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Articles tagged with "tube fabricating"
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Festivus poles for the rest of us souls: No grievances for Milwaukee fabricator who turns aluminum poles into holiday funThe Wagner Cos. has staked out its position as the world's foremost producer of Festivus poles. Yes, it's the plain pole that Frank Costanza put up in his living room as a rebuke of Christmas' commercialism in a Seinfeld episode in 1997.
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Finishing stainless steel tube and pipe efficiently: This is not your daddy’s metalOne big challenge in stainless steel tube finishing is the growing expectations about the surface finish. Tools and abrasives have improved to achieve better surface quality in less time. At the same time, fabricators require finishing methods that address health, safety, and environmental concerns.
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Welding zirconium and zirconium alloys: ArrayArray
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Imagination fabrication: To be a playground equipment fabricator, you gotta have gameBCI Burke, Fond du Lac, Wis., is the oldest playground and park and recreation equipment manufacturer in the country. As the company grew and its product offerings and colors multiplied, it found it needed to address problems with long leadtimes. Burke looked at every possibility for improvement, including processes improvements, inventory organization, manufacturing equipment purchases, and personnel productivity improvements, including crosstraining.
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When a good tube bends bad: ArrayHave you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes.
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Understanding how rotary tube and pipe cutting works: Why 25-year-old technology is still aroundInnovations and new developments in rotary tube and pipe cutting, such as high-speed cutting, minimal heat generation, special holding collets, and automatic loading, trim and sorting have reduced or eliminated time required for secondary operation, improved efficiency, and reduced costs.
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Flushing out four-letter words: rust, dirt, and wear: ArrayArray
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Flush out four-letter words — rust, dirt, and wear: Part II: Removing soils effectivelyRust, wear, and dirt cost tube fabricators and producers millions of dollars annually, and they can be the bane of tube processes. Analyzing the criteria for selecting the lubricant, cleaner, and rust preventative can help provide maximum protection.
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Cutting tube saw costs: Modern machines, modern bladesToday metal tube sawing technology is light-years ahead of where it was just five years ago. Sawing machine and saw blade advancements—Special-purpose CNC tube-sawing machines, Dynamic ball-screw feed systems, Automatic Blade-changing, Carbide-tipped blades, blade coatings, Thin-kerf Blades, segmented saw Blades, optimize tube cutting.
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French tube fabricator meets volume increase with orbital welding: ArrayCMI Enterprise is a 107-person fabricating shop located in the scenic region of Saint Sylvain D'Anjou, France, serving the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and chemical industries. CMI began experiencing growing pains. For the process equipment and heat exchanger projects, CMI selected orbital welding equipment from Polysoude [U.S. division is Astro Arc Polysoude Inc.]. to increase productivity rates. A welder can make more welds per day because the weld presents a regular geometry without overlay, and requires no secondary operations, such as grinding or cleaning.
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Lasers loom larger in tube, pipe cutting: Ushering in a new era in tube designLaser technology has a new, larger role in cutting tube and pipe. It's suitable not only for niche applications, but also for broader tube cutting applications such as cutoff.
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Luminous aluminum makes light work: Meeting challenges unique to fabricating tubes into light postsHapco Aluminum Pole Products, Abingdon, Va., fabricates aluminum light posts that must be beautiful while standing up to wind, and the forces of nature.
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Fabricator finds tubular niche: Job shop uses laser cutting to complement CNC machiningProduction Cutting Services was founded in 1985 as a machine shop to supply parts to agricultural equipment manufacturers in and around East Moline, Ill. It used saws and CNC machining centers to provide tubular parts, but later realized it needed to add more value. It purchased two lasers from Mazak Optonics Corp. It hasn't abandoned CNC machining, though. It uses the lasers to complement its other processes.
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High-speed cutting, end-finishing -- a means to an end: Fluidity is keyLeading Edge Hydraulics improves tube cutting efficiencies with a high-speed cutter, plus integrated end forming for its fluid power tube manufacturing.
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Tube fabricator bends with industry changes: 3 distinct business changes put Harco Metal Products in a good position for future successAs customers look for ways to add to their bottom-line performance, Harco Metal Products, Tempe, Ariz., has stepped forward with services that make the tube fabricator more valuable to its customer--and harder to replace.
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Tube fabricator, machine tool builder automates to accelerate: Hole punching, material handling, cutting operations run stealthilyStealth Manufacturing Inc., Savage, Minn., is a tube fabricator, and machine tool builder that automated its tube punching, laser cutting, and material handling to improve the efficiency of manufacturing its gas heater tubes and other tubular products.
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Designing for laser cutting: Fortify your frontline by designing tubular parts to maximize laser’s capabilitiesDesigning for the laser cutting process optimizes what tube fabricators can achieve.
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Machine shop sees the (laser) light: MG Products Inc. learns laser cutting tube complements its CNC machining businessMG Products Inc., Elkhart, Ind., successfully made the transition from a machine shop to a full-scale tube fabricator thanks to the investment in a laser tube cutter.
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Reflections on a perfectly symmetric ellipse: Full-time sculptor, part-time fabricator overcomes bending challengeSculptor and fabricator Brett Richards of BR Sculpture, Chicago, got a contract to make a frame for an oval mirror—a length of square tubing bent to a perfect ellipse. Not knowing too much about the vagaries of bending tube, he figured he'd spend a few thousand dollars on a simple bender. After searching for months, he happened to see an elliptical shape made from square tubing in a vendor's booth at FABTECH.
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Welding zirconium and zirconium alloys Part III: Part III: Joining dissimilar metalsZirconium can be welded successfully to other refractory and reactive metals such as titanium, vanadium, niobium, hafnuim, tantalum, and other zirconium alloys. Understanding the characteristics of these metals provides some guidance as to proper welding technique and the need for stress relieving.
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When a good tube bends bad - Part I: How to Prevent Tube From Taking a Bad TurnHave you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes.
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When a good tube bends bad: ArrayHave you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes.
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Opening the gate to efficiency: Farm equipment-maker combines new, custom machines to boost productivitySince 1945 family-owned and -operated Tarter Gate has grown in staff and sales as it has changed the design of its products. To keep up with sales, continue growing the company, and absorb as many rising costs as possible — particularly in steel and fuel prices — the company uses custom machines and new technologies to its advantage.
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Flushing out four-letter words: rust, dirt, and wear: ArrayArray
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When a good tube bends bad - Part II: How to prevent tube from taking a bad turnHave you ever started with what you thought was a good tube, ended with a bad bend, and wondered where you took a wrong turn? Correcting for defects requires some detective work, and an understanding of the bending process. This article examines tube defects and offers fixes.
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Automation in tube and pipe welding: Robots make sense for many reasonsRobots make a lot of sense for tube and pipe welding. The return on investment for a typical robot system can be seen usually within six to 24 months, depending on the parts, complexity of the system, and learning curve of the manufacturer. Quality improvements are typically seen immediately. In addition, by tracking the process, manufacturers can make changes to improve production time and determine the throughput of the system for accurate part production projections.
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A trek in product design change and laser cutting: How a manufacturer takes its bicycles from concept to customerTREK Bicycles uses new CAM software to laser-cut high-performance bicycle frame tubing.
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Fitness equipment manufacturer pumps up: Laser leads the way in cutting flat and tubular partsParamount Fitness Corp., a manufacturer of strength training equipment, used to purchase small quantities of laser-cut parts from outside vendors. Its desire for a laser could not be justified because the quantities of parts were so low. Engineers at TRUMPF worked with Paramount to create special fixtures so that a TC L 2530 sheet metal laser could handle tubular parts. The company soon found the new laser running 10 hours per day, six days a week. In keeping with the company's strategy to reduce direct labor, it soon justified a TUBEMATIC to handle its tubular parts.
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