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The Fabricator August 2018
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.
Capacitor discharge resistance welding emerges as important projection welding option
- By Dan Davis
- Aug 21, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
Capacitor discharge welding delivers a laser welded-like joint without the expense and extensive setup.
5 components to an effective kaizen event
- By Jeff Sipes
- Aug 17, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
Continuing his series on a hypothetical fabricator implementing lean, Jeff Sipes digs deep into the kaizen event, including what happens and how to keep it focused.
Bending aluminum 101: How to bend 6061-T6 aluminum
- By Steve Benson
- Aug 17, 2018
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Learn about the difficulties of bending 6061T6 aluminum. The challenges are many but they can be overcome when you know how to bend aluminum correctly.
A 3-D CAD modeling case study: Using the prototype to develop a design for production
- By Gerald Davis
- Aug 17, 2018
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Design for manufacturability requires communication to avoid wasted design effort.
New tax law opens opportunities for metal fabricators
- Aug 16, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
Changes to accounting methods, capitalization requirements, bonus depreciation, and accelerated expensing all sound pretty dry and boring. But if a fabricator develops the tax strategy around these changes, it may reap the benefits.
M&A and the hunt for talented employees
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 13, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
A tight labor market means that companies looking to grow substantially are looking for alternatives, one being acquisition. It isn’t easy or without risk, though software and data analytics are mitigating some of that risk and streamlining the process.
Fabricator raises awareness for sunken Le Griffon ship
- By Treena Hein
- Aug 10, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
Snyder Metal Fabricating fabricates a metal sculpture of a sunken ship for a roundabout in La Salle, Ont.
First responders look to pick up speed
- By Rob Colman
- Aug 8, 2018
- Laser Cutting
- Article
With new quoting software and machinery, New Paradigm Laser, Cambridge, Ont., hopes to be more responsive to customers.
Don’t let your fiber laser implementation fail
- By Brian Blair, Cornel TerreBlanche, and Suzanne Warden
- Aug 7, 2018
- Laser Cutting
- Article
7 keys to ensure a fiber laser implementation doesn’t fail
Why collaboration is critical in metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 7, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
In many ways Max Weiss Co. and Washington Metal Fabricators couldn’t be more different. One is a structural bending shop, the other is a sheet metal fabricator. But both exemplify how important customer and supplier collaboration is.
Bending parts revolves around modeling software (video-enhanced)
- By Kate Bachman
- Aug 6, 2018
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Louis Industries has survived to its third generation, in part, by using sophisticated press brake part design software that works out the kinks before the job hits the floor.
Remaster the 5 principles of lean manufacturing
- By Shahrukh Irani, Ph.D.
- Aug 6, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
A custom fabricator isn’t Toyota. So how can a job shop adapt lean manufacturing for a low-volume, high-product-mix operation? It can start by revisiting the original principles of lean.
3 reasons laser marking makes sense for structural steel fabricating
- By Dan Davis
- Aug 3, 2018
- Shop Management
- Article
Laser marking of fitting and welding instructions holds the potential to change a structural steel fab shop in a major way.
3 angles on press brake training: Part III
- By Kate Bachman
- Aug 3, 2018
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Sometimes the best press brake training is from the OEM’s expert staff.
A powder coating primer for metal fabricators
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 1, 2018
- Finishing
- Article
When a fab shop launches a powder coating department, equipment is important, but most important of all is process knowledge. A coating operation can’t be effective without it.
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- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 05/07/2024
- Running Time:
- 67:38
Patrick Brunken, VP of Addison Machine Engineering, joins The Fabricator Podcast to talk about the tube and pipe...
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