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Articles - Page 196
- From The Fabricator
A ticket of entry to laser cutting
- By Tim Heston
- Jul 5, 2016
- Laser Cutting
- Article
Alkras has introduced a laser small enough to fit on the gantry of a cutting table. It’s being marketed as a ticket of entry for those fab shops—especially small ones—that have not yet entered the laser cutting arena.
- From The Fabricator
Reshaping metal grinding
- By Dan Davis
- Jul 5, 2016
- Materials Handling
- Article
Metal fabricators don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the costs associated with grinding. It’s necessary in many shops, so company management just throws labor at it. They don’t realize, however, that new ceramic alumina developments have the potential to save them money when it comes to grinding operations. The Norton Quantum 3 abrasive wheel is one such example.
- From The Fabricator
Tooling: The heart of choosing a press brake
- By Steve Benson
- Jul 5, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
When considering a new press brake purchase, focus on the tooling and forming method first. How will your staff react to changes? How steep will the learning curve be? Also, think about where your company is headed and the markets it serves.
- From The Fabricator
Great gates!
- By Eric Lundin
- Jul 5, 2016
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
After learning to weld on the family farm and honing his skill during his college years, Josh Foster decided to augment his steady, part-time job with a fabrication business. Big Creek Metal Works makes all sort of items, from large ranch gates to small art items, specializing in custom work.
- From The Fabricator
Managing part flow in custom metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Jul 1, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Think of how fast modern laser cutting is; now think of a typical press brake. There’s no contest. With this in mind, how can a fab shop best manage part flow? Elements of quick-response manufacturing (QRM) can help.
- From The Fabricator
5 ways that CAD/CAM nesting software impacts the bottom line
- By Alyson Schoenung
- Jul 1, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Modern CAD/CAM nesting software can assist metal fabricators looking to reduce costs related to raw material spending, production labor, parts programming, and work order creation.
- From The Fabricator
Adhesives and bonding tapes: Enhancing design space
- By Shari Loushin
- Jun 29, 2016
- Assembly and Joining
- Article
Adhesives and bonding tapes can perform and even outperform many of the same tasks as welding and fastening. The scope of their applications might surprise you.
- From The Fabricator
Big press brake bending, high throughput
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 29, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
In large-workpiece bending, material handling and tooling changeover can take serious time. Shorten that time, and bending throughput levels, even for the largest jobs, can jump significantly.
- From The Fabricator
Cutting to the chase on gas delivery for CO2 lasers
- By John Karpus
- Jun 29, 2016
- Laser Cutting
- Article
A working knowledge of the ways in which purity, pressure, and flow affect how lasers use gases is key to setting up a gas delivery system that both works correctly and is cost-effective.
- From The Fabricator
All you need to know about the heat-affected zone
- By Andrea Bustreo
- Jun 28, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Any thermal cutting or welding process changes the material makeup of the workpiece. This heat-affected zone can make downstream processing of the metal a bit more unpredictable.
- From The Fabricator
3 questions to ask for better laser cutting
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 28, 2016
- Laser Cutting
- Article
Brent Donner, president of DLC Manufacturing and Fabrication, has spent almost a decade as a laser cutting consultant. Over that time he has noticed several fundamentals that many operators miss: properly cleaning and polishing the optics, centering the nozzle, and calibrating the beam focus.
- From The Welder
So, you want to become an AWS CWI
- By Professor R. Carlisle "Carl" Smith
- Jun 28, 2016
- Arc Welding
- Article
Becoming an AWS certified welding inspector is a challenging task that takes serious preparation and study. Shortcuts don’t cut it.
- From The Fabricator
The 2016 FAB 40: Planning their next move
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 22, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
It’s been quite a run. Over the past four years many FAB 40 companies have reported big revenue gains. In 2015, not so much, at least on average. Sales at some big companies either held steady or declined somewhat, mainly thanks to weak markets that by now every fabricator knows about: oil and...
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Modeling with surfaces, patterns, and configurations
- By Gerald Davis
- Jun 20, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis reviews the use of equations, configurations, design tables, and specific modeling tools for creating 3-D models of paper and cake.
- From The Fabricator
Metal fabrication and the buying experience
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 17, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
SixAxis, a fabricator of safety platforms, portable stairs, and other industrial products, developed its own software with quoting, customer relationship management, and product configuration features. According to sources, software changed the customer buying experience, which in turn helped the company quintuple in size over six years.
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