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Shop Management - Page 107
- From The Fabricator
What fabricators can do with lean manufacturing when a crisis hits
- By Jeff Sipes
- May 11, 2020
- Article
It’s a time of emergency. How should metal fabricators move forward with lean manufacturing practices? It starts with identifying how the COVID-19 crisis impacts organizations.
- From The Fabricator
High-end auto shop uses reverse engineering technology to create custom parts
- May 11, 2020
- News Release
SituationKindig-It Design in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a high-end, custom automotive shop with a team of artists and fabricators who specialize in restomod. Since 1999 the shop has been restoring a variety of vehicles and modifying them to be functional and modern, with clean lines and tight-fitting...
- From The Additive Report
Additive manufacturing companies big and small help during the coronavirus pandemic
- By Kip Hanson
- May 8, 2020
- Article
In addition to printing masks and other PPE, 3D Systems is working to speed production of the swabs used to test patients for COVID-19.
- From The Fabricator
Entering the great unknown: Managing the coming chaos for manufacturing
- By Bill Frahm
- May 8, 2020
- Article
Identifying risks and planning for them will help metal fabricating and forming companies manage businesses moving forward as the economy starts recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- From The Fabricator
Marstrand Industries launches new website
- May 6, 2020
- News Release
Pittsburgh-based Marstrand Industries Inc., a custom metal fabricator serving manufacturers of medical apparatus, water treatment equipment, vending machines, building components, and material handling systems, has launched its redesigned company website. The site is designed to highlight the...
- From The Additive Report
AM: good for making lightweight metal auto parts, less so for mass production
- By Holly B. Martin
- May 6, 2020
- Article
The installation of additively manufactured metal components in cars and trucks has been limited by the industry’s need to mass-produce parts, but AM is slowly making inroads.
- From The Welder
Sciaky to deliver electron beam welding machine to Merrill
- May 6, 2020
- News Release
Sciaky Inc., Chicago, a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries Inc., will deliver an electron beam welding (EBW) machine to Saginaw, Mich.-based systems integrator Merrill. The company will use the EBW technology to fabricate critical parts and prototypes for multiple industry applications. It...
- From The Fabricator
Mecco acquires Faro Photonics
- May 5, 2020
- News Release
Laser and dot peen marking system provider Mecco, based in Pittsburgh, has acquired Faro Photonics.
Faro Photonics, Londonderry, N.H., is a manufacturer of laser scan heads, Ethernet-based vector controllers, and processing software.
- From The Fabricator
TTI-FSS appoints president, combines business operations with Precision Tank
- May 5, 2020
- News Release
Tampa Tank Inc.-Florida Structural Steel (TTI-FSS), a provider of steel storage tanks and structural steel installations in Tampa, Fla., has named Corey Yraguen as president. He most recently served as executive vice president at Vigor Industrial. Before that he served as president of Oregon Iron...
- From The Fabricator
Cynergy Cargo to open Arkansas facility
- May 5, 2020
- News Release
Cynergy Cargo, a manufacturer of enclosed cargo trailers based in Douglas, Ga., has announced plans to open a second facility in Crossett, Ark.
The expansion is expected to create 70 jobs over the next 24 months, more than doubling the company’s overall workforce.
- From The Fabricator
Meet the fabricator that knows the importance of local manufacturing support
Wisconsin metal fabricator GenMet Corp., the 2010 The FABRICATOR Industry Award winner, still remains committed to improving manufacturing’s image in the local community.
COVID-19 closes in, stifling growth
- By Paul Vivian and Rick Preckel
- May 5, 2020
- Article
Although much of the durable goods industry is still holding up, several sectors have experienced month-to-month declines of 8 to 10% on account of COVID-19. These are some of the biggest declines since the end of WWII. The only durable goods sector that showed improvement recently is communications equipment.
- From The Additive Report
Footwear manufacturer transitions to 3D-printing PPE
- By Kip Hanson
- May 4, 2020
- Article
Making 42,000 hoods for health-care workers is a 'great example of the new paradigm in manufacturing, as well as all that’s possible when people get together to address a common need.'
- From The Fabricator
Coherent HighLight diode laser offers high output power in compact package
- Apr 30, 2020
- Product Release
The Coherent HighLight DL HPS is an industrial diode laser that offers 1- to 4-kW output in a compact, self-contained package for metal cladding, heat treating, brazing, and welding. The laser uses an all-in-one configuration, with the laser head, power supply, water chiller, and heat exchanger...
- From The Fabricator
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.
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