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July 2010 | Vol. 40 No. 7
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departments
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Editor’s Corner
Knowledge: A terrible thing to waste
More metal
fabricators should be willing to step forward and let customers know they can do more
than just produce to the print. They can offer customers a wealth of fabricating knowledge
that can lead to cost savings and better product designs.
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Readers’ Forum
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Calendar of Events
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Industry News
OSHA establishes severe violator program | Welder “Bob” dedicated
as Hobart Institute celebrates 80 years | Roll Coater completes acquisition of Material
Sciences assets
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Product Highlights
Band saws handle large-diameter tubing | Serpentine machines
bend tube without rotation between bends | Shape-cutting system slices 4.5-in.-thick
steel with oxyfuel torch
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Applications
Four-hole cluster punch achieves 4 million hits
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Precision Matters
Putting 3-D CAD on the grill, Part VII
Working on a
design for the Shashlik Grill, columnist Gerald Davis turns his attention to fasteners as it’s
time to shore up the support structure.
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The FABRICATOR
Metal Market
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Product News
Technology innovations in the fabricating industry
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Classified Ads
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Advertisers’ Index
|coming in August 2010|
Learn about Quality Fabricators Inc.,
Addison, Ill., and its experience with using offline
bending software to reduce bend cycle time.
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The Back Page
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of welding
For as long as he
can remember, Tad Wendler, a 27-year-old welder from Rainier, Wash., wanted to serve his
country in the military. A hip ailment kept him out of the armed forces, but he’s found
another way to serve his country—welding and repairing battle-damaged vehicles in the
Middle East.
thefabricator.com July Web exclusives
Discover some of the new shielding
gas blends
that are causing fabricators to re-
think their old-school habits.
Read how an automotive parts manu-
facturer
is using sports software to help it im-
plement lean manufacturing principles.
Welding inspection
An inspector cannot inspect quality in a weldment. Quality
standards have to be established at the beginning of a job, and every ensuing step
involved with that job must meet those standards.
Lean manufacturing
Web Content Manager Vicki Bell introduces us to Metcam
Inc., a precision sheet metal fabricator from Alpharetta, Ga.
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