What have we learned?
Nov 1, 2009, ROBERT BROOKS, Editor E-mail: robert.brooks@penton.comWhat we've learned in 2009 is that we have to relearn some principles of freedom and prosperity...
Crisis of confidence
Sep 1, 2009, ROBERT BROOKS, Editor E-mail: robert.brooks@penton.comAs we pass the one-year mark for the Great Recession this much is clear: the financial correction of 2008 was only a preliminary event to the slow-rolling...
What are we waiting for?
Jul 1, 2009, ROBERT BROOKS, Editor E-mail: robert.brooks@penton.comThe recession is over, according to several recent reports citing evidence from government and financial experts, and researchers and investors, too....
A look at the future of automation
Jan 1, 2009, BRUCE VERNYI, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comOne part of the 100,000-ft2 Automation Center of Excellence that Lincoln Electric Co. opened next to its headquarters in Cleveland in November is a combined...
Where has U.S. automaking gone?
Nov 1, 2008, BRUCE VERNYI, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comIn the history of U.S. manufacturing from the East and across the Midwest, there have been renowned centers of expertise. There was Pittsburgh as the...
Welding Champions
Oct 1, 2008, Bruce Vernyi, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comThe 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...
Hire the incarcerated?
Sep 1, 2008, BRUCE VERNYI, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comAssociate Editor Clare Goldsberry writes about the use of a virtual welding program to teach inmates in California's prisons how to weld....
Setting standards is a tough job
Aug 1, 2008, Bruce Vernyi, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comI have had on my desk for the longest time the industry standard from the American Welding Society that established precise terminology and definitions...
Change Underway
Jul 1, 2008, Bruce Vernyi, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comOne of the things you can count on in business is change. Maybe your star salesman has been lured to another company. Or, your boss has decided to take...
Working Safely and Being Responsible
Jul 1, 2008, Bruce Vernyi, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.comIt should come as no surprise to anyone in the welding industry that welding fumes can be dangerous. Packaging for welding electrodes has carried warning...
Plasma Welding Has Unparalleled Advantages
Jun 1, 2008, By LAURENT RIMANO, Product Management Advanced Welding Technologies and Welding Equipment, Air Liquide Canada Edited by BRUCE VERNYI, Editor in ChiefManufacturing 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...
Technology that keeps welding dynamic
May 1, 2008, Bruce VernyiWhile scholars can trace welding back to prehistoric times, when bits of metal were lap-jointed and pressure welded together and when blacksmiths learned to forge weld iron...
Where is the Grass Greener?
Apr 18, 2008, Bruce VernyiBruce Vernyi, Editor-in-Chief E-mail: bvernyi@penton.com Although everyone acknowledges that there is a growing shortage of welders, it often seems difficult...
Rocket science, welding, and images of welding
Mar 12, 2008, Bruce VernyiWelding was a vital but overlooked technology in late February when a U.S. Navy ship the USS Lake Erie launched an SM-3 missile to whack a defunct satellite...
Preparing for the Storm
Feb 13, 2008, Bruce VernyiThere are growing pressures on the welding industry that will make business interesting, if not downright difficult. To start, prices can be counted on...
I Can Do That Better If
Jan 1, 2008, Bruce VernyiIts a sure bet that everything is going to change at the exact moment that youre comfortable and/or when you think you know everything. Many of the articles...
