You Can’t Reindustrialize America Without the Foundries w/ Cameron Schiller, Rangeview CEO

The Factory Doctor Podcast Featuring Cameron Schiller

July 2, 2026

Podcast Spotlights

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

Guest Bio

Cameron Schiller is the founder and CEO of Rangeview, a Southern California company rebuilding American foundry capacity through advanced investment casting. With a background in robotics and manufacturing operations, he founded Rangeview in his family’s garage and has since focused on modernizing the production of complex metal components for aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Under his leadership, Rangeview is combining automation, digital tooling, materials science, and advanced factory systems to reduce lead times, accelerate production, and strengthen the American industrial base.