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Shop Management - Page 112
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing supply chains, jobs reports show obvious downturn amid COVID-19 crisis
- By Gareth Sleger
- Apr 6, 2020
- Blog Post
No surprise: March's manufacturing supply chain and unemployment reports show a significant downturn amid COVID-19 crisis. And April's numbers are only expected to continue the decline.
- From The Fabricator
STI/SPFA hires executive VP
- Apr 6, 2020
- News Release
The Steel Tank Institute/Steel Plate Fabricators Association, Lake Zurich, Ill., has hired Tim O'Toole as executive vice president. He succeeds Wayne Geyer, who will retire in late 2020. O'Toole has worked for the past 18 years in nonprofit association marketing and communications, membership...
- From The Fabricator
Digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and IIoT in the fab shop
When manufacturers and metal fabricators delve beyond the buzzwords, they begin to see just how much inefficiency there is in the order-to-cash cycle and how digitization can help in the fab shop.
- From The Fabricator
TRUMPF names 2D TruLaser product manager
- Apr 2, 2020
- News Release
TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, Conn., a provider of sheet metal fabricating and laser equipment, has appointed Salay Quaranta as 2D TruLaser product manager. Quaranta has been with the company for five years, working with the Laser Technology Group as the industry manager for medical and TruMark systems....
- From The Fabricator
Metal fabricators adapt new technology to succeed
- By Tim Heston
- Apr 2, 2020
- Article
The 300-plus attendees of the FMA Annual Meeting, held before the COVID-19 crisis took hold in the U.S., prepare for a business environment full of rapid change in the metal fabrication industry.
- From The Additive Report
Smartphones: smarter than I thought
- By Kip Hanson
- Apr 1, 2020
- Blog Post
Writer Kip Hanson offers a mea culpa for reporting that cell phones can’t scan objects.
- From The Fabricator
Metcam names sales and marketing director
- Apr 1, 2020
- News Release
Alpharetta, Ga.-based Metcam, a fabricator of sheet metal components and assemblies for OEMs, has hired John Mazurek as director of sales and marketing. Mazurek previously launched two metal fabrication companies in Illinois and Texas. He headed Mazurek Marketing Services for more than 12 years and...
COVID-19 response and oil price war throw industry into disarray
- By Paul Vivian and Rick Preckel
- Mar 31, 2020
- Article
When taking a sip of a cold drink during a big game, most fans probably don’t give any thought to all the steps involved with getting the product from tank to can. Part of that magic is in the hands of those who develop the product’s recipe, but the individuals who develop the pathway to...
Joining an industry association can help you tackle the most difficult challenges
- By Lisa Wertzbaugher
- Mar 31, 2020
- Article
Thinking about joining an industry association? Columnist Lisa Wertzbaugher details some of the tangible and intangible benefits of membership.
Check fixtures do far more than verify a tubular component’s dimensions
- By Calvin TenBrink
- Mar 31, 2020
- Article
Disagreements between suppliers and OEMs can arise when they use different quality control tools and processes, even though the parts meet the dimensional criteria. In tube and pipe fabrication, using two identical check fixtures can help to alleviate such misunderstandings.
- From The Fabricator
FMA economist: Turning the coronavirus corner in four to five weeks
Economist Chris Kuehl says the economy could be closer to back in business in four to five weeks if most U.S. citizens adhere to some committed level of social distancing to steer clear of the coronavirus.
- From The Fabricator
FMA stands up for metal fabricators
- Mar 30, 2020
- News Release
Ed Youdell, president/CEO of Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. (FMA), Elgin, Ill., recently wrote to President Donald Trump regarding the essential nature of the metal fabrication industry and its importance to helping put an end to the COVID-19 virus. Youdell is now asking metal...
- From The Fabricator
Harbor Freight Tools accepting applications for Teaching Excellence prize
- Mar 30, 2020
- News Release
Applications now are open for the 2020 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, which will award cash prizes totaling $1 million to 18 of America’s best public high school skilled trades teachers or teacher teams and their programs. Applications will be accepted through May...
- From The Fabricator
Custom metal fabricators in essential supply chains step up
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 30, 2020
- Blog Post
Custom metal fabricators with diverse customer bases and strong balance sheets keep busy in the face of COVID-19 uncertainty.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing’s problem: Even in this COVID-19 crisis, people don’t see it as essential
Metal fabricating helps maintain a lifestyle that many citizens take for granted, as one Pennsylvania manufacturer of medical equipment batteries found out. Job shops provide the infrastructure of life, and the COVID-19 crisis is proving that out more correct than ever.
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