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More from Vicki Bell
- From The Fabricator
Rogue satellite
- By Vicki Bell
- Feb 20, 2008
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
When watching your satellite TV or talking on your cell phone, do you ever think about all the satellites that circle the earth? Do you ever wonder how many there are? Which country has the most? What would happen if they began to fall back to earth? To tell the truth, I never gave it much thought,...
- From The Fabricator
Leaving Arizona
- By Vicki Bell
- Feb 14, 2008
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Illegal immigration is among the top issues in the 2008 presidential election. The candidates have stated their plans for stemming the tide of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. and dealing with the large numbers currently residing in the country. Arizona has passed a law to address the...
- From The Fabricator
Get with the program
- By Vicki Bell
- Feb 7, 2008
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
Have you ever noticed how things run in cycles? Feast or famine? Drought or flood? No phone calls, or one call after another? I telecommute, and days go by that my work phone doesn't ring at all. On those days, all communication transpires electronically. This is not one of those days. Among...
- From The Fabricator
Frills or no frills?
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 30, 2008
- Safety
- Blog Post
A mere three weeks ago, the introduction of the Nano, the $2,500 car produced by Tata Motors, made the headlines worldwide. It also was the topic of the Jan. 15 "Fabricating Update" e-newsletter lead-in, which asked subscribers what they thought of the new car and whether it would have any impact...
- From The Fabricator
Flashdance meets real life
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 23, 2008
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
I'm interviewing Brennan Palmiter, a young race car driver with a passion for welding that's almost as strong as his passion for racing. His profile will be featured on thefabricator.com next month. Palmiter's story, along with two stories I ran across today, proved to me that there...
- From The Fabricator
Hodgepodge
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 17, 2008
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Today's post is a mishmash of interesting items that have crossed my desk in the last few days. The words hodgepodge and mishmash are alterations of Middle English words, hochepot and misse-masche, respectively. The English language has evolved over the years, and so has the English economy....
- From The Fabricator
Filling a need
- By Vicki Bell
- Jan 9, 2008
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Can you remember a time without wheelchairs? Probably not. According to wheelchairnet.org, the earliest found image of a wheelchair is incised in stone on a 6th century Chinese sarcophagus. In the 16th century, King Philip II of Spain used an elaborate rolling chair with movable arm and leg rests....
- From The Fabricator
Educators, listen up
- By Vicki Bell
- Dec 13, 2007
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Much has been said and written about the skilled labor shortage, yet it remains an issue that plagues manufacturers across the U.S. and the rest of the world. Skill comes from training and experience. It begins when an individual is exposed to a craft, develops an interest, and decides to pursue...
- From The Fabricator
Say it isn't so
- By Vicki Bell
- Dec 5, 2007
- Additive Manufacturing
- Blog Post
Confession time. I'm a survey junkie. When I scan news sites, I always check the survey section to see the latest topics. In fact, my very first blog post on thefabricator.com, What to do about health care costs, mentioned surveys about dashboard dining and windbreakers imported from...
- From The Fabricator
After the war
- By Vicki Bell
- Nov 28, 2007
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
As the Iraqi War continues, business is booming for defense contractors. According to Michael Brush"s article on MSN Money, War means a windfall for CEOs, the military buildup has caused defense-contractor revenue to double, triple, and even more during the past five years, and executives at these...
- From The Fabricator
Notes on FABTECH
- By Vicki Bell
- Nov 15, 2007
- Assembly and Joining
- Blog Post
WARNING: I'm on FABTECH overload. I'm back in my office looking at stacks of press kits about products featured at the 2007 FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show that wrapped up Wednesday. Held in Chicago, this year's show was the largest I've seen in my nine years with the...
- From The Fabricator
Cutting the pipeline
- By Vicki Bell
- Nov 7, 2007
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
This week two metal tube and pipe companies announced plant closings. Wolverine Tube Inc. announced Nov. 6 that it will discontinue its U.S. plumbing tube business and will close manufacturing facilities located in Decatur, Ala., and Booneville, Miss. The same day, U.S. Pipe & Foundry announced...
- From The Fabricator
Heavy metal
- By Vicki Bell
- Oct 31, 2007
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
It's Halloween, and to celebrate I thought I'd Google "Halloween metal," just to see what results the phrase would conjure up. I entered the words in quotation marks to try and limit the number of results. Among the 85,900 links returned were sites that featured metal Halloween...
- From The Fabricator
Revving up in China
- By Vicki Bell
- Oct 24, 2007
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
While the U.S. auto industry is busy dealing with the dollar-yen exchange rate, contract negotiations with the UAW, rising fuel prices, falling sales, and a "product so mediocre they need to bribe customers with incentives to buy American," (quote from a Forbes article Detroit to Japan: Strengthen...
- From The Fabricator
Not your average job shop
- By Vicki Bell
- Oct 23, 2007
- Shop Management
- Article
Sargent Metal Fabricators, Anderson, S.C., is not your average job shop. In an economic climate in which many U.S. fabricators have suffered, the company has stayed focused on its goals, invested in new equipment, grown by leaps and bounds, and positioned itself for future growth. How? By concentrating on key factors.
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Seth Feldman of Iowa-based Wertzbaugher Services joins The Fabricator Podcast to offer his take as a Gen Zer...
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