While welding is a highly technical career filled with specialized skills, many people often overlook one of the most ...

Creating a PQR analysis is the first step in transforming a value stream. Knowing what you make, how many, and how you make ...

When the cutting process is over, the pallet delivers the parts and skeleton to a table for automated part extraction. Two ...

Paying for time becomes even more detrimental as input costs rise. When input costs increase, companies need to get more ...

“When you start folding over a curve,” Nyvang said, “good things start to happen.” Consider the traditional sheet metal ...

Welding fumes generated in a heavy fab shop often result in a haze that just lingers over everyone. Ambient compact fume ...

Manufacturers and job shops are doing what they can to attract and retain employees in anticipation of opportunities in the ...

One feature, in particular, that has helped Major Metals—a third-generation, family-owned tube manufacturer in Mansfield, ...

The longer hourly employees work, the more they’re paid. So, in one sense, the less efficient they are, the more they take ...

A mechanical engineer, Ferrell knew the metal fabrication industry, having been exposed to it while attending Georgia Tech in ...

Heavy fabrication shops don’t look like they once did. Robots for cutting and welding are finding homes on the shop floor.

Warren Overton, an instructor at Augusta Technical College in Augusta, Ga., walked over to the front of the manufacturing lab ...