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The Fabricator February 2015
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.
Odessa, oil, and the welding arc
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 19, 2015
- Arc Welding
- Article
Investors worry about how the drop in oil prices will affect the energy boom. The people on the front lines—including the fabricators and pipe welders—don’t seem to be terribly worried. Some even welcome a slight slowdown, because it will give everyone time to catch up.
Metal fabrication meets a seller’s market
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 18, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
Manufacturing is cool again, and fabricators wanting to sell their business are benefiting from a seller’s market. Nevertheless, high revenue concentration, a shallow talent pool, poor cash flow, reliance on sales from a single sector, and other factors still throw up red flags.
Why buy new tooling for a sheet metal hand brake?
- By Steve Benson
- Feb 17, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
When bending with a hand brake, you can use the tooling that came with the machine, but investing in a tool with a radius on the punch nose has its benefits.
Are you imprisoned by your information technology?
- By Lori Payne
- Feb 17, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
With rapid application deployment platforms, software can be tailored to an individual company's needs in a very short time frame.
Teaching: A metal fabricator’s secret sauce
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 17, 2015
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Bob Moehlman has welded pipe for more than 50 years, including 30 years at Superior Pipe Fabricators, a Los Angeles-based shop he helped launch in 1984. The shop’s success hasn’t come by using the latest and greatest pipe welding technology, but instead through teaching—showing the inexperienced employees the ropes, developing their talent, and giving them a career.
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Table-driven models
- By Gerald Davis
- Feb 16, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis shows why using a design table makes sense for those models in which reasonably limited changes take place.
OSHA shines spotlight on metal fabricating
- By Shannon DeCamp
- Feb 10, 2015
- Safety
- Article
For the sake of maintaining a safe work environment and keeping the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s investigators out of business operations, metal fabricators should be aware of the areas where they can improve their own safety performance. OSHA’s citations provide a guide to where the focus should go.
Holy fabrication work!
- By Dan Davis
- Feb 10, 2015
- Laser Cutting
- Article
Design Fugitives of Milwaukee tackled a project for a church that required as much creative muscle as it did fabricating power to bring the ideas to life.
Intelligent part identification: Keeping track of it all
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 4, 2015
- Materials Handling
- Article
Modern forming technology has made kit-based part flow much easier. But when you’re dealing with a dynamically nested sheet, with kits of different parts, pieces can get lost in the mix. Fabricators can tackle this problem with intelligent nesting and part identification.
The pursuit to be the best value-added supplier
- By Dan Davis
- Jan 29, 2015
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Waukesha Metal Products, a metal fabricator and metal former based in Sussex, Wis., wasn't going to survive in the long run being a simple stamper of simple metal parts. It needed to reinvent itself and constantly look for ways to evolve if it were to grow and improve its chances of success in the face of more demanding customers. Its in-house knowledge and talent, investment in capacity, and contributions to the overall manufacturing cause are improving its long-term viability. They also have helped the company earn the 2015 Industry Award from The FABRICATOR.
Quality springs forward with 3-D printing
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 29, 2015
- Testing and Measuring
- Article
Newcomb Spring Corp. makes its quality assurance more efficient by upgrading its inspection equipment and investing in 3-D printing. The company’s move shows how advanced inspection and additive manufacturing work together.
The hiring question in metal fabrication: Experience or potential?
- By Dick Kallage
- Jan 28, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
Should you hire people with experience or rookies with good potential? It depends on the situation, but training and developing the inexperienced has become more important than ever. There just aren’t enough people with experience to go around.
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- 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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