Production Part Approval Process – What You Need to Know Fabrication requires not only quality and precision, but consistency. We’re making the same parts over and over to be used in the same manner across different devices, machines, and equipment...
Where Have All the Welders Gone? A Look at Welder Shortage in the US. A few weeks back, we talked about the idea of machines one day replacing welders and fabricators. If a day is coming where that happens, it’s a ways off. Right now, there’s a very high...
What Exactly is Vibranium Metal? Is it Real? Love them or hate them, the Marvel comic book movies have ruled the box office for nearly a decade now, making characters like Iron Man, Black Widow, and Thor household names. And the latest movie, Black...
How Metal is Formed and Fabricated In our last post, we talked about a fictional metal called vibranium. In comic books (and the recent Black Panther movie), vibranium is special because, in addition to being quite strong and lightweight, it can absorb...
It’s a Great Time to Be a Welder. Here’s What to Do. In a recent post, we talked about the welder shortage America is facing. To give a quick recap, in 1988, there were 570,000 welders in the US. As of 2012, there were 360,000. By 2020, the American...
How Robotics Help Welding and Fabricating These days, machines and robotics have found their way into just about everything we do. While this has been a very good thing overall, it has come with certain drawbacks. On the economic front, as automation...
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