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- From The Fabricator
Did steel mills stop the price drop?
- By Michael Cowden
- Sep 20, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Steel mills announced price hikes roughly a month ago, but declining demand hasn’t done much to support that effort.
- From The Fabricator
First steps in sheet metal automation
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 19, 2022
- Automation and Robotics
- Blog Post
In sheet metal manufacturing? Want to automate? Mike Schlagenhafer, manufacturing consultant for Acuity Insurance, gives some insight on how to start and build a process map. Part of the planning to integrate automation for metal fabricators involves detailing all the costs—not just equipment costs but also the integration, operating, tooling, and maintenance costs.
- From The Fabricator
Camp introduces girls to manufacturing and helps find that ‘maker gene’
- By Gareth Sleger
- Sep 16, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Middle-school-age girls at a Chicago-area manufacturing camp discover their maker gene by working with metal, designing on CAD, and operating machines, power tools. The GADgET Girls Camp at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., was part of the Nuts, Bolts, & Thingamajigs summer camp series.
- From The Fabricator
Preparing for changes in metal forming for battery electric vehicles
- By Bill Frahm
- Sep 13, 2022
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
Rapidly changing vehicle designs are anticipated as the battery electric vehicles industry grows and addresses efficiency and safety concerns. Sheet metal component suppliers have to be prepared to stay competitive.
- From The Fabricator
Is the material you ordered the material you are getting to your fab shop?
- By Dan Davis
- Sep 9, 2022
- Testing and Measuring
- Blog Post
Properly identifying materials like low-alloy steels or high-alloy steels as they are delivered to a shop is a best practice for metal fabricators.
- From The Fabricator
OSHA aims to tighten lead exposure levels throughout industrial sectors
- By Stephen Barlas
- Sep 8, 2022
- Safety
- Blog Post
OSHA takes steps to reduce lead exposure levels for workers in metal fabricating industries.
- From The Fabricator
Rebuilding domestic manufacturing with young people one meeting at a time
- By Dan Davis
- Sep 5, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
For young people to consider a career in metalworking or any other sector or manufacturing, they need to know what exactly it is. Metal fabricators can help with this.
- From The Fabricator
In the Workshop, Ep. 4: How to correctly open welding gas bottles
- By Josh Welton
- Aug 26, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Detroit welder-fabricator Josh Welton walks through the safe and correct way for welders to open gas bottles. Learn more here.
- From The Fabricator
Parallels between Motown and Motor City Stamping: From humble beginnings to greatness in Detroit
- By Kate Bachman
- Aug 24, 2022
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
Growth is rarely easy and with growth come growth pains, especially in the metal stamping industry. But, just like the Motown scene, ingenuity, hard work, and a whole lotta soul can level the field in manufacturing so that there ain't no mountain high enough.
- From The Fabricator
How automation shapes Kendall Howard’s fabrication business model
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 23, 2022
- Automation and Robotics
- Blog Post
Automation has become the cornerstone of growth at Kendall Howard, a unique product development and manufacturing company northeast of Minneapolis. In the first episode of our new series, Talk Automation, co-host and editor Tim Heston speaks with Kendall Howard founder Randy Herreid about how the custom fabricator has implemented system-wide automation for material handling and other processes to grow the business.
- From The Fabricator
The pains of routine machine maintenance in a job shop
- By Nick Martin
- Aug 22, 2022
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Barnes MetalCrafters manager Nick Martin ruminates about the pains of routine machine maintenance in a job shop, and recalls one particular Monday where one problem after another kept popping up.
- From The Fabricator
Will announced steel price hikes stick?
- By Michael Cowden
- Aug 16, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Metal fabricators and other steel buyers wonder if steel prices have hit bottom or if they can expect a dead-cat bounce.
- From The Fabricator
Growing a knowledge-based workforce in the manufacturing industry
- By Bill Frahm
- Aug 15, 2022
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
As manufacturing has shifted from a focus on task execution to engaging employees in an effort to be flexible and efficient, companies need a new type of worker.
- From The Fabricator
The manufacturing community holds conflicted views on tariffs
- By Stephen Barlas
- Aug 8, 2022
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
As metal fabricators and other manufacturers debate the effectiveness of tariffs, the U.S. International Trade Commission announces its own investigation into the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs and the Section 301 tariffs on various Chinese imports.
- From The Welder
What competition can tell us about the future welder
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Aug 4, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
High school welding programs and large competitions like SkillsUSA bring hope that the future of welding is in good hands.
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