Dan Davis
Editor-in-Chief at The Fabricator
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1 week ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
People in the manufacturing community have a lot of love and skepticism when it comes to advanced technology. Just look at robots. They are more productive than humans for certain tasks, but they also are looked at as replacements for human workers. This is a case where both observations are rooted in fact. Robots do take over certain tasks that were once done by humans, but those robotic installations also end up creating more job opportunities, whether they might be technicians or programmers.
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1 week ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
El departamento de doblado tiende a ser el cuello de botella de fabricación para muchas empresas de fabricación de metales. Algo tan simple como una ausencia no planificada puede desorganizar un turno. Los operadores de prensas dobladoras, especialmente los experimentados, son difíciles de encontrar, y las empresas no pueden ir a las universidades locales y contratar a un estudiante con amplios conocimientos de conformado de metales.
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2 weeks ago |
tribtown.com | Dan Davis
The Community Foundation of Jackson County encourages giving and provides grants to help programs and the people they serve throughout our community. The foundation staff and our 19-member board of directors, with help from other community volunteers, do our best to wisely administer more than $19 million in assets to generate earnings that fund scholarships, classroom education grants, community impact grants and our fall grant cycle. Those grants make an impact across Jackson County.
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2 weeks ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
In the midst of increased tariffs and bold political talk about rebuilding U.S. manufacturing might, TRUMPF formally commemorated the opening of the seventh expansion of its manufacturing operations in Farmington, Conn.—its 55,800-sq-ft. Smart Factory. “This building is not just a manufacturing facility. It’s the next step in American manufacturing,” said Lutz Labisch, president/CEO, TRUMPF Inc.
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3 weeks ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
In early April, The Fabricator conducted a survey of its subscribers and members of the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, with one question asking them “Do you see these tariffs being good for bolstering U.S. manufacturing in the long term?” Forty-five percent of respondents said “yes,” and 16% said “maybe.”That’s a significant share of the metal fabricating community believing that manufacturing in the U.S. can grow, enabling the country to become a self-sufficient maker of goods.
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