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Lean manufacturing thrives amid coronavirus crisis
- By Tim Heston
- Apr 29, 2020
- Article
Within days an Ohio Amish fabricator and its partners design, prototype, and ramp up production for thousands of field hospital cots to help COVID-19 patients.
- From The Fabricator
Lyman-Morse Fabrication launches new website
- Apr 29, 2020
- News Release
Thomaston, Maine-based Lyman-Morse Fabrication, a metal fabrication company serving the industrial, architectural, and marine markets, has launched a newly redesigned website. Featuring a streamlined design, improved functionality, and simplified access to information, the new website expands on...
- From The Fabricator
Quality assurance in manufacturing is also about promptness
- By Kevin Duggan
- Apr 28, 2020
- Article
There's always plenty of variability in a manufacturer's quality department. Establishing a guaranteed turnaround time (GTT) helps mitigate those variables, ensuring on-time delivery of quality products.
- From The Fabricator
How job shops can prevent a cash constraint during coronavirus pandemic
- By Tim Heston
- Apr 27, 2020
- Article
Cash is king, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic. For those metal fabricators and manufacturers who manage a crisis well, opportunities can abound despite mounting uncertainty.
- From The Fabricator
Cowboys, horses, bison, bears emerge from scrap metal
- By Sue Roberts
- Apr 24, 2020
- Article
South Dakota metal artist John Lopez uses repurposed scrap metal from vehicles and equipment to create lifelike sculptures.
- From The Additive Report
Generative design software: a different approach to designing
- By William Leventon
- Apr 24, 2020
- Article
Users of generative design software enter design parameters such as size, weight, manufacturing method, and cost constraints, then artificial intelligence generates design options based on their input.
- From The Fabricator
PMA elects board chairman
- Apr 23, 2020
- News Release
The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), Cleveland, has elected Troy Turnbull, president/CEO of Grandville, Mich.-based Industrial Innovations Inc., as the 2020 chairman of the PMA board of directors. He succeeds outgoing PMA board chair Troy Roberts, CEO of Denver-based Beanstalk CCW LLC....
- From The Fabricator
Solar Manufacturing joins forces with MetalPro Resources
- Apr 23, 2020
- News Release
Solar Manufacturing, Sellersville, Pa., has named MetalPro Resources, with offices in the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Cleveland areas, as sales representative for Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. MetalPro’s Jim Senne, Steve Maus, and Bill Andreski have a combined 100 years of heat-treating...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA appoints quality manager
- Apr 22, 2020
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA), Hermitage, Pa., has hired Melissa Gruszka as quality manager. She has more than 20 years of experience in all levels of manufacturing in the aerospace, automotive, and the Navy nuclear sectors. She has led various technical teams to ensure process compliance...
- From The Fabricator
JW Winco opens branch office in Canada
- Apr 21, 2020
- News Release
Standard industrial machine components supplier JW Winco Inc., A Ganter Company, New Berlin, Wis., has opened a new branch and distribution center in Woodbridge, Ont. J.W. Winco Canada Inc. has more than 6,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space and more than 2,300 sq. ft. of office space. The location...
- From The Fabricator
1980s: The search for productivity in metal fabrication
In the 1980s metal fabricators questioned what they needed to do to be as productive as peers in Japan and Germany.
- From The Additive Report
No-crash course: webcast about AM simulation software
- By Don Nelson
- Apr 17, 2020
- Blog Post
A webcast presented by CGTech/VERICUT discusses how simulation, verification, and optimization software not only prevents crashes but improves additive manufacturing operations.
- From The Fabricator
Rex-Cut Velocity mounted points grind stainless steel
- Apr 16, 2020
- Product Release
Rex-Cut Abrasives has introduced Velocity mounted points for fast stock removal on small or hard-to-reach work areas. Constructed with a zirconia alumina and aluminum oxide grain blend in a resin bond, the points are suitable for grinding stainless steel and other heat-sensitive materials. They...
- From The Additive Report
Canadian makers 3D-print PPE in response to COVID-19
- By Kip Hanson
- Apr 16, 2020
- Article
An Ontario supplier of educational products mobilizes makers to 3D-print ‘tens of thousands’ of face shields for health-care workers.
- From The Fabricator
Multimedia series highlights resilience in America’s industrial heartland
- Apr 15, 2020
- News Release
The importance of the manufacturing sector and its workers past, present, and future has been made even clearer during the COVID-19 pandemic, when American manufacturers have been asked to step up to produce the things their country needs. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has published a...
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