October 1, 2008
Features
Equipment and Automation
Welding Subtly Reshapes Car of Tomorrow
In the wake of racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s death in the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, NASCAR officials set out to engineer a safer race car....
Processes
Ten Tips for Improving Plasma Cutting Quality
Plasma cutters are so easy to use that it's tempting to take your new plasma cutter out of the box and go to work. However, there are a few practices...
Stud Welding
Stud welding is a type of spot welding in which a bolt or specially formed nut is welded onto another metal part. The bolts may be fed automatically into...
Design
Design Implications of Sandwich Panels
Automated hybrid laser welding technology offers numerous benefits to the fabrication industry, notably increased production times, improved weld quality...
Off the Clock
2008 Image of Welding Award Winners
The awards recognizes the people, organizations and businesses that have played a role in making the welding industry interesting to newcomers and respected...
Departments
Commentary
Welding Champions
The FabTech International & AWS Welding Show once again was the venue for the annual the American Welding Society's Image of Welding Awards at which the...
Industry News
Thermadyne Automation teams with Torchmate
Thermadyne Automation (www.Thermadyne.com) and Torchmate CNC Cutting Systems have teamed to bring automation to metal fabricating shops, and to provide...
Springfield Manufacturing Gets AS9100 Certification
Springfield Manufacturing LLC (www.springfieldmfgLLC.com), said its quality management system has received certification to ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100-B...
Mitsubishi to Open Plant in Michigan
MC Machinery Systems Inc./Mitsubishi Waterjet (www.mitsubishi-world.com) announced at the IMTS trade show in Chicago in mid-September that all Mitsubishi...
Internet connections
DON'T TRY THIS AT WORK OR AT HOME It's one thing to send the new guy to the tool crib for the magnet that will pick up a piece of aluminum, or to tell...
Blodgett's Basics
Re-examining Intermittent Fillet Welds, Part II
In the first part of this discussion, we learned that intermittent fillet welds are not always the lowest cost option, nor do they always reduce distortion....
Barton's Q & A
Welding galvanized steel
Q: I have a fabrication shop and have been having difficulty welding some galvanized steel. I have been told to use a stainless steel welding electrode...
New Products
Products
PROCESSES High speed 2D/3D laser cutting system Prima North America Inc. (www.prima-na.com) said the next generation of its Domino laser cutting series...
