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The Tube and Pipe Journal - Blog Posts - Page 2
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
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.
Tube shipments climb as manufacturing, job growth slow
- By Paul Vivian and Rick Preckel
- Feb 13, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Most major manufacturing indexes are down, but tube and pipe shipments in the U.S. market have jumped substantially of late.
Learning from the masters of business
- By Lisa Wertzbaugher
- Feb 8, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
Warren Buffett, Katharine Graham, and Walt Disney are all remarkable because of their business success and the way they lived their lives.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
Make plans to attend The Fabricator’s Manufacturers & Suppliers Event
- By Dan Davis
- Jan 15, 2024
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
The Fabricator’s Manufacturers & Suppliers Event makes it possible to learn about fabricating technologies without having to attend FABTECH.
- From The Fabricator
Biden extends EU metals tariff deal
- By Stephen Barlas
- Jan 5, 2024
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
In an end-of-year announcement, President Joe Biden extended the current tariff rate quota agreement on steel and aluminum with the European Union.
- From The Fabricator
Advanced technology to bridge the gap in skills development
- By Dan Davis
- Jan 2, 2024
- Automation and Robotics
- Blog Post
To keep up with the resurgence in manufacturing, companies are going to have to rely on advanced technology.
- From The Fabricator
2024 steel prices: Will volatility continue?
- By Michael Cowden
- Dec 13, 2023
- Metals/Materials
- Blog Post
Hot-rolled coil steel prices have been on a roller-coaster ride in 2023. That is likely to continue in 2024, but the swings won’t be as dramatic.
- From The Fabricator
Laser tube cutting technology accessible to all
- By Caleb Chamberlain
- Dec 11, 2023
- Laser Cutting
- Blog Post
OSH Cut offers automated quoting for flat sheet cutting and bending. The fabricator now is diving into near-instant quoting for laser tube cutting.
- From The Fabricator
Welding success requires a plan
- By Dan Davis
- Dec 7, 2023
- Arc Welding
- Blog Post
Developing a welding procedure specification eliminates the mystery of how to approach a job and puts the welder on the quick path to success.
Preventing obsolescence in the tube and pipe industry
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Dec 4, 2023
- Shop Management
- Blog Post
As haunting as the demise of newspapers is, their fate doesn’t have to be shared by anyone, even a tube and pipe industry struggling to find and retain workers.
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