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Articles - Page 203
The industry shifts gears
- By Eric Lundin
- Mar 29, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
The recent drop in the crude oil price has taken much of the attention off of the energy industry, and automotive has pulled ahead. The article contains quite a bit of information on the latest research into alloys for the automotive industry, specifically from three Tube® Düsseldorf exhibitors.
- From The Welder
Consumables Corner: Understanding welding heat input and its effects on base materials
- By Nino Mascalco, Rob Koltz, and Steve Sigler
- Mar 28, 2016
- Consumables
- Article
What guidelines should a job shop follow in regards to heat input if there is no welding procedure to fall back on? The Consumables Corner team has the answer.
- From The Welder
What is a repair WPS?
- By Paul Cameron
- Mar 28, 2016
- Arc Welding
- Article
When a code requires a repair weld procedure specification (WPS), what exactly does that mean? PWC explains.
- From The Welder
Aluminum Workshop: What not to do when excessive contact tip burnback occurs
- By Frank Armao
- Mar 28, 2016
- Aluminum Welding
- Article
Editor’s Note: Part I appeared in the January/February 2016 issue of Practical Welding Today®.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Using animation tools in design review
- By Gerald Davis
- Mar 28, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis shares some best practices when it comes to creating animations and movies for design review purposes.
- From The Fabricator
What’s sizzling in hot stamping?
- By Kate Bachman
- Mar 28, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
This multisource article touches hot stamping's growth and new technologies and approaches to its further development, including pressure controlled hardening, hot forming of aluminum and magnesium, the option of using a servo-mechanical press that has been modified for hot forming as well as a hydraulic press, and secondary processing performed in-die to avoid having to use a laser cutting machine for trimming.
- From The Fabricator
Press brake bending and the notch: A deeper dive
- By Steve Benson
- Mar 28, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Bending guru Steve Benson continues his discussion of notching, which has a symbiotic relationship with bending. Nowadays CAD systems take care of the layout calculations. Nonetheless, manual notch layout is still used for one-off products or in prototype shops.
- From The Fabricator
New ideas spur success at Minnesota metal fabricator
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 21, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Bermo, a stamper and fabricator in Minnesota, takes idea generation seriously. Some of the company’s latest initiatives, including rapid prototyping and automated quoting, have come from employees starting a sentence with, “Wouldn’t it be great if …”
Recruiting, retaining welders with dollars and sense
- By Eric Lundin
- Mar 21, 2016
- Arc Welding
- Article
While the Great Recession was a calamity for many businesses, some also had a bit of trouble recovering from the downturn. Trailer builder Featherlite had trouble retaining workers, but realized that it could compete against higher wages offered elsewhere by improving the way it went about recruiting, hiring, and training newly hired workers.
- From The Fabricator
Die coatings morph to help form AHS aluminum
- By Bernard Janoss
- Mar 21, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
A new die coating has been developed to help alleviate complications of forming high-strength aluminum, such as sticking and abrasion.
- From The Fabricator
So you want to buy a metal fabricator
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 21, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
Buying a company isn’t just about getting a certain multiple. A buyer needs to define a buying strategy, analyze a seller’s business model, and uncover what the seller’s company truly is worth.
- From The Fabricator
Robot welding tips, troubleshooting, and best practices
- By Ryan Lizotte
- Mar 21, 2016
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
The experts at FMA provide robot welding tips, best practices, and troubleshooting tips that can help you maximize your ROI. Find our robotic welding tips here.
- From The Fabricator
Tools for troubleshooting
- By Kate Bachman
- Mar 17, 2016
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Trial and error is a difficult, time-consuming, and costly way to try out new parts or find the sources of problems in a stamping operation. Vision systems, “action” cameras, die design simulation, and spectroscopic metallurgy analyzers for material analysis can help stamping manufacturers make adjustments on the front end to save time and money by several magnitudes on the back end.
Plasma provides pleasant parting process for pipeline project
- By Eric Lundin
- Mar 17, 2016
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Oxyfuel has been the process of choice for cutting and gouging for field repairs for many years, but the crew on the Seaway 2 project found that a prototype model from Hypertherm provided a faster, quieter, more precise process.
- From The Welder
Can industrial fans and welding mix?
- By Scott Moody
- Mar 17, 2016
- Shop Management
- Article
How do large industrial fans affect shielding gas coverage in welding environments? The truth is it is tricky but not impossible. With the right testing and support, overhead HVLS fans can work in most welding facilities, while variable-speed column fans can take care of the rest.
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