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The Fabricator September 2022
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.
The positive impact of on-staff certified welding inspectors in manufacturing
- By Chuck Schroeder and Dan Davis
- Oct 3, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Article
Some manufacturing companies might think having a full-time certified welding inspector (CWI) is a luxury, but DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations in Pineville, La., is proving that it makes perfect business sense.
Improve your fabrication shop's plasma consumables management
- Oct 3, 2022
- Plasma Cutting
- Article
Modern technology can help an operator of a plasma cutting table make the right consumable changes at the right time.
The rise of returnable, reusable packaging to help manufacturing's reshoring efforts
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 30, 2022
- Materials Handling
- Article
Logistics, material handling, and packaging company ORBIS fabricates the returnable dunnage that’s becoming an increasingly important part of the growing domestic supply chain in manufacturing.
How serious is your manufacturing company about starting a lean journey?
- By Jeff Sipes
- Sep 30, 2022
- Shop Management
- Article
Is your metal fabrication company serious about lean manufacturing, or are you just dabbling? Considering the state of the world, lean guru Jeff Sipes writes that now would be a good time to get serious.
How to heat aluminum to avoid cracking after bending
- By Steve Benson
- Sep 29, 2022
- Bending and Forming
- Article
High-temper aluminum can crack during bending, so press brake operators might need to anneal it. Aluminum doesn’t change color when heated. If a metal fabrication shop doesn’t have a temperature gun, watch the soot.
The technical and systems thinking of metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 27, 2022
- Shop Management
- Article
Significant layoffs might not accompany the next recession, particularly if metal fabricators have the right mix of technical and systems-thinking talent.
Getting a handle on production capacity through planning and scheduling
- By Brianna Merrill
- Sep 26, 2022
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Continued supply chain disruptions and labor shortages bring constant change that manufacturers can find hard to navigate. Planning and scheduling are the keys to their making intelligent decisions about increasing capacity in metal fabrication.
Cobot safety factors in welding
- By Josh Leath
- Sep 26, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Article
For true cobot safety, the robot, workpiece, robot work area, and even the end-of-arm tooling must be addressed. Read on to learn about cobot welding and safety.
Finding the production sweet spot in metalworking with the two-roll plate roll
- By Allan Flamholz
- Sep 24, 2022
- Bending and Forming
- Article
If a metal fabrication shop needs a way to form high volumes of thin sheet, a two-roll machine might be a good place to start.
Tiny house, big dreams built with a steel structure and a dynamic roof
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Sep 24, 2022
- Arc Welding
- Article
A Washington couple thought outside of the box for the design of tiny cabin, which features a steel structure and a dynamic roof.
Everything fabricators need to know about anchor points in CAD tables
- By Gerald Davis
- Sep 23, 2022
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
CAD guru Gerald Davis takes a look at anchor points in sheet formats and settings in tables that use or ignore those anchor points.
How a pipe spool fabricator digitized traceability for welders
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 20, 2022
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
An industrial contractor and pipe spool fabricator in Tuscaloosa, Ala., McAbee, builds custom software to digitize its workflow, boost traceability, and increase transparency for fitters and welders. It’s called MATS, the McAbee Automated Tracking System, and it’s changed the way the pipe spool fabricator does business.
Tips to successfully saw and select blades for nonferrous materials
- By Jay Gordon
- Sep 19, 2022
- Sawing
- Article
Nonferrous materials like aluminum, copper, lead, tin, titanium, and zinc can prove cumbersome under the teeth of a saw blade. The right blade and sawing parameters help to alleviate that situation.
Las Vegas powder coater expands business into metal fabrication
- By Kate Bachman
- Sep 19, 2022
- Finishing
- Article
Las Vegas-based Wolf Powder Coating started as a powder coating business and has now expanded to offer fabrication to its powder coating customers.
How one Millennial entrepreneur gambled with no fabrication experience
- By Tim Heston
- Sep 16, 2022
- Shop Management
- Article
Cody Lee isn’t your typical 30-year-old entrepreneur. He’s not investing in crypto or convoluted software that promises to be the next big thing. Last year, without any industry experience, he plunged into the sheet metal arena by purchasing Ohio-based Everyday Technologies, and he hasn’t looked back.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 04/30/2024
- Running Time:
- 53:00
Seth Feldman of Iowa-based Wertzbaugher Services joins The Fabricator Podcast to offer his take as a Gen Zer...
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