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- From The Fabricator
What makes datum features good or bad?
- By Mike Matusky
- May 6, 2023
- Testing and Measuring
- Article
Mike Matusky answers questions about datum features and the roles of designers, drafters, and engineers in part production.
- From The Fabricator
A manufacturer's disciplined approach to troubleshooting component problems
- By Bill Frahm
- May 5, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
A press shop experiences many types of failure. The right approach to troubleshooting can give employees better skills for the process and prevent more failures in the first place.
Metal fabricator looking at the future through laser-cut tube
- By Lincoln Brunner
- May 2, 2023
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Unifab began life as a bus manufacturer. Today, its evolution continues apace with its latest tube laser, which it hopes will continue to win it new customers.
- From The Fabricator
How augmented reality is being used to train the next generation of welders
- By Tim Heston
- May 1, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Article
Augmented reality can’t replace the real-world experience for a welder, but the technology can better prepare welding students before they even strike their first real arc.
- From The Fabricator
Stamping Die Essentials: Draw reduction calculations
- By Art Hedrick
- Apr 28, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
In this sixth article on die design and construction fundamentals, Art Hedrick explains the calculations needed to perform a draw reduction.
- From The Fabricator
How to use imported CAD models
- By Gerald Davis
- Apr 28, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
CAD guru Gerald Davis shows how imported CAD can be modified almost as fast as it can be downloaded.
- From The Fabricator
A manufacturer's complicated reality of scheduling, measuring performance
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Apr 26, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Aside from quality, supply chain, personnel, compliance, and hosts of other complexities, scheduling alone is complicated for many manufacturing businesses. So how is one Utah-based metal fabrication shop tackling the high-mix scheduling problem? OSH Cut Founder/CEO Caleb Chamberlain explains in his latest column.
- From The Fabricator
Finding the best custom coater for fabricated metal parts
- By Korey Bell
- Apr 25, 2023
- Finishing
- Article
The coating shop that metal fabricators select can make or break the satisfaction level of a customer and the end user of fabricated parts.
- From The Fabricator
Precision metal fabrication needs more exposure to those outside manufacturing
- By Tim Heston
- Apr 24, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Last month's FMA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas highlighted the need for outreach, but also showed all the enriching teamwork and problem-solving that the metal fabrication sector has to offer the manufacturing industry as whole.
- From The Fabricator
How waterjets stack up against traditional metalworking functionality
- By Ivan Kondeykin
- Apr 24, 2023
- Waterjet Cutting
- Article
When it comes to metalworking functionality, a waterjet can outproduce mills and do some things a mill can’t.
- From The Fabricator
Bump bending and air forming sheet metal on the press brake
- By Steve Benson
- Apr 20, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Press brake guru Steve Benson answers questions about air forming and bump bending, including the many variables involved in each application.
- From The Fabricator
Ask the Expert: How can metal stampers achieve ever-tightening dimensional tolerance requirements?
- By Thomas Vacca
- Apr 20, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
It is possible to stamp to tight tolerances, as long as metal forming shops have the right tool frame, guide system, lead strip piloting, and strip progression clamping and use design for manufacturability with each tool.
- From The Welder
Aluminum Etc.: What do you call a woman who welds? A welder
- By Gina Cutts
- Apr 19, 2023
- Aluminum Welding
- Article
Aluminum Etc. columnist Gina Cutts says women who weld are simply welders—albeit welders who have had to prove time and time again that they belong.
- From The Fabricator
The robotic press brake gets flexible for metal fabrication operations
- By Peter Vandromme
- Apr 18, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Historically, for robotic press brake bending to make economic sense, a job needed to be of a certain volume in a metal fabrication shop. That, however, is starting to change across the industry.
- From The Fabricator
Perfecting the job shop schedule in metal manufacturing
- By Tim Heston
- Apr 17, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
A job shop’s production schedule is never perfect, but that doesn’t mean metal fabricators can’t improved upon it.
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