Month: September 2026

By Joe Egbert, VP / General Manager, Libra Industries — Dayton, Ohio Why capacity in this business moves slower than anyone wants it to When people ask whether we can take on more work, they usually mean do we have machines. The machines are the easy part. We run 45 CNC machines in Dayton. If … Read more

By Andrew Williams, Libra CEO ARTICLE 2 – POWERING THE BUILDOUT SERIES Rack PDUs come in tiers: basic, metered, monitored, switched, and the intelligent units that combine monitoring and switching in one. All of them are still being built and sold, because not every cabinet needs the same thing. Anyone who tells you the basic … Read more

By Joe Egbert, VP / General Manager, Libra Industries — Dayton, Ohio What happens between a print arriving and a number going out People ask how long a quote takes and why the number varies so much between shops. I can only speak for ours, so here is what actually happens here between a print … Read more

By Libra CEO Andrew Williams AI did not change the physics of the data center. It changed the density, which at the rack amounts to the same thing. Racks that drew 10 kilowatts five years ago are being specified at 120 to 140 and climbing, and somewhere between 30 and 50 kilowatts — depending on … Read more