Manufacturing

How does the cost to operate older CO2 laser cutting machines compare to today’s Fiber laser cutting machines? When looking at Fiber laser cutting technology and considering the productivity benefits,…

With the uncertainty of today’s supply chains and the rising cost of raw materials, automated material storage systems provide a reliable buffer for metal fabricators. With costs for raw materials…

Innovations in software technologies have been the real driving force behind manufacturers realizing the full potential of new hardware innovations in the metal fabricating industry. While machines have become more…

As a job shop, you never want to turn down work if you can help it. You never know when a job for a new customer could lead to other…

How efficient is your material flow to the laser cutting system and how efficient is the unloading, sorting, and stacking of the finished cut parts? For the most part, laser…

Gaining the edge in today’s competitive market requires intelligence derived from data and the ability to act upon information to improve processes and machine performance. If two companies have the…

Meeting the demands of your customers’ production orders without having to worry about operator shortages is where automated bending technologies and modern programming systems can really make a difference in…

Gaining the edge in today’s competitive market requires intelligence derived from data and the ability to act upon information to improve processes and machine performance. Measuring the Data If you’re…

As mentioned in our previous series, we’ve identified some of the most common areas for process variability and bottlenecks in the metal fabricating value chain. Press brake efficiency and capacity…

In continuation of our multi-part series on analyzing the value chain, we now look at manual CNC press brake bending operations. CNC bending operations continue to be a mostly manually…