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Fabricator helps entrepreneurs grow
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April 24, 2013
Figure 1 Tyrous Ward (center) launched Accufab with his sons Kerry (left) and Mark in 1991. The shop has endured two downturns without a substantial drop in business. The entrepreneur started in one of the oldest of business... Read more... -
Keeping pace in sheet metal manufacturing
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December 3, 2012
Figure 1 With many fiber lasers now available with 4-kW power sources, these machines are cutting thicker materials at a much quicker pace and further increasing the speed in which they can cut thin-gauge material. Innovation is... Read more... -
EuroBLECH 2012 recap: Fighting for more efficiency
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December 3, 2012
Figure 1 Salvagnini was a pioneer in laser fiber machines, debuting its first machine at EuroBLECH 2008. At this year’s event, the company demonstrated the versatility of its L5 fiber laser as the machine cut thick materials and... Read more... -
Metal fabrication, the Swiss way
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November 8, 2011
Several years ago representatives from the Sultan of Oman approached Walter Maurer, president of Waterjet AG in Switzerland. They wanted a model of the sultan’s palace made out of sheet elements, trees and all. Each had to be of exotic,... Read more... -
Diverse, quick, and growing
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April 1, 2011
Figure 1 These parts were cut with a laser, bent with a press brake, machined with a CNC turning center, and welded by a robot. Cupples’ J&J Co. accomplished it all in-house. When a salesperson at Cupples' J&J Co. meets a... Read more... -
Press brake operators: The next generation
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January 27, 2011
Figure 1 Decades ago such complex parts may not have been economical to manufacture, considering the setup time required for the various bend geometries. This isn’t necessarily true today. Good press brake operators are hard to... Read more... -
Fabricator goes 3-D
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January 10, 2011
At Maloya Inc., David Puckett (left) and Marc Anderes use a CMM to qualify a 0.625-in.-thick A36 steel component fabricated using a laser cutting center and a CNC mill. Photo courtesy of CNC Software Inc. Outside the Pentagon are 184... Read more... -
The importance of focal positions in laser cutting
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January 8, 2010
All children ultimately discover the combined power of sunlight and a magnifying glass. The ability to focus the sun's energy through the magnifying lens and set something afire absolutely fascinates them. They discover that as they move... Read more... -
Disposing of waterjet abrasive—the right way
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September 1, 2009
Photo courtesy of Bystronic Inc For many first-time owners of abrasive waterjet systems, the question of whether they will be dealing with hazardous waste in either the abrasive or the water looms large. Companies don't want to expose... Read more... -
Bending outside the box
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January 27, 2009
Ask 10 press brake operators how they would bend a particular part, and you're likely to get 10 different answers. But all would agree on parts that gave them major headaches, such as ones with different (and sometimes unwarranted) radii... Read more... -
Laser cutting for the first time
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December 15, 2008
For many shops in the metal fabricating world, laser cutting capability was never a prerequisite to success. M&L Industries, Rogers, Minn., knew that firsthand; it had been doing just fine without lasers for the last 30 years. The company had... Read more... -
Reasons for a press brake upgrade
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October 14, 2008
Figure 1 Adaptive bending, either through laser sensing (pictured here) or internal devices, can help overcome problems with material variation. Photo courtesy of LVD Strippit, Akron, N.Y. The press brake remains one of those last bastions... Read more... -
What's involved in abrasive waterjet maintenance?
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October 14, 2008
Editor's Note: This article is adapted from Jeff Day's paper, "Maintenance Components for an Abrasive Waterjet," presented at the FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show, Oct. 6-8, Las Vegas, ©2008 by the Fabricators & Manufacturers... Read more... -
Waterjet makes it into the mainstream
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February 12, 2008
An OMAX waterjet performs precision cutting. Today precision waterjet cutting often can eliminate secondary finishing operations. Abrasive waterjet cutting could be on the cusp of something big. For years metal fabricators viewed it as... Read more... -
2 strategies for optimizing bending operations
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January 15, 2008
Offline bending software expedites the bending process. Metal fabricators must continuously seek new ways to maximize their uptime and improve their staff utilization to combat the skilled worker shortage. Fabricators typically encounter... Read more... -
Hyperactive fabrication
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December 11, 2007
Clay Andrews wanted to jump right into competitive racing, so his company, Hype Manufacturing, bought the latest machine tools, including five-axis machining centers, tube bending equipment, a waterjet cutting system, and a 4,400-W laser... Read more... -
Increasing waterjet cutting profitability
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November 6, 2007
Over the past five years, the number of waterjet cutting machines sold worldwide, both abrasive and pure water, has increased by an average of 18 percent annually. That growth is projected to continue for the foreseeable future. Fabricators... Read more... -
Safety still pressing for press brakes
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January 9, 2007
Press brake safety equipment must ensure safety without hindering speed or productivity. The leading trend in press brake safety is to protect the operator without sacrificing speed or hampering operators' ability to work productively,... Read more... -
Achieving precision and diversification with laser and waterjet technologies
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January 9, 2007
Today's laser and waterjet cutting technologies offer flexibility for precision applications in a range of materials. The choice to use either technology is in part determined by the material to be processed, because both technologies are capable... Read more... -
Manufacturing evolution in the job shop
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October 10, 2006
Because of their press brakes' dynamic crowning and springback compensation technology, Gardner Manufacturing operators can bend long parts without worrying about the material bowing or twisting. Bronze Age, Iron Age, Industrial... Read more... -
Trailblazing with waterjet
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November 8, 2005
With waterjet cutting, Johnson Enterprises has been able to attract new customers outside of its core sawmill industry customer base. A long way from its modest machine shop beginnings 20 years ago, Johnson Enterprises Inc. in Val... Read more... -
Racing against the clock
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December 7, 2004
Time is a nonrenewable resource, and to be competitive, manufacturers must use each second to their best advantage. No manufacturer knows this better than Prince Industries Inc., a contract manufacturer that supplies precision-machined and... Read more... -
Laser cell system gives job shop the home field advantage
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February 12, 2004
Photo courtesy of Lund Industries Inc., Wheeling, Ill. No stranger to the economic fluctuations in the industry, the 50-employee company has weathered the heavy volume demands in the economic boom of the late '90s as well as the current... Read more... -
Focusing on tube cutting lasers
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November 7, 2002
Object It travels at 186,287.490 miles per second (299,792,458 meters per sec.). Its visible spectrum ranges from 400 to 700 nanometers. Its smallest unit is a packet of energy, a photon. While its chief use is illumination, it has many... Read more... -
Science Nonfiction
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August 8, 2002
Forty years ago no one would have thought it possible to cut plate steel with focused light. Over time it has not only become possible but common in manufacturing operations. However, making this science fiction into fact wasn't enough,... Read more... -
Unattended operation of CO2laser process systems
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May 18, 2002
During the 1980s the term lights-out as it applied to CO 2 laser processing equipment had a different meaning than it does today. In those days a lights-out environment meant completing the sheets that were left on the cutting table by the... Read more...
