Dan Davis
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3 days ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
Rob Stiels is the manager of Prima Power’s Training and Technology Center outside of Chicago. He gets a lot of customer requests and often helps those metal fabricators find out what can and can’t be done on the company’s machines.
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6 days ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
For many in the metal fabricating industry, making America great again starts with a robust domestic manufacturing base. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen overnight, and the on-again/off-again tariff rollout isn’t doing anyone any favors. In President Donald Trump’s first administration, tariffs were put in place to shore up the domestic steelmaking industry.
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1 week ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
Editor’s Note: If you have interest in joining the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association’s board of directors, the annual nomination deadline is June 30. Please reach out to Deana Hill at 815-227-8238 for more information. Sarah Richards, visionary and CEO of Jones Metal in Mankato, Minn., is like many others who have found a home in the metal fabricating industry. She’s had to catch up with peers who have been at it for decades.
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1 week ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
The world of motorsports hardly seems to have anything in common with contract manufacturing, but if there’s one thing that the skilled welders and fabricators working for a race team both know, it’s flexibility. That’s the one thing that keeps the vehicles on the track and helps to generate improvements in lap times. It also happens to be the one thing that’s enabled Hendrick Motorsports to replicate its winning ways on the track in the competitive world of defense-related contract manufacturing.
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2 weeks ago |
thefabricator.com | Dan Davis
The big job of the afternoon has made its way to the hardware insertion department. A laser cutting machine cut the blanks, and a press brake operator worked his magic to add some louvers, creating the bottom of what’s to become electrical boxes. All that needs to be added to the 100 workpieces are five self-clinching nuts and 10 studs. That sounds a lot simpler than it is. Does the hardware insertion equipment operator know exactly where the nuts and studs are to go?
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