Relentless #37 - Cameron Schiller, Co-Founder & CEO of Rangeview
Aug 16, 2025
Cameron Schiller, co-founder and CEO of Rangeview, builds modern foundry systems to reindustrialize American casting. He discusses reinventing casting with a cyber foundry, lessons from early work in China and robotics, why casting was overlooked, scaling production in retrofit hangars, automation’s role in replacing sweatshop labor, and designing inspiring, highly automated factories for defense and industry.
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Factories Capture Real Value
- A factory converts raw material into high-value finished parts and captures much of the supply chain's value.
- Winning manufacturing requires solving early-stage, hard problems, not just assembly-level 'screwdriver' work.
Finance Manufacturing Like Manufacturing
- Treat manufacturing finance differently: heavy CAPEX and long work‑in‑progress change risk and capital needs.
- Prioritize inventory and throughput planning when lead times and WIP run into weeks or months.
Infrastructure Beats Cheap Labor
- China wins not only on labor cost but on dense industrial infrastructure and supplier ecosystems.
- U.S. manufacturing needs local equipment, suppliers, and integrated clusters to be competitive.
