Many new machines shift knowledge from the metal fabrication shop floor to the office, where offline programming and simulation make production much more predictable. But what about shop culture?

New owners of CR Industries in Cudahy, Wis., successfully transformed the direction of their metal fabrication shop and business in just three months.

Keeping up with ever-evolving automotive industry requirements has prompted fischer group to expand its automation capabilities with a series of tube bending cells from the same manufacturer in many company facilities.

Most metal fabrication shop owners and managers know all about chaos on the shop floor. Indiana-based ProFab (Progressive Fabricator) Alliance would like to make chaos the exception, not the rule, by uniting fabricators under an industry group of a shared management system and philosophy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The coating shop that metal fabricators select can make or break the satisfaction level of a customer and the end user of fabricated parts.

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.

When it comes to metalworking functionality, a waterjet can outproduce mills and do some things a mill can’t.