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More from Tim Heston
- From The Fabricator
How do you define good company culture anyway?
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 10, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
How does a fabricator build a culture that adopts, embraces, and sustains lean manufacturing? An environment that encourages idea generation may be a good start.
- From The Fabricator
Automation, health, safety, and longshoremen
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 24, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The labor disupute at the West Coast ports is an odd, complex, ironic cog in the global supply chain.
- From The Fabricator
Odessa, oil, and the welding arc
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 19, 2015
- Arc Welding
- Article
Investors worry about how the drop in oil prices will affect the energy boom. The people on the front lines—including the fabricators and pipe welders—don’t seem to be terribly worried. Some even welcome a slight slowdown, because it will give everyone time to catch up.
- From The Fabricator
Metal fabrication meets a seller’s market
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 18, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
Manufacturing is cool again, and fabricators wanting to sell their business are benefiting from a seller’s market. Nevertheless, high revenue concentration, a shallow talent pool, poor cash flow, reliance on sales from a single sector, and other factors still throw up red flags.
- From The Fabricator
Teaching: A metal fabricator’s secret sauce
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 17, 2015
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Bob Moehlman has welded pipe for more than 50 years, including 30 years at Superior Pipe Fabricators, a Los Angeles-based shop he helped launch in 1984. The shop’s success hasn’t come by using the latest and greatest pipe welding technology, but instead through teaching—showing the inexperienced employees the ropes, developing their talent, and giving them a career.
- From The Fabricator
People: A fabricator’s greatest competitive advantage
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 4, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Competing fabricators can invest in the same technology and software, but they can't employ the same people.
- From The Fabricator
Intelligent part identification: Keeping track of it all
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 4, 2015
- Materials Handling
- Article
Modern forming technology has made kit-based part flow much easier. But when you’re dealing with a dynamically nested sheet, with kits of different parts, pieces can get lost in the mix. Fabricators can tackle this problem with intelligent nesting and part identification.
- From The Fabricator
An exit strategy for the metal fabrication job shop owner
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 3, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
In their book Cashing Out of Your Business, authors Kathleen Richardson-Mauro and Jane M. Johnson tackle not just the nuts and bolts of selling an enterprise—revenue concentration, profitability, health of the market—but also the personal elements. When an owner sells a business, his or her life changes in a dramatic way.
- From The Fabricator
Quality springs forward with 3-D printing
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 29, 2015
- Testing and Measuring
- Article
Newcomb Spring Corp. makes its quality assurance more efficient by upgrading its inspection equipment and investing in 3-D printing. The company’s move shows how advanced inspection and additive manufacturing work together.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing jobs pay well, right?
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 28, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Manufacturing wages vary widely, and like anything in life, the wage story isn't simple or straightforward.
- From The Fabricator
Done-in-one meets structural fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 23, 2015
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
New system introduces full automation to structural fabrication, including cutting, beam and plate handling, and welding.
- From The Fabricator
Proactive maintenance, predictable performance in metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 23, 2015
- Testing and Measuring
- Article
At Midland Metal Products, all machines have asset tags on them. So do calipers and tape measures—and even brooms—and it’s all tracked in a computerized maintenance management system. Tracking asset downtime has made life on the shop floor much more predictable.
- From The Fabricator
Metal fabricators spend big to build capacity
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 22, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
Overall projected capital spending growth has slowed from the dramatic rebound seen postrecession, but the growth continues, especially in capacity-building equipment.
- From The Fabricator
Free education and political football
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 19, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Making community college free is a bold move, but it shouldn't be used as a political tool. Unfortunately, that's the reality.
- From The Fabricator
The one collar of the knowledge worker
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 15, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Technological devices are changing the world, but in a very human way. It may not be about what technology can do. Instead, it may be about how technology changes our lives.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 04/16/2024
- Running Time:
- 63:29
In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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