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The Fabricator - Blog Posts - Page 3
Manufacturing's need for quick response quoting
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 4, 2024
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
The only way metal fabrication and machine shops can sustain growth is to bring in new jobs. The best way to grow is to respond quickly and efficiently to RFQs.
Tips for creating a kinematic model
- By Gerald Davis
- Feb 29, 2024
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
CAD guru Gerald Davis discusses how downloads made into fully kinematic posers are used for developing a swinging door mechanism.
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes on the shop floor
- By Nick Martin
- Feb 25, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Whether you’re an engineer, a marketing specialist, or the boss, stepping into a co-worker’s job can lead to eye-opening discoveries in any metalworking facility.
Metal fabrication’s albatross: Poor material quality
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 24, 2024
- Laser Cutting
- Blog Post
Modern automation technology in metal fabrication can accomplish some incredible feats, even in high-product-mix operations. Still, material quality remains the wild card.
Modern metal fab shops: Have a technology plan
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Feb 23, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Metal fabrication businesses with the best partnerships, plans, and personnel savvy will reap the greatest benefits from technology advances.
Bending large radii on the press brake
- By Steve Benson
- Feb 20, 2024
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
Press brake expert Steve Benson answers questions about bending large radii and the effects changing the material has on the bend angle, radius, and flat pattern development.
Great laser tube cutting machine, rough delivery
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Feb 17, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The Silicon Valley mantra of “move fast and break things” might not apply everywhere in custom metal fabrication, especially when it comes to new equipment. Columnist Caleb Chamberlain just found this out the hard way with a tube laser.
The value of a workforce prepared for smart manufacturing
- By Bill Frahm
- Feb 14, 2024
- Automation and Robotics
- Blog Post
Trained and prepared employees have the knowledge and experience to define where smart manufacturing can add value.
Sheet metal prices pull back from Q4 peak
- By Michael Cowden
- Feb 14, 2024
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Savvy sheet metal buyers apparently are waiting to see how much lower steel prices might go before pulling the trigger on major purchases.
Metal fabricators, we’re all in this together
- By Dan Davis
- Feb 13, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Manufacturing can only thrive when metal fabricating shops are willing to support their peers when the occasion arises.
Financial survey dives deep into metal fabrication industry
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 13, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
A recent financial survey from the FMA goes deep into the books behind metal fabrication, offering an in-depth look into an industry dominated by private companies.
Congress moves to reinstate manufacturing tax provisions
- By Stephen Barlas
- Feb 7, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Congress is working to renew tax provisions that have proven to be important cost-saving tools for metalworking companies.
Still Building America: Welding brings Chattanooga community together
- By Darla Welton
- Feb 3, 2024
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
In this episode of Still Building America, Darla Welton speaks with Chanda Chambers of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Chambers Welding & Fabrication about starting a metal fabrication business with her husband and offering welding classes to bring more diversity to the trade.
Tips for efficient sketching in 3D modeling
- By Gerald Davis
- Jan 31, 2024
- Manufacturing Software
- Blog Post
CAD guru Gerald Davis discusses how efficient sketching pays dividends when it comes to efficient DC modeling.
Predicting the radius without test bending on the press brake
- By Steve Benson
- Jan 25, 2024
- Bending and Forming
- Blog Post
The 20% rule can estimate the air-formed radius that a press brake operator is likely to achieve, yet it remains imperfect. Data based on empirical evidence—test bends—can help most bending departments in a metal fabrication shop.
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