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Articles - Page 231
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
R&D Update: Examining lubricant performance in forming of AHSS
- By Ali Fallahiarezoodar, Taylan Altan, Ph.D., and Suraj Appachu
- Feb 5, 2015
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Lubrication plays an important role in stamping, as it reduces friction at the tool-workpiece interface. Reducing that friction also reduces die and tool wear in large-volume production, which in turn increases tool life. It also allows smoother flow of the sheet material into the die cavity and...
- From The Fabricator
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.
Using laser velocimeters to improve tube and pipe production
- By Peter Nawfel
- Feb 4, 2015
- Tube and Pipe Production
- Article
Accurate and reliable length and speed measurements are critical parameters that help tube and pipe producers increase yield, improve quality, and reduce production costs. The relentless improvement in electronic technology, accompanied by falling prices, have made laser-based measurement systems more capable and affordable than ever before.
- From The Fabricator
An exit strategy for the metal fabrication job shop owner
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 3, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
In their book Cashing Out of Your Business, authors Kathleen Richardson-Mauro and Jane M. Johnson tackle not just the nuts and bolts of selling an enterprise—revenue concentration, profitability, health of the market—but also the personal elements. When an owner sells a business, his or her life changes in a dramatic way.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- 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.
- From The Fabricator
7 Press automation trends lean toward continued integration, acceleration
- By Kate Bachman
- Jan 29, 2015
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
Automation trends culled from FABTECH and other products introduced throughout 2014 indicate more integration, acceleration are to come in 2015.
- From The Fabricator
Shop technology and 3-D CAD: Metal marking
- By Gerald Davis
- Jan 28, 2015
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis walks the CAD operator through the process of creating a drill index.
- From The Fabricator
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.
- From The Fabricator
Safety catchers protect hydraulic, pneumatic press
- By Shane Hatfield
- Jan 28, 2015
- Safety
- Article
Safety catchers prevent a load from crashing down at any position of ascent if a hydraulic or pneumatic pressure system fails, or if a rope, chain, belt, or toothed drive breaks.
- From The Fabricator
Done-in-one meets structural fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 23, 2015
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
New system introduces full automation to structural fabrication, including cutting, beam and plate handling, and welding.
- From The Fabricator
Proactive maintenance, predictable performance in metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Jan 23, 2015
- Testing and Measuring
- Article
At Midland Metal Products, all machines have asset tags on them. So do calipers and tape measures—and even brooms—and it’s all tracked in a computerized maintenance management system. Tracking asset downtime has made life on the shop floor much more predictable.
Developing a national, international bending standard for tube and pipe
- By Eric Lundin
- Jan 23, 2015
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
An update from an article that ran in the September 2013 TPJ, this column describes a research project intended to help eliminate trial-and-error setups, conserve programmers’ time, and help get products to market faster by helping everyone involved in a bending project home in on the optimal bending process before getting started.
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