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The Fabricator December 2014
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
An exit strategy for the metal fabrication job shop owner
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 3, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
In their book Cashing Out of Your Business, authors Kathleen Richardson-Mauro and Jane M. Johnson tackle not just the nuts and bolts of selling an enterprise—revenue concentration, profitability, health of the market—but also the personal elements. When an owner sells a business, his or her life changes in a dramatic way.
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Surface modeling techniques
- By Gerald Davis
- Dec 18, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis guides the reader through some of the CAD tricks necessary to create a 3-D model of a series of drill bits.
Collaboration in the cloud
- By Craig Downing
- Dec 18, 2014
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Streamlined production, better customer relationships, and smarter decision-making are just some of the benefits that may result from cloud-based ERP software.
New squeezes on the small metal fabricator
- By Dick Kallage
- Dec 18, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
The custom fabrication market is changing as more customers—with a single-minded focus on price—stipulate new performance demands for quality, delivery, service, responsiveness, and payment terms. Should custom fabricators rethink how they are structured and how they operate to offset what could be fatal weaknesses?
Smart equipment choices in structural fabrication
- By Nick Hajewski
- Dec 18, 2014
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
There are many structural steel fabrication equipment options to choose from now, and all the choices can be a bit much. Learn what is right for your shop.
Maximum sheet metal punching, minimal distortion
- By John Ripka
- Dec 17, 2014
- Punching and Other Holemaking
- Article
Hole-intensive punching work can induce significant stress into the workpiece. To mitigate this requires a careful look at programming and tooling.
Improved plasma cutting of stainless steel
- By Jesse Tyler, Jon Peters, and Steve Liebold
- Dec 17, 2014
- Plasma Cutting
- Article
New equipment technology and better understanding of gas selection make it possible to cut stainless steel productively using the plasma cutting process.
Managing welding information more efficiently
- By Caleb Krisher and Todd McEllis
- Dec 16, 2014
- Arc Welding
- Article
A company can improve only those areas of production that can be tracked and measured. In welding, information management systems can help to provide the support to bolster production efficiencies.
Pass it on
- By Amanda Carlson
- Dec 12, 2014
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Ron Covell’s 50-year career manually building autobodies for street rods, dragsters, and motorcycles is impressive, to say the least. But he doesn’t plan on hoarding all of the expertise he’s garnered over the years. His latest passion, of the last 20 years anyway, has been sharing information in his traveling workshops to current or up-and-coming autobody enthusiasts. It’s what he hopes is his longest and most impactful legacy.
One metal fabricator, two value streams
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 12, 2014
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
For decades Nu-Way Industries operated with a conventional management structure. In recent years, managers at the Des Plaines, Ill., fabricator discovered that the two kinds of orders the company processed, engineered to order and make to stock, really called for two distinct value streams, each operating under a different business model.
Engineer, weld, fabricate, test, and perfect
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 10, 2014
- Waterjet Cutting
- Article
Rando Productions juggles various projects from various customers—TV shows, commercials, theme park attractions—and each has its own timeline. It’s all one-off, nonrepeat work. Sound familiar?
2015 metal fabrication forecast: Steady as she grows
- By Tim Heston
- Dec 8, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
Fabricators expect steady growth for 2015. At the same time, they’re gearing up to handle increasing customer demand by investing in capacity-building equipment.
Global manufacturing economy pushes forward
- By Dan Davis
- Dec 8, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
New bending, welding, and laser technology on display at the world’s largest metal fabricating and forming tradeshow helps manufacturers in their pursuit of achieving higher levels of production efficiency.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 04/16/2024
- Running Time:
- 63:29
In this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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