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Shop Management - Page 70
- From The Fabricator
Training grant awarded to Erection & Welding Contractors
- Sep 2, 2021
- News Release
The Steel Erectors Association of America (SEAA) has awarded the 2021 SEAA Craft Training Grant to Erection & Welding Contractors (EWC), Berlin, Conn.
- From The Fabricator
Online heat-treatment seminar to be held Sept. 30
- Sep 2, 2021
- News Release
Seco-Warwick will host E-Seminar 4.1, an online meeting for experts in the metal heat-treatment industry, Sept. 30, 2021.
- From The Fabricator
How serious are metal fabricators about recruiting workers?
Metal fabricators complain quite a bit about the lack of skilled workers, and rightly so. But what necessary steps are they taking to resolve the situation?
- From The Fabricator
Beckhoff’s TwinCAT Analytics software includes more condition monitoring functions
- Sep 2, 2021
- Product Release
TwinCAT Analytics software from Beckhoff offers a complete workflow from acquisition of data to its storage and analysis to dashboards for continuous machine monitoring.
- From The Fabricator
Automated Layout Technology’s Lightning Rail cuts fabrication time
- Sep 1, 2021
- Product Release
The patented Lightning Rail automated layout system from Automated Layout Technology eliminates the skilled manual layout hours involved in fabricating handrails, stair stringers, and ladders.
- From The Fabricator
Brek to expand Kansas operations
- Aug 30, 2021
- News Release
Brek Mfg. Co., a Gardena, Calif.-based producer of structural aerospace components plans, has announced plans for a $4.5 million investment to establish new operations in Wichita, Kan.
- From The Fabricator
How behavior can sustain (or stop) continuous improvement in lean manufacturing
- By Jeff Sipes
- Aug 27, 2021
- Article
Many companies focus on the hard side of improvement—the 5S, the standard work, the workcells—but ignore the soft side, including the behaviors that drive people to improve.
- From The Fabricator
Aagard to open Fabrication Center in Minnesota
- Aug 25, 2021
- News Release
Aagard, an engineering company in Alexandria, Minn., that builds custom packaging automation systems, has announced plans to open a Fabrication Center.
Blockchain technology secures traceability records for tube, pipe producers
- By Eric Lundin
- Aug 24, 2021
- Article
Many people think that blockchain is synonymous with cryptocurrency, but that’s not accurate. Blockchain is a secure database that works as an accounting ledger, preventing cryptocurrency fraud. It also can be used for traceability throughout a manufacturing process, providing a complete and accurate manufacturing record of metal products such as the pipe that goes into making pipelines.
- From The Fabricator
How manufacturing facility managers can perfect the performance appraisal
- By Mark Ernst
- Aug 24, 2021
- Article
Many managers at metal fabrication and other manufacturing shops share the same mindset about performance reviews: “I just don’t have the time.” In an era of perennial skilled labor shortages, thinking this way is a costly mistake.
- From The Additive Report
3D-printed parts made from refractory metals can handle the heat
- By Kip Hanson
- Aug 23, 2021
- Article
Additive manufacturing and five elemental metals—molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, and rhenium—are poised to change air and space travel.
- From The Fabricator
Industry 4.0 in the world of metalworking
- By Tim Heston
- Aug 21, 2021
- Blog Post
In the world of Industry 4.0, workers in metal fabrication and metal forming shops will handle the exceptions, autonomous systems will handle everything else. Thing is, talented employees still need to minimize and manage those exceptions.
- From The Fabricator
Manufacturing optimism buoyed by innovation and adaptability, study says
- Aug 20, 2021
- News Release
About two-thirds of manufacturers surveyed in the Umpqua Bank "2021 Business Barometer" study expect overall economic conditions in the U.S. to improve over the next 12 months.
- From The Fabricator
Standard Industries to triple in size
- Aug 19, 2021
- News Release
Standard Industries has announced plans to break ground on a new 120,000-sq.-ft. building in Fargo, N.D.
- From The Fabricator
Lingering pandemic, long lead times impact metal formers’ outlook, says report
- Aug 19, 2021
- News Release
Metal forming companies expect a slight dip in business conditions during the next three months, according to the August 2021 PMA "Business Conditions Report."
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