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Articles - Page 267
- From The Fabricator
Metal portraits that pop
- By Amanda Carlson
- Sep 5, 2013
- Arc Welding
- Article
Alabama metal artist captures the essence of celebrities, political figures, and influential historical figures with his 3-D metal pop portraits.
- From The Fabricator
The industry gets a quarterly physical
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 5, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
According to the inaugural Forming & Fabricating Job Shop Consumption Report, released in July, business isn’t horrible, but it’s not gangbusters either.
- From The Fabricator
So, exactly what are you going to improve?
- By Dick Kallage
- Sep 5, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
Cycle time? Labor performance? It’s easy just to pick a random area for improvement, but if a metal fabricator really wants to change operations dramatically, time and effort are needed to identify the root causes in the greatest need of correction.
- From The Fabricator
Blast the silos to unlock potential
- By Jeff Sipes
- Sep 5, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
In a company with silos, departmental functions rarely interact, and workers within those departments are focused solely on their core assignments. These silos perpetuate inward thinking, turf protection, and subpar results for customers. To improve, an organization needs to tear down these structures.
- From The Fabricator
So you want to sell?
- By Christopher Geier
- Sep 5, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
A seller wants to improve the business to drive higher EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) multiples. EBITDA indicates the profitability of a company and is considered when assessing its valuation during the sales process. As a company’s EBITDA consistently moves higher, so will the value of the company.
- From The Fabricator
Job shop estimating: Moving from cost to price
- By Gerald Davis
- Sep 5, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
In the battle to deliver a competitive price, the estimator provides the ammo for a successful response to a customer’s RFQ.
- From The Welder
Demystifying contact tips
- By Rudy Simmons
- Sep 5, 2013
- Consumables
- Article
Contact tips are highly misunderstood components in a welding gun setup. Choosing the correct contact tip for your welding application and understanding how to keep it performing at its best are just as critical as anything else needed to produce a quality weld.
Shortening the concept-to-market timeline for tube fabricators
- By A. Erman Tekkaya, Dr.-Ing., Armin Schmidt, Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing., Bernd Engel, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing., Christian Gerlach, Dr.-Ing., Christian Mathes, Dipl.-Ing., Christopher Kuhnhen, Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing., Matthias Hermes, Dr.-Ing., and Michael Rohrmann, Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.
- Sep 2, 2013
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Fabricators have quite a few bending processes to choose from—rotary draw, compression, hydraulic ram, and so on—and the variety of bent components is infinite. Matching a process to a specific application isn’t easy, and only will become more difficult as the use of tube and profiles continues to spread. This paper shows how fabricators can classify bend criteria to determine the optimal process.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing takes center stage
- By Vicki Bell
- Aug 28, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
Actions speak louder than words, especially when it comes to changing the public perception. Thanks to Manufacturing Day, more and more people are becoming more positive about manufacturing and manufacturing careers.
- From The Fabricator
Vacuum system cleans oil continuously
- Aug 27, 2013
- Additive Manufacturing
- Article
The Stauff Mini Water Vac purifies hydraulic system oil, eliminating water, gas, and particulate matter. It dehydrates and cleans most types of oils, such as lubricating, hydraulic, transformer, and switch oils, while neither removing nor altering oil additives. The water removal process is...
- From The Fabricator
Whirlpool to create 150 jobs in Oklahoma
- Aug 27, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
Whirlpool Corp., a manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, plans to add about 150 new jobs and $18.8 million in capital investment at its Tulsa, Okla., facility beginning in 2014. The project is part of the company’s plan to invest more than $1 billion in its U.S. operations. The...
- From The Fabricator
Interview with Ed Barr, author of Professional Sheet Metal Fabrication
- By Vicki Bell
- Aug 19, 2013
- Shop Management
- Article
What prompted educator Ed Barr to write a book about sheet metal fabrication? Find the answer and more about the book in this Q&A.
- From The Fabricator
Roll forming line produces roof, floor metal decks
- Aug 14, 2013
- Roll Forming
- Article
Samco offers its Deck and Panel Line, a roll forming line designed to produce roof and floor metal decks. The line includes an uncoiler, roll former, embossing unit, and flying cutoff press. A drop stacker can be added for material handling. The line features high-speed, continuous operation;...
- From The Fabricator
Fabricator breathes new life into internal combustion engines
- By Eric Lundin
- Aug 9, 2013
- Arc Welding
- Article
An automobile enthusiast since he has a youngster, Ariel Banco started developing custom-made air intakes after he graduated from college. Eventually he had such a backlog that he quit his professional career to become a full-time fabricator, making air intakes for automobiles, motorcycles, and occasionally airplanes and personal watercraft.
- From The Fabricator
Fabricator finds versatility in panel bender
- By Dan Davis
- Aug 9, 2013
- Bending and Forming
- Article
In the early 2000s, Innovated Machine & Tool Co., Newport News, Va., tried a robotic press brake for a bending job and found that it worked out well--for that job. Unfortunately, when the contract ended, so did the useful life of that robotic press brake. Since then, the shop hasn't had to worry about machine obsolescence because its panel bending technology is helping it stay on top of all sorts of bending work.
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