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- From The Welder
How to train welders in-house
- By Garry Pace and Peter Kinney
- Jan 19, 2024
- Arc Welding
- Article
Two experienced CWIs/welding engineers share strategies and past experiences to help shops train their welders internally.
- From The Fabricator
Chicago shop brings artists’ and architects’ ideas to life
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Jan 19, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
In the last four decades, Vector Custom Fabricating has made a name for itself in sculpture and architectural/structural metal projects in the Chicago area and beyond.
Making the most of the robotic revolution in fabrication
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Jan 18, 2024
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Rather than fear the worst from the cobot revolution, tube and pipe fabrication shops should consider the benefits to current employees and their final products.
- From The Welder
Massachusetts welding shop tells how to succeed in aerospace
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Jan 17, 2024
- Arc Welding
- Article
New England-based Advance Welding has evolved and prospered since its inception more than four decades ago by securing aerospace industry certifications, buying a shop, and adding electron beam welding.
- From The Fabricator
How high-powered fiber lasers bevel plate
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 12, 2024
- Laser Cutting
- Article
Cutlite Penta now offers fiber lasers up to 50 kW, and some machines have heads capable of cutting bevels. It’s all made possible by highly controlled assist-gas mixing, the cutting head design, and novel use of software.
- From The Fabricator
Assist gas mixing drives fiber laser technology forward
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 10, 2024
- Laser Cutting
- Article
What used to be cut with solely oxygen or nitrogen now uses a mix of both. Laser assist gas mixing has been a key enabling technology, and today’s ultrahigh-powered fiber lasers couldn’t cut the way they do without it.
- From The Fabricator
Cobot helps build capacity at Skyvington Manufacturing
- By Robert Colman
- Jan 9, 2024
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
A small investment in welding automation has led to big changes for this turnkey supplier of store fixtures and retail displays.
- From The Fabricator
How to entice Gen Z into manufacturing managerial roles
- By Dan Davis
- Jan 7, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Two experts share what manufacturing employers can do to entice Gen Z into considering managerial positions without having to forego what's important to them.
- From The Fabricator
Infrastructure fabrication focus: Pole forming at scale
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 5, 2024
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Today, massive press brakes—singles, tandems, and tridems—form poles at an unprecedented rate. Advanced process control and automated material handling make it happen for the metal fabrication niche.
- From The Fabricator
Metal fabricators merge to form Caldera Manufacturing Group
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 4, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Representing the merger of four organizations, Caldera Manufacturing Group formed in late 2023. The move reflects a consolidation trend. When fabricators grow, they widen the customer base and deepen customer relationships.
- From The Fabricator
Tips for tackling virtual sharp points and bend lines for oblique angles
- By Gerald Davis
- Dec 29, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
To show how different approaches can be used to detail sheet metal characteristics in a CAD drawing, Gerald Davis focuses on two modeling examples.
- From The Fabricator
File export fundamentals in structural steel fabrication
- Dec 27, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
When files have the right information and account for the machines a structural fabricator has, jobs start to flow easily from detailing through the fab shop floor and to the field.
- From The Fabricator
Roll forming strategies for high-strength material
- Dec 21, 2023
- Roll Forming
- Article
Roll formers are being asked to process high-strength material to very tight tolerances. Old-school rolling mills are starting to become obsolete, but the latest systems are ready for the challenge.
- From The Fabricator
Fabrication software: from floppy disks to the cloud
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Dec 21, 2023
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Fabricators used to buy software in a box. Today, they turn to the cloud. And in the near future, AI tools will change how we interact with computers in ways impossible to foresee.
- From The Fabricator
Welder finds success with door fabrication business
- By Dan Davis
- Dec 20, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Article
A career of learning about welding on the job has led Todd Noe to a new career fabricating heavy-duty residential doors and starting Maiden Steel in the San Diego area.
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