32 YEARS. 42 PLANTS. ONE STANDARD.

Steve Baumgartner built his career on the floor - not in the boardroom.

Two tours as Plant General Manager. Maintenance and Reliability Director across 42 facilities. The kind of experience that doesn't come from a textbook or a framework built in a consulting firm.

Steve has spent three decades finding the millions that operational drift hides - in downtime, in inefficiency, in systems that were never built to scale. That work became FORGE OS - a five-phase engagement model built from what actually works inside a plant.

Fire Forged Enterprise exists for one reason: to give plant leaders the operational independence their organizations should have had years ago.

A group of people in a conference room, some talking on phones, some working on laptops, with papers and water bottles on the table. The person taking the selfie is a man with short blond hair and a beard, wearing a blue shirt. There are six other people around the table, some with glasses, and one with a red shirt. There is a whiteboard on the back wall with writing and charts, and a large box of Monster energy drink on the table.

32 Years

2x Plant GM

M&R Director,

42 Plants

find the missing millions.

Every engagement starts with a conversation. Tell us what's happening in your operation and we'll tell you if FORGE is the right fit.