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Blog Posts - Page 42
- From The Additive Report
Getting approval for 3D printing capital expenses
- By Diana Robbins
- Sep 13, 2019
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
PostProcess Technologies VP Diana Robbins offers a practical approach for additive manufacturing engineers seeking approval for automated postprocessing and other capital expense requests.
- From The Fabricator
Still Building America: Detroit ‘social streetwear’ clothing manufacturer York Project, Part II
- By Darla Welton and Josh Welton
- Sep 12, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Josh York’s social streetwear clothing company York Project emphasizes the use of industrial sewing while focusing on job creation, a unique hands-on creative process, and a vision for the company’s future and Detroit’s future.
- From The Welder
From tough welder to nurturing woman: It’s OK to be both
- By Amanda Carlson
- Sep 10, 2019
- Aluminum Welding
- Blog Post
Whether you want to accept it or not, many women welders go through life balancing traditional expectations for what it means to be female and what it means to be a metal fabricator. There is a group of women at the Elgin Community College welding program empowering and validating one another that it's OK to be a tough welder and a nurturing female.
- From The Fabricator
Still Building America: Detroit “social streetwear” clothing manufacturer York Project, Part I
- By Darla Welton and Josh Welton
- Sep 5, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
When Josh York launched his “social streetwear” clothing company, York Project, seven years ago in Detroit, he centered his business around quality American- and handmade clothing and giving back to the homeless community.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing industry contracts for first time in three years as PMI drops below 50 percent
- By Gareth Sleger
- Sep 4, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
ISM’s August PMI registered below 50 percent for the first time in exactly three years, signifying that the manufacturing industry is contracting.
- From The Additive Report
Are all the new materials being developed for additive manufacturing necessary?
- By Kip Hanson
- Sep 3, 2019
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
As shops that 3D-print parts experiment with all the new materials being developed—especially metals—they will likely face new postprocess machining challenges.
- From The Fabricator
Coal-burning 1938 Citroën prime example of fabrication innovation
- By Josh Welton
- Sep 1, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
World War II-era coal-burning automobile from France on display at Detroit-area car show is a long-lost display of fabrication and engineering ingenuity.
- From The Fabricator
Vice President Pence visits Sargent Metal Fabricators in South Carolina to tout USMCA
- By Gareth Sleger
- Aug 29, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stopped by Sargent Metal Fabricators during a visit to South Carolina to rally support for the Trump administration’s USMCA trade deal.
A nation of adventurers, entrepreneurs, and do-it-yourselfers
- By Eric Lundin
- Aug 22, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Looking at some of the aspects of U.S. culture that make it conducive to opening and running small businesses, including manufacturing and metal fabrication, which collectively form the foundation of the American economy.
- From The Fabricator
Hiring younger manufacturers who work to live
- By Dan Davis
- Aug 21, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The younger generations of Millennials and Gen Zers are more about working to live instead of living to work. Can manufacturing and metal fabrication companies accommodate this reality?
- From The Additive Report
Reducing risk: the metallurgical considerations of 3D printing
- By Kip Hanson
- Aug 19, 2019
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
As the additive manufacturing industry transforms itself from a prototype-only industry to series production, practitioners are concerning themselves more with metallurgical issues.
- From The Fabricator
Steel prices continue to climb
- By John Packard and Tim Triplett
- Aug 15, 2019
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Steel prices continue to creep higher, but a majority of steel buyers surveyed by Steel Market Update believe the prices will drop in the fourth quarter.
- From The Welder
Fixing and ill-fitting aluminum baffle on a Honda S2000 oil pan
- By Josh Welton
- Aug 14, 2019
- Aluminum Welding
- Blog Post
The aluminum baffle on a Honda S2000 oil pan was not "made to fit" as advertised. Learn how a simple aluminum weld made it a quick fix.
- From The Fabricator
Still Building America: Aspiring welder Haley DeMitchell
- By Darla Welton and Josh Welton
- Aug 10, 2019
- Aluminum Welding
- Blog Post
Ferris State University student Haley DeMitchell knew she wanted a career in welding before she even graduated from high school with the encouragement of her family and an influential welding paraprofessional.
- From The Fabricator
Department of Labor plans to expand apprenticeship options
- By Stephen Barlas
- Aug 9, 2019
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
In an effort to fill open positions in the manufacturing industry, the U.S. Department of Labor hopes to entice industry associations to take the lead in creating more apprenticeship programs.
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