June 1, 2008
Features
Plasma Welding Has Unparalleled Advantages
Manufacturing firms can substantially increase their productivity, while improving the quality and appearance of welded joints in different types of specialized metal fabrication through the use of automated plasma welding...
Koike Aronson Celebrating Plant Expansion and 90th Anniversary
Koike Aronson/Ransome, Inc., a manufacturer of cutting and positioning equipment for metalworking, recently opened the latest expansion of its Arcade, N.Y., facility and used the opening of the expanded facility to celebrate its 90th year in business...
Shop Software: Solving Problems with ERP for Job Shops
Miller Welding and Machine Co. (www.millerwelding.com) is a third-generation welding and machining company that specializes in heavy steel industrial fabrication – from 1 lb. to 40,000 lbs...
Shop Stories
Structural Steel Contractor Gains 30-Percent Productivity Increase
The underlying support structure and how it enables a building to stand up to modern-day demands for decade can be the most fascinating part of a skyscraper...
Better Control of Welding Helps R.H. Peterson to Produce a new Line of Grills
Robert H. Peterson Co. (www.rhpeterson.com), City of Industry, Calif. produces premium-quality Fire Magic gas grills and Real-Fyre gas logs that are sold domestically and internationally at specialty dealers of patio, barbeque and fireplace fixtures and furnishings...
Utilizing a Mahaffey Fabric Structure
Weather delays and worker productivity can impact a welding business’ bottom line...
Departments
Speak up about proposed new regulations
No matter who wins the November election, John McCain or Barack Obama, Washington insiders expect that there will be renewed interest in adding...
Article on E2 found to be misleading
E2 is good in very particular instances; (but) it will not work for a lot of shops who need flexibility because despite what your article states...
Lincoln Electric Donates to AWS Foundation Campaign to Relieve Welder Shortage
The Lincoln Electric Co. (www.lincolnelectric.com) will donate $300,000 to the American Welding Society Foundation (www.aws.org)...
Focus on the Internet
LS Industries (www.lsindustries.com), which designs, engineers and manufactures metal cleaning equipment, has dedicated a part of its Internet site to replacement parts for its industrial equipment...
People
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products (esabna.com) made several changes in the management of its sales operations....
Pneumatic clamp for end-prep tools
A pneumatic clamping option is available for Esco Tool’s (www.escotool.com) Ground, Tube Weasel, and Wart Millhog rightangle welding end-prep tools...
Manual inspection with conventional and phased-array ultrasound
Olympus NDT (www.olympusNDT.com) has introduced a new Manual Weld Inspection Solution that includes conventional and phased array ultrasound with new software for the field-proven OmniScan flaw detector plus a new line of WPS series phased-array probes...
Water-cooled torches
Weldcraft (www.weldcraft.com) has introduced new water-cooled TIG torches for high-amperage, continuous duty welding applications...
Weld tip inspection system
Ensuring weld tip quality is one of the most critical factors in producing high quality, consistent spot welds...
New capacitive discharge welder
Miyachi Unitek (www.miyachiunitek.com) said it has redesigned its 1000Ws Advanced Dual Pulse (ADP) welder to provide improved productivity, weld consistency and reliability...
Hardsurfacing electrodes
Select-Arc Inc. (www.select-arc.com) has introduced two complex carbide hardsurfacing electrodes that are said to extend typical wear life by 33 percent over standard chromium carbide alloys...
Hardsurfacing electrodes
Select-Arc Inc. (www.select-arc.com) has introduced two complex carbide hardsurfacing electrodes that are said to extend typical wear life by 33 percent over standard chromium carbide alloys...
Zirconia alumina flapdisks
CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels (www.cgwheels.com) has expanded its U.S.-manufactured Z3 flap-disc line with the introduction of XXL and compact flap discs...
Jay Leno learns about burns
I had the great pleasure of meeting Jay Leno just before the Winternationals when Don Schumacher Racing took Gary Scelzi’s Oakley Funny Car over to Jay’s Garage in Burbank...
