Raw Steel, Glass, and Wood Becomes a Beautiful Staircase - See How its Made!
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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This family owned company ViewRail makes killer Modern Stairs. In today’s Build Show I’m traveling to their factory in Goshen IN to fulfill my fantasy of Hosting a How It’s Made episode. This 20 year old company makes everything from raw materials and their process is really impressive. Join the owner Len and I for this not to miss tour. Even if modern isn’t your thing this factory is awesome!
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I love this guy's enthusiasm and love for his business! It's amazing how much he knows about it and cares about it.
Thanks, some trainees asked me the other day, so which of the jobs have you done at Viewrail. I thought for moment and I have done all of them except for accounting.
@@lennymorrison Thanks for being so candid on your shop tour, such a cool business and beautiful product.
@@gordonbeaulieu678 Thanks Gordon. Matt is really easy to talk with. We just walk around and have fun together.
@@lennymorrison Glad you're really not afraid to get your hands dirty and figure out what works best for your company. You're essentially the Elon Musk of stairs!
@@lennymorrison I wish you success. I like that you make everything so you control the quality. No looking for places to cheap out like the hardware. You own the quality. You can truly say "Proudly Made in the USA".
Hope you, your staff at Viewrail, and your families stay safe and well.
As you watch this video, keep track of the size of the buildings. This facility has the footprint of a small city. That and the investment in machinery and computer programming make this an incredibly expensive operation. But, they produce an elegant product no more expensive than a used domestic car. That is a fantastic result of great management and planning. I sincerely wish them the best of success in future sales. Along those lines, they will undoubtedly continue to come up with new designs to even further perfect their products.
It's not actually that big, they do have 2 buildings right next to each other though, 1 is nearly twice the size of the other. Look it up on Google Maps.
This guy talks like an English professor. Perfect articulation, no filler words. Nobody talks like that these days. Incredibly smart person, brilliant operation. Well done. Wish I could afford... all the best! Thanks Matt for an incredible tour!
Thanks.
I never ever would have guessed that so much went into the manufacture of custom stairs. After seeing the operation and then hearing the top end price of $15,000 it seems like a good deal.This is a fantastic video.
I'm amazed that they're "only" $15K. I thought for sure a top of the line staircase would be more like $30K or $40K (given the cost of building this factory and being American made).
Those machines are expensive, but the raw materials that go into stairs only cost like $4k (when using expensive lumber, with cheap lumber it's only $2k).
keep in mind he said typically its around 15k with minimum being around 9k... if you have something larger or more extravagant than is typical then it'll cost more
I just bought there flight stairs, my setup is 4 sections of 6 stairs with Rod railing, cost me almost 30k, this video is a year old, prices have gone through the roof since then
Talk about a one stop shop!
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I really, really enjoyed seeing the manufacturing process. Very impressive.
WoW! Very impressive. Automation, QA processes, EVERYTHING being done in house, is how they manage to deliver HIGH quality at a reasonable price.
Nice to see such a commitment to quality and American jobs. Makes me want to put in a set of stairs somewhere just to buy from them.
My hats off to them. This is quite an output of capital on machinery and technology, and the owners vision is employing many and creating opportunities for his workers and independent installers as well. Thank you for betting on America and not sourcing your product overseas; that and the quality of your products will make me purchase on upcoming projects, but the quality facility and workforce will make that purchase feel even better. Your company is a true success story and I wish you and your employees the best. Thank you for making this content Mr. Risinger
The cool part is the customization compared to the cost is just impressive. It used to be that a custom stairwell built like these would be 2 to 3 times the price of a ViewRail. Pretty amazing.
I wouldn't say so. The materials used in the past were more organic. It's I think easier to buy glass and steel than wood as it's processed rather than collected then processed. I've known a few woodwork craftsman in my time in the South like Alabama or Georgia or Tennessee and these guys live in regular neighborhoods with a nice big barn with tools and they produce those amazing staircases of all wood you see in the magnificent most beautiful homes. For a really nice 3 level staircase his prices were relatively decent in the 20-30k range. For a 2 level home it was a lot less.
Love this guys in-depth knowledge and passion for all aspects of the manufacture, a refreshing difference to many 'managers'. Clearly a very smart, enthusiastic yet humble guy. Respect.
This is one your best vids i have seen. WOW and WOW !!!
What an inspiring video! This guy has become an expert in making every piece that goes into his product! America needs more of this. Using technology to make an amazing product, while still putting Americans to work.
@Matt Risinger. Thanks Matt for a great tour and introduction to Viewrail. I'm glad I took the time to watch the entire video and get a appreciation of a great US company that really seems to care about their product to the point that they even make all the hardware that goes into their stairs down to the fasteners.
Great video team and editing.
Hope you, your staff, and your families stay safe and well.
What an impressive operation. Really enjoyed this.
Watching while working in a manufacturing facility similar to this! 🙌🏾. Amazing process, quality control and logistics system. I'd love a view rail stair case for my house.
Seeing the flow drilled holes blew my mind. So cool..
Amazing, this needs to go viral. American company, made, designed, produced, and all right here in the USA. Jobs, quality, perfection, and just fantastic.
Incredible operation, thanks.
Wow didn't even notice that I spent 43 minutes watching this until the very end. Cool video and awesome production. I came across viewrail's website when I was looking into cable railings for my stairs a couple years ago. Never knew they're such a large domestic operation.
More manufacturing tours like this Matt! Great, great episode!!
I wish all companies were this sophisticated and efficient. Awesome manufacturing, great video.
This is an incredible video. This channel never fails to deliver. Shout out to the company for their generosity and clarity too!!
Forget the masks, get those guys some hearing protection.
Huh?!?
Thank you Captain OSHA
90db for more than 30 minutes is required of ear cuff or plugs at the least. Those high frequencies and the noise distorted of air blowing is all damaging as much as a steel forging plant with large heavy hitting hammers to hot steel. I didn't see a quick wash-eye station either for the glass dust and particles in the air possibly infecting the eyes like a guy on a motorcycle thinking no glasses is ok but those nano particles like to embed. They also need better ergonomic air balancing material handlers. The length of the hang is extreme for a human operator moving side to side and twisting and turning. Work related injuries will be prone to happen and occur. Resistance.
I am very sure that company is very much above what is required... but you OSHA expert's know better
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Who would known that there are so many steps in producing your order. It is really impressive to see how much technology and expertise that go into their products.
You should see how much goes into the camera sensor on your vehicle. Check out Magna Electronics. They make the pcb, lenses, circuits... all in-house manufacturing. There are many fantastic operations around the world. Awesome stuff.
Amazing! would like to have more of this American manufactures, that can bring value to huge value to our community.
Matt, thanks for the manufacturers tour that you got for us to see. Amazing, and yet affordable system with alot of different options. Will keep them in mind for next project that I have that needs this type of stair design!!!
This operation is extremely impressive.
Incredible factory here. Way to go for the team developing a company like this.
Thanks, it is a lot of fun designing products based upon USA based manufacturing.
This is how its made on another level. great detail and amazing product. thank you so much for the tour......
What a shop! American Made!
Totally!
Ok you really knocked it out of the park with this video. WELL WELL DONE!
I like that this guy/ company uses mostly American made machine tools.
Excellent video Matt. This is what us GC's and CGC's love to see and need to see more often. This Company can really bring in what we and our customers want.
This is an awesome video! This guy is extremely knowledgeable in every aspect of his business. Very impressive. Thanks, Matt!
The robotic assistance and QR codes on everything are both frightening and inspiring. That would be a $80,000 stair without em
Not true. They aren't really truly using their machines to full cap. It's not seamless in material moving and process. You don't see the labor under pressure with timers and large L.E.D. clocks on the walls like larger automated factories. Cycle Time is key to meet numbers in the matrix filled with downtime issues and upkeep. Let alone hard enough to find people who even want to move at the pace that could compete with total automation. QR codes and UPC bar codes are still of the past 80's unfortunately. A few companies try to keep this tracking method on lock and viable but RFID is king really. GEOTAGS. There isn't any waste products like reels of decals and adhesive labels or less human error as a human isn't involved other than picking parts for the order. Radio signals.. this pallet, this part, this bag is exactly this and with a reader on the conveyance line for each zone your only errors are when they pucks get damaged and you just use 2 screws to replace the rfid puck and done. (And modifying the puck with the I.D. from the broken puck.) Another common method used for tracking is not just QR codes alone on print or decal but actually peened into the materials and product's material and pieces. With a diamond tip peener or Laser engraver by Keyence every sheet and piece of glass, step, bolt and beam would have identifiers unique to that exact part and order complete.
@@MacNifty Wow, you're explaining a far more advanced process. For a Wall Streeter like me, I was impressed by this guy's operation. 🤷♂️
Wow. What an incredibly impressive operation. The variety of trades that go into this system is astounding. And the way that the automation is combined with handwork, just amazing. Carpentry, glasswork, metalwork, welding, milling, staining, routing, sanding, it's mind boggling.
Thanks Matt, what a incredible company, your tour guide really knew his stuff. And its Family owned to boot, wild.
THIS WAS GREAT! KUDOS to all involved!
WOW!!!
Smart factory! Our goal!
Looking into this for multiple stairway systems for a home we are planning… I can see these guys taking the functional/industrial design specs and applying them to other product and service offerings, including non-building related items such as furniture, interior and exterior accessories, etc, in the high quality custom design/build/installation
Check out that laser system! What a cool marking system!
Thanks for covering this topic, Matt. I am currently designing my own home and had found Viewrail online a month or so ago. Seeing their factory and how much they care about quality definitely makes me want to put this company's staircase in my home.
Amazing
WOW, amazing. I don't need a new stair case but I want one.
Just an FYI that handrail in the opening shot is not code compliant in most jurisdictions (IRC 311.7.7.2). It must continue at least to the nosing of the bottom tread.
LMAO
I don't know what handrail you are talking about. But The building inspector was going to fail the Viewrail system I installed myself in my townhouse renovation in South Jersey. I had a square wood top rail that was too close to the wall it passed to fit your fingers in. I also before inspection install a secondary round metal grab rail. I called for final inspection. I was out of the house when he showed up. He told my wife he was going to fail us for the railings. I get a text from her saying this guy is an asshole he is going to fail us you better get home.
I hurry home. John the building inspector is outside on his phone. I go in the house and my wife is so upset after finishing our two year renovation that we are going to fail final! I said I'll take care of this. John comes back in the house. I say very calmly what's the problem. He says you need safety returns on your hand rails. I say how do I fix it. ( Never tell them they are wrong even if you know they are wrong- I don't think he is wrong in this case) I walk over to my railing and start to to think out loud how I can fabricate a safety return. He says it isn't going to look good and that his boss on the phone said he can let it pass if he wants to. I said that would be great if he could and he did. Sorry for the long post but I know construction guys like inspector stories.
Very impressive
Excellent walk through. Big fan of view rails. Worth every penny for the effort and quality
what an operation
Cost is high but the reality is so much goes in to making these stairs I honestly think they are a great bargain. This is quality
Totally agree! Thanks Steve
It is inspiring to see a man so passionate about the process of creating a high quality product, also for him to give so much credit to the employees is nice. Workers do a much better job when management acknowledges their efforts.
Len is an impressive guy. Awesome company he’s created!
Very impressed. American manufacturing and entrepreneurship. You can tell Len sweats the details.
Loved the tour, only thing missing is replacement part. Like if some one broke one of the glass
Is is so hard to find quality trades people.
Builders need to do more to bring in interns and young people in high school or college to gauge their interest and ability. It is important to train the next generation of quality trades people.
Nahh man, import the peons, do it for a few bob and never mind the skill...or the quality.
One word: impressive
wow quite the operation!
Made in america baby! Keep it coming boys.
I made a commitment when we launched the Viewrail line that everything would be domestic. We have held to that with the exception of some commodity screws, bolts and cable.
Onnn the DWEEB show!
Fantastic factory tour. Thanks.
What an awesome shop system ! Beautiful product but I’m not sure I’d use glass , I’d be weary of the weight and vulnerability of the glass
What a great American success story! Super well done video Matt!
Thanks, Matt!
Great to see an awesome manufacturing company in my old stomping grounds.
Love it! :)
American company doing American manufacturing; from raw to finished. NICE!
Beautiful facility and product!
I was very impressed! Cool company that’s owned by a terrific family.
For The Rich!!
The economics of these manufacturers still baffles me. Millions and millions of dollars in machinery, tons of employees, custom IT/programming for a ton of their processes... and somehow they're selling enough high-end staircases to make it all profitable. How many individual orders do you think they complete in a day?
Business is one of those weird things where there’s more money in it than you think and there’s less money in it than you think, somehow at the same time. 😂
We ship around 300 orders per day. They range from one or two balusters for a remodel to a complete stair system.
I love founder run companies ceo knows his shit
Awesome video. Keep up the good work Viewrail 👍🏻
nice operations and clean setup
Fabulous professional process
Great video! That is a lot of tech.....and the price seems dam reasonable!! Install in a day is pretty amazing!!!
I saw Viewrail on BYOT with Brent. Looks like a great company! Love your channel Matt
Thanks!
This was very interesting - schools can use this as a great example of an end to end manufacturing plant.
Now that’s badass!
Props to the Maintenance People keeping all those Automated systems calibrated and functioning.
Wow!
Really cool episode Matt. it was great to see the end to end process. How its made on steroids.
those greys are super hawt
COMMENT: nice materials and engineering, as logistics, :), supplier management - impressive.
Great video .. love it!!!
We are building a new house in Idaho, and really like this system. Hopefully there will be install guys out here.
Super impressive.
Cool interesting, I always like steel framed stairs
Woow! Woow! Woow! I love all this tech. I know it put some people out of work but didn't really because the process to do this job is too complicated. If they build these only with humans and not all the machines, they may get 3 a year out. And no human is going to make 75000 SS fittings a day. Yet there is a high paying job for 2 maybe 3 people to run those machines. I'd call this a success story. After all not everyone is going to get one of these stairs. Wouldn't go in my $200,0000 house for many reasons.😀
Very nice.
That's what those guys DO: I don't have the second floor but I want that product :-D
Sounds insanely expensive. But if you have the money, these guys also sound like the way to go.
Yes, I’m also watching the video while reading comments 😩😩😩
Nice :)
They are nice! Price per stair tread? This is a huge operation - machine shop and woodshop. 🇺🇸
I want to invest in this company Possible???
Next steps for him, mining company for raw materials and glass manufacturing.
After that, make his own robots.
Very nice 👍🇺🇸👏
Dat automation though!
Very impressive operation.
when youre goin for that corporate headquarters transitional look.
Do they offer concrete treads, or anything other than wood?
I want to work there. Actually I want to be him. Awesome company.
I need to stop watching these videos. Nearly every freaking video I keep adding to my "forever home" playlist to integrate into the plans. 🤷🏼🤣