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The Fabricator February 2014
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
Automation relieves punching bottleneck
- By Sue Roberts
- Feb 28, 2014
- Punching and Other Holemaking
- Article
Experience plus planning get more out of automation at Overlanders Manufacturing
An 80/20 primer
- By Dick Kallage
- Feb 28, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
The 80/20 management method seeks to maximize results—such as sales or profits—by systematically deploying available resources only to the drivers that have the most impact. It sounds straightforward, but columnist Dick Kallage explains why this management approach is sometimes hard to execute.
How millennials will make a difference
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 28, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
Millenials have gotten a bad reputation. But the best of them may find a metal fabrication career extremely rewarding.
What does CAD/CAM and job shop management software integration mean?
- By David Ferguson and John Kubit
- Feb 28, 2014
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
So much of metal fabricating activity today is focused on the elimination of waste, and one of the bigger steps a company can take is integrating its CAD/CAM software with its job shop management software.
Tube bending basics: How to bend tubing and metal pipe
- Feb 24, 2014
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Although tube bending technology has evolved significantly over the years, the process still remains the same. Learn more about how to bend metal pipe here.
Mission-critical metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 17, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
No matter how eye-popping the technology, the means of getting a job done is secondary; the result is primary. This is where General Tool Co.'s "team of experts" appraoch comes into play.
Art for art's sake
- By Eric Lundin
- Feb 10, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
Metal sculptor Roy Mackey took a long, circuitous route to become an artist, and occupies an unusual niche. With no specific art classes or vocational education in his background, he learned metalworking bit by bit, and spends quite a bit of his time making sculptures that are realistic, but too unusual to represent real objects.
Laser photonics meets shop floor pragmatism
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 10, 2014
- Laser Welding
- Article
Pragmatism rules the day at Directed Light, a job shop focusing on a wide range of industrial laser applications, from UV to far-infrared.
How stamping and fabrication work together
- By Tim Heston
- Feb 4, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
At Fisher-Barton South Carolina, historically a stamping operation, now gets half of its revenue from products that use metal fabrication. But there's not a stamping and fabricating "side" to the business. In fact, the part flow shows just how complementary fabrication and stamping can be.
Professionalism in precision sheet metal manufacturing
- By Dan Davis
- Feb 3, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
How does a small western Michigan fabricating shop evolve into a key metal parts supplier to some of the most demanding OEM customers in the world? It is committed to lean manufacturing principles and has made strategic investments in new fabricating technology, but most of all, it has engaged employees that are comfortable with changes that come with continuous improvement efforts.
Sustaining metal fabricating success
- By Dan Davis
- Jan 30, 2014
- Shop Management
- Article
Metal fabricators can’t find the right manufacturing talent. Customers are more demanding. The current workforce is overworked. How can fabricating companies keep up? The FABRICATOR’s Editorial Advisory Board has some suggestions.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 04/30/2024
- Running Time:
- 53:00
Seth Feldman of Iowa-based Wertzbaugher Services joins The Fabricator Podcast to offer his take as a Gen Zer...
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