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The Fabricator March 2008
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.
Automated pipe and tube welding
- By Chris Norris and Pat Clayton
- Mar 11, 2008
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
Learn how automated pipe welding and tube welding can provide ROI usually within six to 24 months. with quality improvements typically seen immediately.
The nanofiber factor
- By Travis Haynam
- Mar 11, 2008
- Metals/Materials
- Article
Nanofibers--fibers 1,000-times smaller than the diameter of a human hair--can help to improve filtration efficiency, filter cleanability, filter life, and energy consumption when the cartridge filters are used properly.
Rolling to market - Part I
- By Dale Kroskey
- Mar 11, 2008
- Roll Forming
- Article
For many jobs, the toughest part isn't roll forming the parts themselves—it's getting those parts to the customer. Parts are cut-to-length, then placed on immense wooden frames in such a way that allows the maximum load on a truck. That's a lot of material handling. But what if a shop eliminated the packing altogether by taking the roll forming to the job site itself?
Coming to your sensors
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 11, 2008
- Bending and Forming
- Article
Stamping sensors can go a long way in protecting valuable dies and eliminating downtime associated with repairing dies after crashes. So why aren't more shops using them? Perhaps it's because their misconceptions get in the way of making a wise investment.
Service center fabricates its future
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 11, 2008
- Plasma Cutting
- Article
Denman & Davis calls itself the largest general-line, independent service center in the Northeast. The company has about 65,000 square feet of inventory and manufacturing space in Clifton, N.J., another 70,000 square feet in Slatersville, R.I., and another 35,000 in Albany, N.Y. The company distributes a variety of hot-rolled and cold-finished bars, structural shapes, sheets, and tubing, but has discovered a fruitful niche with plate, used in pressure vessel, power generation, and processing applications.
Work flow goes virtual
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 11, 2008
- Shop Management
- Article
Mid-West Metal Products, Muncie, Ind., has perfected work flow through ERP and the company's virtual manufacturing plan.
The facts on welding titanium
- By Stephen Luckowski and John Lawmon
- Mar 11, 2008
- Arc Welding
- Article
A new resource tool takes away the guesswork and the apprehension when welding titanium: The American Welding Society (AWS) D1.9/D1.9M Structural Welding Code—Titanium. Released in July 2007, the code goes beyond the limitations of previous documents by providing the information required to engineer a structural titanium product from start to finish.
Machine shop sees the (laser) light
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 11, 2008
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
MG Products Inc., Elkhart, Ind., successfully made the transition from a machine shop to a full-scale tube fabricator thanks to the investment in a laser tube cutter.
Virtually welding
- By Tim Heston
- Mar 11, 2008
- Arc Welding
- Article
Today several companies offer technologies that help beginning welders get that hand motion just right. None claims that the technology will replace the real thing, of course, but they do say that training in the virtual world can give students a significant leg up by the time they weld for the first time. It helps teach students what really happens between the welding arc and workpiece, why certain hand motions produce good beads while other motions don't. And it also may help introduce welding to students who wouldn't have given the trade a second thought.
Recruit, train, and retain
- By Dan Davis
- Mar 11, 2008
- Shop Management
- Article
Time has passed, but the times haven't changed that much. A little over two years ago The FABRICATOR's Editorial Advisory Board engaged in a roundtable discussion at the 2005 FABTECH® International & AWS Welding Show in Chicago. The subject that day centered around what industry and...
What CNC programmers wish you knew
- By Gerald Davis
- Mar 1, 2008
- Shop Management
- Article
State-of-the-art CNC programming systems speed the first stage of CNC programming by allowing the programmer to import CAD models to define the geometry of the part. That's just the first part, however. To really speed up the design phase, CAD programmers should keep several tips in mind.
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- 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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