CAD guru Gerald Davis discusses how Fold/Unfold tools can be used with the Fill Pattern tool when working with sheet metal tube models.

AI can assist metal manufacturing businesses with data capture for FMEA and reliability programs.

Steve Benson details traditional methods for setting a manual backgauge on a press brake, then discusses how to improve material springback estimates.

In early April, Nucor took the unprecedented step of publishing its pricing for hot-rolled coil. Will it stabilize domestic steel pricing?

With employee stock ownership plans capable of keeping employees engaged, why don’t more companies pursue this organizational structure?

Fabricators and Manufacturers Association Annual Meeting attendees took a deep dive into operational excellence, skill, and what will define future success: good systems, good data, and, most important, good employees.

Columnist Caleb Chamberlain backward casts his eye, to quote Robert Burns, and delves into the challenges of moving shop, laying bare the best-laid plans of mice and men.

A new federal rule might allow metal fabricators to seek out less expensive metal from overseas sources for infrastructure projects.

Columnist Caleb Chamberlain recalls the days of the IBM-compatible computer, massive calculators, and a starkly different time in U.S. manufacturing. Things have changed—and mostly for the better.

Benefiting from reshoring and resurging demand, metal fabricators have enjoyed greater profits and, just as critical, employees have enjoyed higher pay. That's according to two recent industry surveys.