TO BOLDLY GO This unique supplier partnership between Heil and Harco Metal Products enhances production and quality procedures with a bold approach to lean manufacturing.
FOUR PILLARS FOR EFFECTIVE LEAN TRAINING How does a small metal stamping company carry out the necessary training as part of its lean implementation without raising costs? Rick Bohan of Chagrin River Consulting provides one Ohio metal stamper with some of the answers.
GOING THE DISTANCE Finding a handheld angle grinder that can take a daily beating and still deliver over the long haul can be a challenge for today’s metal fabrication shops. Contracting Engineering Consultants, Inc. discovers a potential answer in a new angle grinder from Fein Power Tools, Inc..
LAYING DOWN THE LAW Litigation Lunacy: 75 percent of manufacturers faced at least one new lawsuit recently, with 53 percent facing 6 or more new suits. And 25 percent of the manufacturers surveyed reported facing at least one $20 million action.
BRAVE NEW WORLD Bill Canis of The Manufacturing Institute examines how certain factors are dramatically altering manufacturing supply chains and literally changing your business world.
FOUR WAYS TO REDUCE ABRASIVE CONSUMPTION Abrasive costs have recently skyrocketed and pose a huge problem for many companies in the industry. It's imperative to reduce your abrasive consumption. These tips will help you do that.
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PRESS BRAKE ENHANCEMENTS INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY Trumpf enhanced its TruBend Series 5000 precision press brakes further to improve productivity and efficiency in bending. These enhancements include a new visual setup and positioning aid and the new Mobile Control.
TWENTY PERCENT FASTER ANGLE ROLL The CE40MR3 angle roll from Ercolina can bend a wide range of tube, pipe and profiles to a CLR as small as 4X diameter of the work piece.
NIBBLER CUTS IN FOUR DIRECTIONS The Nibbler N500-8 from Trumpf Inc. cuts in all four cutting directions and cuts steel sheets up to 0.197 in thick. Reverse cutting is easy to do with the N500-8.
COMPACT, HIGH-SPEED ROBOTS DENSO offers fabricators high-speed, four-, five- and six-axis robots for payloads up to 20 kg and reaches from 350 to 1,300 mm.
SHOWTIME: FABTECH Over 1,000 exhibitors, 35,000 attendees and live demos of metal forming, fabricating, tube and pipe, stamping, lasers, thermal spray and welding equipment. McCormick Place, Chicago, November 15-18. If you can't make it, don’t miss our Show-in-Print.
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