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The Fabricator June 2024
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.
Is there an alternative to those wooden pallets?
- By Jordan Meyer, CPIM
- Jun 27, 2024
- Materials Handling
- Article
Moving away from old dunnage methods can help fabricating shops meet their productivity, financial, and sustainability goals.
How one shop solves complex material handling challenges
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 27, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
American Precision Engineering launched in 2020, right as COVID-19 was shutting down the world. Constant communication is a key driver behind the company’s success.
An overview of oxyfuel cutting
- By Dan Davis
- Jun 25, 2024
- Oxyfuel Cutting
- Article
Metal fabricators have more choices than ever to cut thick plate. With that said, oxyfuel cutting still remains a popular technology for the job.
Quoting software helps fill the gaps in the fab shop
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Jun 24, 2024
- Manufacturing Software
- Article
Quoting software made especially for laser cutting helps mitigate time away from all the other tasks small metal fabrication shop owners have to do.
The cutting edge of leveling knife blanks
- By Dan Davis
- Jun 20, 2024
- Metals/Materials
- Article
To keep up with demand, Winkler Knives had to migrate from handcrafting each of its products to more modern manufacturing practices.
Momentum Manufacturing Group accelerates automation efforts
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 18, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Momentum Manufacturing Group (No. 9 on the 2024 FAB 40) ramps up automation efforts by designing multiprocess cells and considering the use of autonomous mobile robots.
Business intelligence software helps Maysteel Industries grow
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 18, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Maysteel Industries taps into software that helps automate the flow of information, including productivity and on-time delivery metrics for its five facilities across the country. That has helped the fabricator broaden its services and earn a spot on the FAB 40 for the third year in a row.
Standard Iron’s owners build on top of decades of success
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 17, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Owner Resource Group purchased Standard Iron & Wire Works in January 2022. Far from a strip and flip, investors are helping an already successful metal fabrication company grow, which has landed the Minnesota fabricator at No. 17 on the 2024 FAB 40 list.
Colorado-based Kennedy Coachworks takes on car restorations
- By Rafael Guerrero
- Jun 15, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Craig Kennedy takes on interesting, unique car restoration projects at his one-man shop, Colorado-based Kennedy Coachworks.
A metal fabrication company’s 5-step transformation process
- By Dan Davis
- Jun 14, 2024
- Laser Cutting
- Article
Jason Bramblett purchased Jaeger Fabrication in 2019, and shortly thereafter the company’s transformation began.
Customer communication drives growth for contract fabricator
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 13, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Earlier this year, the Lou-Rich's sales and technical team spent an entire day with a major customer, talking about design basics for sheet metal fabrication and machining. Such communication is more important now than ever for the Minnesota contract fabricator, which lands No. 24 on the 2024 FAB 40.
Miller Fabrication Solutions employees add more value with automation
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 10, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
Customers at Miller Fabrication Solutions pay for cutting, bending, welding, finishing, and other value-adding steps. They don’t pay for denesting or excessive machine downtime.
Taking a lean approach in the welding department
- By Dan Davis
- Jun 7, 2024
- Automation and Robotics
- Article
Experts reveal that starting a continuous improvement campaign in the welding department isn't as hard as a metal fabrication shop might think. Jason Becker from Underground Metal Works and Brian Engelhardt from MERRILL Technologies (No. 13 on the 2024 FAB 40), weigh in.
Optimizing the punch/laser cutting combination machine
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 6, 2024
- Punching and Other Holemaking
- Article
Special Products & Manufacturing (SPM) purchased its first punch/laser combo more than a decade ago. The Texas-based contract fabricator (No. 39 on the 2024 FAB 40) now has four automated systems that together have reshaped the company’s blanking operation.
FAB 40: Navigating the transition of metal fabrication
- By Tim Heston
- Jun 5, 2024
- Shop Management
- Article
On the surface, most metal fabricating companies are producing parts and assemblies, just as they have for years. But underneath, some significant changes are afoot. The 2024 FAB 40 list exemplifies that.
- Podcasting
- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 06/25/2024
- Running Time:
- 64:35
Matt Brunner, co-founder and co-owner of Manitowoc, Wis.-based Brunner Fabrication joins us to talk about how he transformed...
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