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Articles - Page 286
- From The Welder
The gravity of one weld instructor
- By Amanda Carlson
- Jul 10, 2012
- Arc Welding
- Article
Jaime Shaker, head instructor at Calumet Welding Center, is driven and tough. His goal is to push each student to strive for excellence and reject the notion that good enough is good enough.
- From The Fabricator
Chromium molybdenum—its uses and fabrication requirements
- By Professor R. Carlisle "Carl" Smith
- Jul 9, 2012
- Metals/Materials
- Article
Chromium molybdenum alloys have characteristics that make them good choices for many products used in construction and manufacturing. This article discusses some applications for these materials and the processes and equipment necessary to complete them.
Looking for an alternative to conventional swaging?
- By Eric Lundin and Trish Harbaugh
- Jul 2, 2012
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
A fluid-carrying line usually consists of a length of tube or pipe that has a fitting that is either attached at the end of the tube by a conventional swaging method or attached to the tube by welding. A little-known process, elastomeric swaging, bulge-forms the tube or pipe ends. Its niche is in small-diameter, heavy-wall applications that carry fluid under substantial pressure.
- From The Fabricator
Plate rolling rolls on
- By Francesco Massa
- Jun 29, 2012
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Advanced controls make a highly variable process more predictable Abstract: Experience still is important when it comes to plate rolling. But the more knowledge industry has gained about the materials being rolled, the more “intelligent” plate roll systems have become.
- From The Fabricator
Clearing the air for heavy welding
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 28, 2012
- Safety
- Article
Joy Global does some seriously heavy fabrication, welding atop mining shovel components several stories tall. Weld fume control was becoming a problem, so the company installed an innovative, nonlocal fume collection system to help clear the air.
- From The Fabricator
3-D CAD: Modeling with product variation as the design intent
- By Gerald Davis
- Jun 26, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Columnist Gerald Davis provides a guide to connecting dimensions and custom properties to equations, which will make part design changes much easier to deal with down the road.
- From The Fabricator
Beating the summer heat
Summertime and the factory is even hotter. Here’s a look at one option for making conditions more tolerable and safer for your workforce.
- From The Fabricator
The vitality of purposeful work
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 15, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
The median age of the Vita Needle emloyee is 73. The company practices what one anthropologist calls eldersourcing. Considering the knowledge they've gained over the years, the elderly may become one of metal fabrication's greatest assets.
- From The Fabricator
Being big, acting small
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Minnesota fabricator rebrands itself, standardizes operations, and remains nimble, even after years of aggressive growth. Managers expect the firm to grow another 18 percent this year. That’s not small potatoes for one of the country’s largest contract metal fabricators.
- From The Fabricator
Light (based) guarding, serious safety
- By Steve Melcher
- Jun 13, 2012
- Safety
- Article
Companies should consider brake safeguarding in two phases. First, they need to consider all jobs that will be run on the machine; next, they can select a guarding system that will work with all of them.
Guitar-maker branches out with new designs
- By Eric Lundin
- Jun 13, 2012
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Editor Eric Lundin visited Gordon Branch, the guitarmaker featured on the cover of the June 2011 issue of TPJ, to see what Branch had come up with in the last few months. In addition to a new model, 33 1/3 Degree, made with round tube, Branch had developed a similar model made with tube shaped like an airfoil.
- From The Welder
Visual reality
- By Amanda Carlson
- Jun 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
To pursue visual art or science, that is the question. Polar-opposite interests? Yes. But who says the two can’t intersect somehow. After all, elements of science are alive in metal forming and fabricating, but to make it visually pleasing, an artist’s touch is necessary. Metal art, it would...
- From The Fabricator
The FAB 40: It's delivery time
- By Dan Davis and Tim Heston
- Jun 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
The FABRICATOR's FAB 40 suggests that the manufacturing revival in the U.S. is alive and well.
- From The Fabricator
Keeping up with the Joneses
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Jones Metal Products has deep roots in Mankato, Minn. It began as an industrial fabricator, which took rough concepts and saw them through design, fabrication, and installation. Today, the company in one sense is following that tradition.
- From The Fabricator
Shop grows by staying small
- By Dan Davis
- Jun 13, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
EVS Metal, Riverdale, N.J., which started as a 5,000-square-foot fabricating shop in New Jersey, is now a $30 million operation with four locations. The size of the company gives its customers confidence that they are dealing with a metal services supplier that will be around for the long term. The multiple, smaller locations give the fabricator the flexibility it needs to be responsive to customers' needs.
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