Fulcrum

10/01/2026

CNC programmers know workholding is where the real craft happens. Set it up right, and you save cycle time, make the part faster.

Founder & CEO Sunny Han says software works the same way now. With Archie Build, Fulcrum customers build their own custom "workholdings" — shaping their platform to fit exactly how they run their business, instead of waiting on a developer.

Thanks to Stephanie Hendrixson for making time to chat with us at IMTS! Read the full piece on AI bridging the gap between manufacturers and their software vendors: https://na2.hubs.ly/H087Jg50

What exhibitors at the 2026 IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show said about how AI has changed the relationship between vendor and user.

09/21/2026

IMTS - International Manufacturing Technology Show 2026 is officially a wrap for Team Fulcrum.

A few highlights from the week:

— Sunny had some great convos on the Building Software for the Shop Floor panel moderated by Leland Chamlin

— Our Happy Hour with Datanomix brought the shop floor community together for a night on the Seville Rooftop

— We got to chat about what's going well and how we can best support ongoing success with customers like Courtney Templin at Eagle Lake Manufacturing and Jonathan Gram at Minerva Welding

— Also meaningful to connect with folks who do a great job covering this industry so closely, including Jim Mayer, Stephanie Hendrixson, and Aditya Raghupathy.

Huge thanks to Dylan, Hannah, Abby, Charlie, Spencer, Carolyn, Cameron, Eric, TJ, Alex, Tyler and Robert for running the booth all week, and to everyone who stopped by.

Missed us at IMTS? Let's talk → https://na2.hubs.ly/H07Vwn10

09/18/2026

Final day at booth 135816 — if you're at IMTS Chicago, please stop by and say hello!

It's been quite a week connecting with customers and industry friends alike. We've loved chatting with you about Archie, Fulcrum's manufacturing AI, Control for quality management, our estimating agent, and more.

We can't overstate the value of time with you all. Thanks for your stories and for building with us.

Call anytime +1 (612) 502-0050 or book face time with our team to chat more: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07VvYD0

09/11/2026

Join Fulcrum and Datanomix for a Happy Hour at IMTS 2026 — Tuesday, Sept 15, 4:30–8:30pm at Seville Rooftop, on top of the Canopy Hotel in The Loop. Free drinks, free apps, and a room full of manufacturers.

While you're at the show, stop by Booth 135816 too. We'll have live demos of Archie and Control running on real shop data all week.

RSVP for Happy Hour: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07MKP_0

Book a booth demo: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07MKQ00

Photo: Two people we are (admittedly biased) big fans of, at our 2024 booth 😊

09/10/2026

No more copying numbers between systems.

Our new native Ryerson integration brings live pricing and order updates straight into Fulcrum. Pull current material pricing while you're building a quote, and send POs without leaving your workflow.

Quotes stay accurate. Purchasing moves faster. Built for the way manufacturing really works.

09/01/2026

Shop owners tell us the same thing in different words: Fulcrum is easy to pick up and built for how a shop actually runs. A few of our favorite lines from customers this year — swipe through. Come see it yourself at IMTS, Booth 135816.

https://na2.hubs.ly/H07vFYv0

08/26/2026

Caught the tail end of the Utah NTMA golf tournament last week — good to catch up with two of our customers, Chris from CNC PROS and Adam from Mountain CNC. Adam's planning to be in Chicago next month, so if you are too: find us at IMTS Booth 135816, and join us and Datanomix for Happy Hour on Tuesday, Sept 15, 4:30–8:30pm at Seville Rooftop. Free to attend, register here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07sCgB0

Thanks to Utah Chapter NTMA (and Kaity Van Amersfort) for having us.

08/20/2026

Before Fulcrum, Rock Run Industries handwrote 1,500 to 1,800 job travelers every week. Finding out where an order stood meant walking the floor or calling around.

Sales Manager John Schlabach didn't take the decision lightly. He looked at 12 different systems, brought the top 3 onto the shop floor, and calculated exactly what a new process would cost employees in time before asking them to adopt it.

Since April 2024, Rock Run has scaled from $36M to a projected $70M+ in revenue, without adding proportional overhead. Real-time job tracking, standardized labels, and tighter revision control did a lot of that work.

Read the full story:

How a FAB 40 sheet metal fabricator scaled from $36M to $70M+ by bringing real-time visibility to a shop that ran on paper.

08/18/2026

Our founder Sunny Han is speaking at IMTS 2026: Building Software for the Shop Floor. Tuesday, Sept 15, 1:00pm, Room S401-ABC — part of the Investor and Innovation Summit alongside builders from across manufacturing. Panel details here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07dwXT0

07/09/2026

Nobody wakes up excited to switch manufacturing software. It's disruptive, it takes time, and change on a shop floor is never simple. So a lot of shops stay on systems they've outgrown, not because they're satisfied, just because switching feels harder than enduring.

We talked to 450+ shops that made the switch anyway, off JobBOSS, Global Shop, and Epicor. The pattern was clear: the cost of staying is spread across every single day, while the cost of switching is concentrated into a few months. Once shops saw the full picture, most said the same thing: they wish they'd done it sooner.

We wrote up what we learned, including a real week-by-week look at what the switch involves. Does this sound familiar?

Many shops stay on JobBOSS, Global Shop, or Epicor out of inertia. Here's why the cost of staying is higher than the cost of switching.