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Blog Posts - Page 66
- From The Fabricator
Going once, going twice … buying shop equipment at an auction
- By Nick Martin
- Apr 26, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Taking advantage of used-equipment sales and auctions is one way to help outfit your shop. Barnes MetalCrafters’ Tim and Nick Martin picked up some bargains at a recent auction. They also had a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind.
- From The Fabricator
Steel industry looks for loopholes in Buy American provisions
- By Stephen Barlas
- Apr 21, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
As the Trump administration looks to strengthen the use of domestic steel in U.S. pipeline projects, some in the U.S. steel industry seek to influence the final definition of “domestic content” as it relates to the iron and steel required of U.S. pipeline builders.
- From The Fabricator
Fabricators optimistic about near term
- By Chris Kuehl
- Apr 21, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Metal fabricating managers and shop owners reveal an increase in orders and a reluctance to reduce their work forces as they conclude the first quarter, according to the FMA's Fabricating & Forming Job Shop Consumption Report.
- From The Fabricator
Likability, common sense, and courtesy in the workplace
- By Vicki Bell
- Apr 20, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
What do all jobs have in common? Unless you are the sole proprietor, worker, and customer all in one (I haven’t met one yet), you deal with people. Even those of us who work in remote home offices do this via email and phone calls. These people can make your job enjoyable, tolerable, intolerable, or an absolute hell. These people include you and me.
- From The Welder
Still Building America—Inspired by a heavy metal-playing welder
- By Josh Welton
- Apr 18, 2017
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Continuing his series about young fabricators, Josh Welton introduces us to Steve Habbestad, who owns Habbco Welding, Sacramento, Calif. Steve was inspired to weld by a family member who made it look “cool.”
- From The Fabricator
Out of Office
- By Christopher A. Fagnant
- Apr 4, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
In his inaugural post on The Fabricator Blog, Qualtek President Christopher Fagnant shares what his monthly posts will cover. For example, exploring “the many ways in which manufacturing companies like ours are engaging their communities to ensure the previous 100 years of U.S. manufacturing experience isn’t relegated to the history sections of Wikipedia.”
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing can't do it alone
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 29, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Manufacturing companies that once provided the stepping stone to a middle-class existence for so many in major U.S. cities simply don’t exist. If urban areas are to be revitalized, people will have to come together to make those areas livable for all, not just those in $700,000 flats in a refurbished factory building.
- From The Fabricator
Getting real about manufacturing’s image
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 29, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
For the most part, manufacturing is no longer dark, dirty, and dangerous. Sadly, "for the most part" does not mean "all," as the cover of the most recent Bloomberg Businessweek made abundantly clear.
- From The Fabricator
A good shop takes care of its own
- By Nick Martin
- Mar 28, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
‘They say that everyone is replaceable, but some people and their positive work ethic just aren’t.’ Such is the case with Miss Joyce, who is a very important member of the Barnes Metalcrafters family.
- From The Fabricator
The future of fabrication is now
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 23, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Augmented reality and verbalizing operating instructions to machine tools may be coming to your shop floor sooner than you realize.
- From The Fabricator
Your shop’s No. 1 priority
- By Vicki Bell
- Mar 2, 2017
- Safety
- Blog Post
Many aspects vie for your attention in your shop. You have to juggle many plates and wear many hats. One priority comes before all else. The failure to make it No. 1 has some serious consequences.
- From The Fabricator
You can’t make all customers happy all of the time
- By Nick Martin
- Feb 21, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Custom fabricating shops see all kinds of jobs, large and small. Flexibility is important. But when a small job results in multiple changes that require a revised quote and the customer isn’t happy, it might be better to let the job go. Yes, you need to please customers, but you also need to make money.
- From The Fabricator
A Big Easy education
- Feb 16, 2017
- Automation and Robotics
- Blog Post
Metal fabricators aren't known to take a lot of time away from the shop, but sometimes they need to break away from the daily grind to think more strategically about the business. The FABRICATOR's Leadership Summit at the FMA annual meeting in New Orleans, March 8-10, is just the place where these metal fabricators need to be.
- From The Fabricator
Illegal immigration and manufacturing—a conundrum?
- By Vicki Bell
- Feb 16, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
We all have thoughts on the prevailing concerns in the U.S. these days. Families, friendships, and marriages are breaking up over differing opinions of who should be in the White House and what should be done about various issues—Obamacare, the Keystone Pipeline and the environment in general, and immigration, particularly the current illegal population and refugees. In resolving all of these and other matters, we need to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- From The Fabricator
What shop owners really look for in employees
- By Vicki Bell
- Feb 9, 2017
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Metal fabricating covers a wide range of technical skills. What shop owners are looking for in new hires depends on the shop’s processes and the services it provides. In this post, three shop owners share some new-hire criteria.
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