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Articles tagged with "percent"

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	Roll out the shelving By: Don Dykstra, Contributing Writer Just as office managers look for the most efficient way to store files, shop managers must look for efficient ways to store heavy, expensive dies. Many offices have file cabinets with an index system for locating files quickly. The shop equivalent for storing and retrieving dies may be air-powered rollout shelf units. Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Materials Handling
	Carbon content, steel classifications, and alloy steels By: Bob Capudean, Contributing Writer Steel classification is important in understanding what types are used in certain applications and which are used for others. For example, most commercial steels are classified into one of three groups: plain carbon, low-alloy, and high-alloy. Steel classification systems are set up and updated frequently for this type of information. Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Metals/Materials
	Substance abuse in the workplace—Part 1 By: Vicki Bell, Web Content Manager Publish date: March 27, 2003 Tech cell: Safety
	Employees value workplace health and wellness programs By: Vicki Bell, Web Content Manager Sixty percent of respondents to a recent survey consider health and wellness programs a viable incentive to stay at their current jobs. But it must be the right program, one that addresses the employees' concerns. Publish date: April 24, 2003 Tech cell: Safety
	A growing force in Washington, D.C.: Agencies assist fabricators, manufacturers By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal� Publish date: October 12, 2004 Tech cell: For CEOs
	Keep it clean: Selecting the right waste treatment option By: John Burke, Contributing Writer Are you having problems with wastewater discharges from your metalworking facility? Have you received a violation notice from your sewer use authority? Do your environmental experts speak a language you don't understand or continually reject new fluids you would like to use? Or perhaps you would like to use new or improved lubricants, cleaners, rust preventives, or detergents, but the products you've tried have failed the waste treatment tests. Publish date: August 14, 2003 Tech cell: For Engineers
	Ridin' the storm out: Array By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor Array Publish date: Array Tech cell: Array
	Ridin' the storm out Part I: Part I: Lean helps stamper squeeze out �automotive 5 percent� By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal� Editor While other automotive suppliers are struggling or going under, Tier II supplier of ride control components Tennessee Stampings established a lean program that merited a regional manufacturs' award and helped them grow 23 percent per year. Publish date: August 8, 2007 Tech cell: Fab Stories
	Siege planning or stategic planning By: Scot Stevens, Contributing Writer "Globalization isn't news," said Lawrence J. Kendzior, a partner at Gleeson Sklar Sawyers & Cumpata LLP (GSSC), a privately held accounting firm that focuses on what it calls "middle-market manufacturers." "The news is that it's suddenly impacting companies that have never before been affected." Publish date: April 24, 2003 Tech cell: Industry Trends and Analysis
	Any good news in manufacturing? By: Vicki Bell, Web Content Manager Publish date: August 14, 2003 Tech cell: Industry Trends and Analysis
	Using binder force control, force modulation, to improve part quality, stamping efficiency By: Taylan Altan, Contributing Writer Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Press Technology
	Ridin' the storm out: Array By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor Array Publish date: Array Tech cell: Array
	Minimizing wall thickness variation in seamless tubing By: Wynn H. Kearns, Contributing Writer All mechanical steel tubing has some amount of wall thickness variation. Wall variation in welded tubing results from the strip manufacturing and tube welding processes. Seamless tube, which is created from a hot billet of solid steel, has wall variation that results from tooling wear, bearing and shaft variation, and normal hot-process variation. The wall thickness in seamless tubing varies in the cross section and along the tube's length. Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Tube and Pipe Production
	Inverter versus transformer power supplies for aluminum GTAW By: Frank Armao, Contributing Writer Publish date: August 28, 2003 Tech cell: Aluminum Welding
	Leaping the hurdles to press brake automation By: Jerry Rush, Contributing Writer Understanding the obstacles to automating press brakes requires an analysis of the bending process. Publish date: June 12, 2001 Tech cell: Bending
	Discovering the limits of press brake tooling By: Steve D. Benson, Contributing Writer One of the most important aspects of press brake forming is tooling selection. What are the tools capable of? What kinds of loads can they withstand? Publish date: May 30, 2001 Tech cell: Bending
	Hot spots for U.S. metal fabricated exports By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal� Editor Increased global competition for customers on their home turf has driven U.S. metal fabricators to throw their nets wider to international markets. With this in mind, fabricators should look at the lists of the countries purchasing the most U.S. metal fabricated tools, machinery, products, and partially assembled goods as a road map to export opportunities. Publish date: July 10, 2003 Tech cell: Bending