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Shop Management - Page 113
- From The Fabricator
Can fab shops help hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak?
In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, PPE supplies are running short at clinics and hospitals. Fabricators and manufacturers are stepping up to offer face shields, safety goggles, and masks.
- From The Fabricator
Supporting technological growth and opportunity in sheet metal forming
- By Bill Frahm
- Mar 22, 2020
- Article
With the new materials and technology being developed for sheet metal forming, the industry needs to challenge the status quo. As the skilled labor pool decreases, we need to learn as much as we can about new technologies; share information with each other; and develop innovative, encouraging workplaces that support new talent.
- From The Fabricator
Understanding the latest alloy-verification technologies for tube and pipe production, fabrication
- By James Stachowiak
- Mar 20, 2020
- Article
Even when a tube and pipe producer or fabricator gets its material from a trusted source, metal alloy verification using technologies like LIBS, OES, and XRF is a good idea to prevent material mixups.
- From The Fabricator
Congress gets to reforming apprenticeship programs
- By Stephen Barlas
- Mar 20, 2020
- Blog Post
In an age of hyper-partisan politics, Democrats, Republicans, and The White House all seem interested in making it easier for people to become apprentices and fill the many open skilled labor positions in manufacturing and fabricating sectors.
- From The Fabricator
NAM calls for $1.4 trillion COVID-19 resiliency fund
- Mar 19, 2020
- News Release
The National Association of Manufacturers is calling for additional aggressive actions from the federal government to help the industry respond to COVID-19 and future public health emergencies. Among the additional actions in the updated and expanded “COVID-19 Policy Action Plan...
- From The Fabricator
Preparing for the worst, hoping for the best
As meetings get canceled and quotes dry up, metal fabrication shops have to to what they can to stay open during the increasing spread of coronavirus.
- From The Additive Report
Now available: Latest Wohlers' report on the state of additive manufacturing
- Mar 18, 2020
- News Release
Wohlers Report 2020 was released this week. Marking the 25th consecutive year of publication, it offers a worldwide review and analysis of additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing. Regarded by many as the industry’s leading source about AM, it is available in digital and printed/bound...
- From The Fabricator
The novel coronavirus and the metal fabrication supply chain
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 18, 2020
- Blog Post
As COVID-19 shocks the global economy, fabricators that can ride the waves of uncertainty will prevail.
How industry 4.0 is transforming the modern workplace with the R&D Tax Credit
- By Dean Zerbe and Tracy Lustyan
- Mar 17, 2020
- Article
Industry 4.0, digitization, networks, industrial internet of things, and connectivity—these are still somewhat new, but they already are staking out an important place in U.S. industry. Adopting these technologies isn’t inexpensive, but in the 1980s Congress realized that U.S. businesses could use some help and it enacted the R&D Tax Credit to help offset the costs of such investments.
- From The Fabricator
MEC announces COO transition
- Mar 16, 2020
- News Release
Mayville Engineering Co. (MEC), Mayville, Wis., a value-added provider of prototyping and tooling, production fabrication, coating, assembly, and aftermarket components, has named Rand Stille as COO, following the retirement of Steve Mance. Stille, who joined the company in April 2019, previously...
- From The Fabricator
Aluminum Extruders Council postpones ET '20
- Mar 16, 2020
- News Release
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), Chicago, the organizer of the Twelfth International Aluminum Technology Seminar & Exposition – ET ’20, has announced it has postponed the event, with a goal of rescheduling later in 2020. For those that have already registered for the event, reserved...
- From The Fabricator
UAW, GM, Ford, and FCA form coronavirus task force for employees
- Mar 16, 2020
- News Release
The United Auto Workers (UAW), General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) have formed a COVID-19/coronavirus task force to implement enhanced protections for manufacturing and warehouse employees at all three companies. These organizations are working to coordinate...
- From The Fabricator
5 telltale signs it’s time to replace your ERP system
- By Mark Stevens
- Mar 14, 2020
- Article
Modern technology improvements, especially Industry 4.0, may have made legacy ERP systems obsolete. Five indications should alert you that it’s time to upgrade.
- From The Welder
A metal fabricator, an air compressor, and a diesel pickup
- By Josh Welton
- Mar 14, 2020
- Blog Post
Detroit welder Josh Welton unearths an 80-gal., 600-lb. air compressor and finds a way to get it out of an old box truck and into the back of a diesel pickup truck.
- From The Welder
Harris Products Group releases corporate video
- Mar 13, 2020
- News Release
The Harris Products Group, a provider of equipment and alloys used in brazing, soldering, welding, cutting, heating, and gas control, has introduced a new corporate video that presents the company’s heritage. The firm was founded as The Harris Calorific Co. in 1899, when John Harris invented the...
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In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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