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Blog Posts - Page 81
- From The Fabricator
Watch where those spent solvents go
- By Stephen Barlas
- Feb 5, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The Environmental Protection Agency has finally enacted its rulemaking that affects metal manufacturers that have to recycle or dispose of spent solvents.
- From The Fabricator
People: A fabricator’s greatest competitive advantage
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 4, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Competing fabricators can invest in the same technology and software, but they can't employ the same people.
- From The Fabricator
From the Web: Finding a niche; faking a roar; falsifying welding certificates
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 29, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Web articles for fabricators—Meeting global competition by finding a niche; faking an engine’s roar; students sue over bogus welding certificates; bright future for girls in welding; and apprenticeships make a difference.
- From The Fabricator
Fabricating and mounting a “quick-quote,” heavy-duty utility truck rack
- By Nick Martin
- Jan 28, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Sometimes a “quick-quote” job turns out to be significantly more complicated than it appears. It also can become a great learning experience. Such was the case when Barnes MetalCrafters fabricated a heavy-duty utility truck rack that required compensating for the vehicle’s lightweight components to mount.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing jobs pay well, right?
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 28, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Manufacturing wages vary widely, and like anything in life, the wage story isn't simple or straightforward.
- From The Fabricator
From the Web: Low wages ‘major’ issue; inside a 3-D machine shop; ‘craftsmanship is still around’
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 22, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Highlights for fabricators from the past week’s Web articles— Low wages a major impediment to labor supply; inside Incodema 3D’s facility; job shop named best business in Blue Earth, Minn.; Mississippi shop grows, invests, hires; and craftsmanship is still around.
- From The Fabricator
Getting back to basics—Human element enhances a machine’s potential
- By Josh Welton
- Jan 22, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
In 2014 media headlines claimed that Toyota was replacing robots with humans in its factories. Not so, but the real story is important and encouraging.
- From The Fabricator
More from the Floor at FABTECH®
- By Kate Bachman
- Jan 20, 2015
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
Feeling those no-show-to-go-to blues? Missing the great times you had at FABTECH? Yearn for just a glimpse of what you saw on the floor ... oh, the clanking and whirring of machines, the tastes of happy hour brew?
- From The Fabricator
Free education and political football
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 19, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Making community college free is a bold move, but it shouldn't be used as a political tool. Unfortunately, that's the reality.
- From The Fabricator
Dropping oil prices and metal fabricating
- By Dan Davis
- Jan 16, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The drop in oil prices is not the end of the world, and it won't be the end of the world for the metal fabrication industry--at least for those not located in Texas, North Dakota, and western Canada.
- From The Fabricator
From the Web: Research in 3-D; how manufacturing can gain momentum in 2015; training success stories
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 15, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Highlights for fabricators from the past week’s Web articles— Sandvik boosts 3-D printing research; one way U.S. manufacturing can gain momentum; training success stories, and introducing young students to metalworking.
- From The Fabricator
The one collar of the knowledge worker
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 15, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Technological devices are changing the world, but in a very human way. It may not be about what technology can do. Instead, it may be about how technology changes our lives.
- From The Welder
Still Building America—Welding opens up opportunities
- By Josh Welton
- Jan 14, 2015
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Taking shop classes to enhance his automotive skills, Tom Howes found a new love in welding, one that opened up a world of opportunity.
- From The Fabricator
Congress approves manufacturing program--with an asterisk
- By Stephen Barlas
- Jan 9, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Congress fulfilled President Barack Obama's wish to set up a network of manufacturing innovation centers across the U.S., but there is a catch: The effort won't have its own budget. The endeavor will have to be funded through existing budgets in the Department of Energy and the Pentagon.
- From The Fabricator
Winning with improvisation—Repairing an air compressor part
- By Josh Welton
- Jan 7, 2015
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Everyone is familiar with the workaround. You don’t have the ideal part or solution, but you improvise and come up with a workable plan. Here’s how welder Josh Welton used the tools on hand to repair an air compressor part and avoid a trip to a big-box store.
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