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The Fabricator August 2007
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
Ridin' the storm out
- By Kate Bachman
- Oct 9, 2007
- Shop Management
- Article
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.
Lean tool and die solutions
- By Gary Gathen
- Sep 11, 2007
- Shop Management
- Article
To achieve a competitive position against low-cost countries, tool- and diemakers must reduce costs by at least 25 percent and shorten lead-time by about 50 percent.
Organizing your tooling
- By Craig Padget
- Aug 8, 2007
- Punching and Other Holemaking
- Article
Are you busy putting out fires? Is management by crisis preventing you from being proactive and establishing a preventive maintenance system for your tooling? Does your tooling gather more dust than uptime? Do you think you know your tooling needs, or do you collect data that shows your tooling...
Taking waste off the plate
- Aug 8, 2007
- Plasma Cutting
- Article
C&S Metal Fabricating, Houston, fabricates parts for the oil and petrochemical industry. When it purchased a thermal cutting table with the latest controller technology, it took the unusual step of keeping all nest designs down on the shop floor, not in the front office as many other shops do.
Ridin' the storm out Part I
- By Kate Bachman
- Aug 8, 2007
- Shop Management
- Article
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.
8 FAQs about orbital FCAW
- By John Emmerson
- Aug 8, 2007
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Mechanized pipe GTAW was first introduced about 50 years ago for nuclear power plants, and then for steam-generation components and process piping. Orbital FCAW was developed to overcome the limitations of orbital GTAW for large-diameter, heavy-wall pipe. With orbital FCAW, deposition rates of 8 lbs./hr. are achievable. Just as a power saw is a tool for a carpenter, orbital welding systems are a productivity tool for the welder that empower him or her to weld faster and more accurately.
3 ways to get the most from your laser operation
- By James Rogowski
- Aug 8, 2007
- Laser Cutting
- Article
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.—Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. To say Mr. Gates lived his conviction successfully would be a vast understatement. To say following his path would...
Gaining control of resistance welding
- By Geoff Shannon
- Aug 8, 2007
- Arc Welding
- Article
By providing time-based waveform data on current, voltage, resistance, power, force, and displacement—as well as peak and RMS values—external weld monitors are able to provide the necessary data that can be used to understand, optimize, and benchmark the resistance welding process and verify accompanying equipment
5 ways to leaner die handling
- By Ed Romaine
- Aug 8, 2007
- Materials Handling
- Article
Using conventional rack and shelving systems to store and retrieve dies is inefficient and can cause damage to dies. Five critical areas of concern are space utilization, worker productivity, potential for die damage, ergonomics and cost justification. Shops can reach new lean levels by improvements in these areas.
Mode of least resistance
- By Girish Kelkar
- Aug 8, 2007
- Shop Management
- Article
With the advent of transistorized controls in resistance welding, power supplies are available in which feedback can be used to control current, voltage, or power delivered. The use and benefits of these control modes are not well understood, leading to underutilization of the technology. It is important to understand the fundamentals of the control modes as applicable to DC and inverter power supplies and the special situations that you might encounter in their application.
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- 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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