Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 1, 2025

High-tech company TRUMPF is introducing a new Cutting Assistant application, which employs artificial intelligence to help users improve the quality of laser-cut edges. Then the machine cuts the sheet metal once more. When it comes to productivity, this application creates a competitive edge for fabricators.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 11, 2025

Fronius CMT Welding Process Sets New Standard for Precision, Versatility, and Control The Cold Metal Transfer (CMT) welding process from Fronius is revolutionizing manufacturing across industries. This low-heat input makes it ideal for delicate applications such as sheets as thin as 0.3 mm and materials sensitive to distortion.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 20, 2025

When Finn Power and Prima Industrie joined forces in 2008 to create Prima Power, the companies combined a massive amount of knowledge to serve the global sheet metal fabrication industry. Prima Industrie Corporate Headquarters in Torino, Italy home to the new state-of-the-art 2D and 3D Laser Factory.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 22, 2025

Space-saving storage systems and high-performance saws are crucial for metal-working companies to store and cut sheet metal and metal bar stock. This is why many metal-working companies rely on bandsaws such as the KASTOtec series or KASTOvariospeed circular saws for their day-to-day work.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

He will be responsible for all TRUMPF programming and production software products, including Oseon, Boost and TRUMPF Flux, for sheet metal processing. TRUMPF is one of the technology and market leaders in highly versatile machine tools for sheet metal processing and in the field of industrial lasers. TRUMPF Inc.,

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

More welding production can be achieved with the same number of available hands, and employees can be cross trained to tackle different fabrication steps in a much shorter timeframe without a complicated apprenticeship. Programming the TruArc welding cobot is easy. TRUMPF’s TruArc Weld 1000.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 21, 2023

A cloud-based web app solution for analyzing and optimizing sheet metal parts aims to give sheet metal fabrication more process reliability in manufacturing. However, this is mostly in the minds of experienced sheet metal specialists who are gradually retiring. Photo source: TRUMPF GROUP.)

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These reliable, flexible and precise systems result in higher levels of productivity for fabricators. These reliable, flexible and precise systems result in higher levels of productivity for fabricators. to-1.57”, or even double sheets, depending upon the material and selected laser power. ″-x-79.5″ ″-x-79.5″

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MAY 7, 2025

As a modular and portable solution, the FaroArm offers easy setup and transport, making it suitable for diverse environments from shop floors to field applications. In non-contact scanning, Quantum X FaroArm delivers 30 m accuracy with a scan rate of up to 1.2 FARO Technologies , Inc. , m arms and up to 63 m for 4.0

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Clean Tube Technology is especially well-suited for fabricators cutting stainless tubes for the water treatment, food processing or other clean environment industries. Another reason fabricators look to this option is for their secondary process which involves tube bending when using a mandrel. About BLM GROUP. www.blmgroup.com.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Vision systems expand a robots range of applications with increased flexibility to handle greater variation in parts and processes. These systems provide two-dimensional feedback to guide basic robotic functions and are most frequently used in simple applications that involve batches of very similar parts in pre-determined locations.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Versatile applications across the shop floor The EasyFlippers versatility makes it ideal for various tasks, including flipping plates or stacks for cutting or quality control, handling plasma or oxyfuel cut parts for deslagging and grinding, and flipping parts during milling, deburring, or press brake operations.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Images: AMADA AMADA’s metal fabrication equipment is known for its safety and product range, but the inadequate enforcement of existing safety regulations for cheaper alternatives underscores the urgent need for stricter oversight and proper education. In the world of metal fabrication, safety standards can sometimes vary.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Digital wire feeders and smart systems make welding easier and more consistent, while advanced filler metals and electrodes offer better performance in demanding conditions. These technologies drive advancements in precision while reducing costs across a range of industries. HyperFill RA benefits include: Increased travel speeds up to 58%.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 14, 2024

The Miller OptX 2 kW is ideal for sheet metal and general fabrication applications with high-volume, low-mix and TIG processes in place that are dealing with bottlenecks, often due to lack of throughput speed and labor force availability. Welding technology has been evolving for at least 3,000 years.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 2, 2024

So, in 2016, Oliver launched Precise Metal Products with a CNC Turret Punch. BlueScope Distribution and Precise Metal Products have developed a strong partnership over the years. It’s been a seamless, effortless process dealing with Precise Metal Products. We process and supply to specification, and our clients then install.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If you are using weld nuts or inserts to create threads in thin-walled materials in metal manufacturing processes, there is a strong, high-quality connection alternative tool that many fabricators in the United States are not familiar with — even though it has been around for decades. Your product is now ready for assembly. “Our

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Hirebotics (Nashville, TN), a leading provider of collaborative robots for metal fabrication, launches support for the new Miller® Auto DeltaWeld with its Cobot Welder. It’s designed for sheet metal, structural steel, and heavy industrial manufacturing. Cobots are designed to provide simple, safe automation,” Nolan said.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 17, 2023

Cobots take care of repetitive and unergonomic manual press brake applications, enabling companies to staff previously unfillable roles and improve workplace ergonomics. Cobots take care of repetitive and unergonomic manual press brake applications, enabling companies to staff previously unfillable roles and improve workplace ergonomics.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JANUARY 15, 2025

Metalworkers want to move past the buzz surrounding AI and discover how they can put the applications to use today. Fabricating & Metalworking asked a representative of Autodesk Inc. However, with AI, the opportunity overcomes skepticism. There were more than global 5,000 respondents.)

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Additive Manufacturing

AUGUST 8, 2022

Last week we saw new facilities to scale the 3D printing of batteries and critical parts for gas turbines representing significant investment to accelerate the application of additive manufacturing. iSEEK3D is a lightweight Windows application that installs on your computer in under a minute.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Additive Manufacturing Zone, showcasing various techniques within Additive Manufacturing include Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, Material Extrusion, Sheet lamination, Binder jetting, Cold Spray processing, Material jetting, Directed-Energy-Deposition, and many more of the most advanced technologies within this sector.

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Additive Manufacturing

JANUARY 11, 2023

IN-VISION Announces World´s First Native 4K Light Engine: IN-VISION Technologies AG announced the next big step in DLP-Projection: the first native 4K Light Engine for industrial applications. For large-scale 3D printers for construction and proprietary concrete-based ink.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 15, 2022

BLM Group USA, a global leader in the manufacture of tube and flat sheet processing solutions, has announced the appointment of Mitchell Breuker as its regional sales manager (RSM) for Ohio, responsible for developing sales and customer relations in the region. BLM GROUP is a global leader in tube and sheet metal processing solutions.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When an optional flat copper tooling plate and a fabricated lower platen is specified, special fixturing can easily be installed. Another option is a reinforced upper crown fabrication that can accommodate multiple weld guns. Pedestal-Style Resistance Welder Combines Versatility and Small Footprint T.J. Look no further than T.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 21, 2024

Hirebotics says that thanks to the Miller Auto DeltaWeld, its Cobot Welder System is future-proof, easy to use, and ready to boost fabrication productivity immediately upon installation. The company noted that it designed the system for sheet metal, structural steel, and heavy industrial manufacturing. The Appleton, Wis.-based

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2022

Integrated stepper motors were designed into a series of sheet metal–bending press brakes for Cincinnati Inc. provides laser cutting systems, automation, press brakes, shears, conveyor systems, powder metal systems, and additive manufacturing systems. company has supplied more than 50,000 metal fabrication machines.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The technology especially benefits wind tower, offshore and pressure vessel applications. During weld execution, Adaptio uses feedback from its sensors to adjust weld metal deposition rate, travel speed and bead placement while staying within the Weld Procedure Specification so that the complete weld will not need any patching.

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Modern Machine Shop

DECEMBER 8, 2022

.” That piece reports on the experience and viewpoint of a New Jersey shop, Imperial Machine & Tool, that had invested in laser powder bed fusion capability to provide metal additive manufacturing services. Part of the reason this expansion made sense for Imperial was its machining expertise.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

” Prima Power , the sheet metal machine tool brand of Prima Industrie, a global leader in sheet metal working manufacturing solutions, will exhibit its latest advancements at Booth #S22107 at FABTECH 2024, North America’s largest metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing event.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A four-person original arcade cabinet made with a sheet laser for processing the controls, BLM front panel logo and various panels including hardware access holes. BLM GROUP featured gaming equipment built using its flat sheet and tube fabricating machines at FABTECH 2024 in Orlando, Fla.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In many industrial sectors where sheet metal handling is required, vacuum handling is increasingly used, and suction cups have become an essential element of safety, reliability, and productivity. The CTC cup series has a large deflection capability, adapting easily to gripping flat, convex, or angular sheet metal.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

3D Systems has acquired Titan Additive LLC (Titan Robotics), the Colorado-based designer and fabricator of large-format, industrial 3D printers. These configurable systems give the customer tremendous flexibility to choose the best combined format to meet their application need.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Manufacturers’ Monthly explores how the industrial gas experts are helping a highly regarded Australian fabricator continue to grow. Celebrating its 50th year, Rockpress – Rocklea Pressed Metal – has a reputation for custom-made fabricating work, either for one-off projects or higher volume demand.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For many fabrication shops that perform TIG welding, the switch from manual to automation is a promising option. This requires precision focus from a skilled welder, and everyone knows companies are struggling to find skilled laborers,” says Michael Fischesser, CI’s product application manager for EZ Weld. Our cell is fully enclosed.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2024

Image: Novarc Technologies Novarc Technologies, a full-stack robotics company specialising in the design and manufacturing of cobots and AI systems for robotic welding applications, aims to address the shortage in welders with their autonomous SWR cobots.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The genesis for this innovation was engineering marvel, John Duncan, now 90 years old, and his late cousin Jim Duncan, who discovered the mathematical theorems of folding ‘intextensional’ curved sheet. The world first metal forming process has now been used to create forward-thinking products for the building industry.

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