feast. These delicious and colorful brioche cakes are part of a tradition enjoyed by their team for the past ten years. Finding the baby in their cake was an added bonus!
This delightful confection is a cross between a French pastry and a coffee cake. Its braided cinnamon-flavored dough is topped with sweet icing and adorned in royal colors of purple, green, and gold sugar. The colors signify justice, faith, and power. In Mexican culture, the cake is called Rosca de Reyes. The French refer to it as galette de rois. Though many countries enjoy their own version, the common element of these cakes is the gem, of fève, hidden inside its decadent layers. Each person who takes a slice of King Cake looks for a tiny plastic baby hidden inside. Discovering the baby has become part of a light-hearted competition, for the one who finds it is honored with good luck and prosperity in the year ahead.
When and where did the King Cake fun begin? It is believed the cake itself originated in France and was presented in the U.S. in 1870. The French version is an almond puff pastry topped with a paper crown. Introduced to New Orleans, Louisiana more than 150 years ago, today’s cakes are ring-shaped, symbolizing a king’s crown. Traditionally served on January 6, known as King’s Day, these tasty delights are consumed from the beginning of Carnival season through Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, February 21.
Whatever prompts you to partake in this delectable tradition, tasting a King Cake is an experience you don’t want to miss.
