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MetalForming
October 2017 | Volume 51 — Number 10 Cover Story
Features
86 Job-Shop- Management Software Can
Pay Off Big Time
The one constant for a job-shop fabricator is change. The right software can track, analyze and manage that change successfully, delivering dividends to the bottom line.
Commentaries
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
FABTECH Arrives as Capex Trends Upward
22 FABTECH
Mark your calendar and make plans to be in Chicago November 6-9 for FABTECH 2017.
28 Focus on Education... PMA Presents Expanded Metalforming Program
34 Exhibitors in the METALFORM
Technology Area 42 Previews
Features
70 Difficult Welds?
Automated Welding
May Have an Answer
Advancements in sensoring have enabled robotic-welding systems to handle joining challenges previously considered beyond the scope of automation. Improvements in seam tracking, for example, are shifting the paradigm.
74 Plasma-Cutting Upgrade
a Boon for Boom-
Attachment Maker
Oklahoma fabricator benefits from excellent cutting and marking, precise holes and much more.
82 For Error-Proof Manufacturing,
There’s IIoT
The Industrial Internet of Things can save manufacturers from costly mistakes by making the right connections on the
shop floor.
Brad F. Kuvin
The Science of Forming
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Gaining More Data During Forming
Stuart Keeler
Tooling by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deep Drawing Box Shells
Peter Ulintz
Departments
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News Fronts
Tech Update
Software for Manufacturing . . . . . . . Spotlight on PMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ad Index
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