Be it stamping, metal bending or metal rolling, over the years, quality assurance for metal fabrication have gotten much stricter. This means that producing parts takes longer than it did some years ago and is not a problem that can be solved with just faster laser cutting. Repeated maintenance has […]

Sassy Engines is primarily known for producing engines used in the sport of tractor pulling. A bold decision made by the management in early 2017 has put the company into the fabricating world. This step was taken because waiting on smaller fabricated parts for weeks on end caused major delays. […]

In late 2017, Proto Labs Inc., a company with well over two thousand employees dedicated to rapid prototyping purchased a much smaller, RAPID, at around $120 million. RAPID Manufacturing, a company out of Nashua, dedicated to metal fabrication, has been estimated to be worth $8 million around 2010. Two peas […]

Fails are not a sweet sight for sore eyes, especially in stainless steel fabrication, aluminium fabrication or steel fabrication. Nobody likes their metal rolling machine making uneven rollings or laser cutting machine to leaves bruises on the edge. Same for die fails, no one wants them but only a few […]

Robots have been in the custom metal fabrication shops for years. But they are mostly placed there for a specific task like laser cutting, metal bending, metal rolling, and especially welding. Small fixture designs, workpiece handling, etc. have made this welding robot more flexible to work with. However, if you […]

Ever heard a metal fabrication shop manager talk about career path management? It almost never happens. Some would say they don’t have time for that. They would think they just need to keep working. That’s why some of them can’t push their luck to the edge. But if they knew […]

We all know steel is widely used metals all over. It is made up of low carbon alloy that is nothing but iron, tin, and carbon. Steel industries are the spine of any process of industrialization. Steel and iron form the basis of any primary industry. Steel = Iron + […]

Leo Valerio, a veteran metal fabricator who has work experience of more than forty years in his metal fabrication shop, the Valco Planer Works Inc. that joined after his father had set it up with the top-notch machines of that time. It was 1986 and he has been around those […]

If we are being honest, metal bending press brakes are one of the most dangerous machines that metal fabrication industry is blessed with. According to The US Department of Labor, these press brakes causes more than 350 amputations each year. But these are only the reported ones. This explains such […]

Machine Maintenance is certainly a big part of managing a metal fabrication shop. No matter how good your machine is, if it is not maintained properly, it will start making the fabrication processes like laser cutting, metal bending, welding, metal rolling, etc. inefficient. That’s why to ensure the best results […]