Category: Fab Shop Tips

Beginner Basics You are just starting out in the metal fabrication industry, or perhaps you are a welder or machine shop wanting to expand your services to current and potential clients. How do you set yourself up to do fab work? Anyone with experience in metalworking can start doing fabrication with the right equipment. All […]

Plan Ahead for Problems In an attempt to keep management and staff always positive in their outlook, top-level leaders in a company may sometimes downplay serious concerns that are statistically probable in a given industry. “Hope for the best, plan for the worst” is a smart strategy in a business that wants to mitigate or […]

Steel Is Steel, Right? You are a new fabricator who has just purchased your first press brake. Attached to the side of your brake is an air-bending chart that tells you what tonnage over what size V-die opening you will need to bend various lengths and thicknesses of steel. The sales rep showed you a […]