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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

The inside of the building hasn’t changed much. When you step inside, it still smells the same. The air is thick with metal ...

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 ...