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Articles - Page 6
- From The Fabricator
Girls discover new career paths at manufacturing camp
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Oct 17, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Campers at Penn College’s Tinker-Belles manufacturing camp for young women spent a week learning about metal cutting, robotics, EDM, CAD modeling, and welding.
- From The Fabricator
ERP software for the job shop reaches a turning point
- By Tim Heston
- Oct 14, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
ERP, MES, CRM, PLM, WMS—the manufacturing software initialisms go on and on. The trick is accessing all the data and turning it into useful information. The latest software, some with AI-based interfaces, aims to do just that.
- From The Fabricator
The business case for investing in high-powered laser cutting
- By Tim Heston
- Oct 13, 2023
- Laser Cutting
- Article
Tennessee-based Cupples’ J&J Co. has been pushing the limits of high-power fiber laser cutting for years. The strategy has helped the metal fabricator become a leader in rapidly growing markets.
- From The Fabricator
LA shop’s steel structures to help transform neighborhood
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Oct 12, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Article
More than two dozen 15-ft.-tall steel shade structures from metal shop Cinnabar will adorn several new parks in Los Angeles’ Crenshaw neighborhood for the Destination Crenshaw initiative.
- From The Welder
6 design considerations for localized weld fume control
- By Kyle Billy
- Oct 11, 2023
- Safety
- Article
Shops have a few things to consider when designing an optimal localized fume extraction system for its welders, employees, and operations.
- From The Fabricator
One metal fabricator’s advice to build a better shop culture
- By Tim Heston
- Oct 11, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Article
In 2012, this Wichita, Kan., operation had a limited customer base and a poor reputation. Today, the shop has won several quality and safety awards, and revenue has grown eight times over.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing camp provides new opportunities for an overlooked population
- By Dan Davis
- Oct 9, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs sponsored an inclusion camp at VPI in Appleton, Wis., to show young people with special needs their potential for a manufacturing career.
- From The Fabricator
Lean principles help to streamline assembly operations
- By Eric Whitley
- Oct 6, 2023
- Assembly and Joining
- Article
The same continuous improvement tools that help metal fabricating operations to hum can help with the assembly department as well.
- From The Fabricator
NumberUp Innovation STEM camp introduces kids to manufacturing
- By Gareth Sleger
- Oct 3, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Miami University engineering students and the Cincinnati Recreation Commission ran the multiweek NumberUp workshop as part of the NBT summer camp series.
- From The Fabricator
3 steps to refreshing a metal fabrication shop's press brake department
- By Tim Heston
- Oct 2, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
What happens to a metal fabrication shop when experienced skilled workers leave a forming department? If the process isn’t under control, chaos can reign.
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- Oct 2, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
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- From The Welder
Reaping the benefits of welding fixtures
- By Doug Scheetz
- Sep 29, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Article
Welding fixtures benefit welders, the shop, and operations. But when is it time to build the fixture, and what is the right type?
- From The Welder
Camp offers crash course to teens about welding and careers in skilled trades
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Sep 28, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Article
Teenagers spent a week learning about welding and job opportunities at a camp hosted by Illinois Valley Community College and funded through the Nuts, Bolts, & Thingamajigs Foundation.
- From The Fabricator
Precision sheet metal folding technology enables kit manufacturing
- By David Prokop
- Sep 27, 2023
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Flexible metal folding equipment that form one unique sheet metal part after another open the door to kit-based manufacturing. When jobs flow as kits, work-in-process plummets, lead times shorten, and overall throughput can go through the roof.
Phillips leads with people-first mentality
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Sep 26, 2023
- Shop Management
- Article
Angela Phillips never even planned to work at the company she now leads as an award-winning CEO. But she credits her father and her ace leadership team for the success of that company.
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