by Ben Wiley | Apr 26, 2021 | Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators, OEM
We won an award recently. We’re rather proud of that and prouder still that we’ve won it more than once. It’s not in our nature to brag though. Despite being told that talking about it would be good for business we’d rather just get back to doing what we do: serving...
by Ben Wiley | Apr 19, 2021 | Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, Sheet Metal Fabrication
Offcuts and scrap are inevitable in metal fabrication. Handled right, (which means with gloves,) they’re worth money. Handle them the wrong way and we’d be throwing money away, and who likes doing that? So for anyone interested in controlling manufacturing costs,...
by Ed Wiley | Jan 19, 2021 | Future of Metal Fabrication, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators, Sheet Metal Fabrication
As 2020 disappears in the rearview mirror many of us are wondering what 2021 has in store. Well we don’t have a crystal ball or the gift of second sight but it’s fun to speculate. It’s also important for our business that we do it. By anticipating what customers will...
by Ben Wiley | Dec 18, 2019 | Future of Metal Fabrication, Industry 5.0, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Business, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics
Pinsetter. Telegraphist. Typist. Those jobs are gone, obsoleted by advances in technology. But where are the marauding hordes of unemployed pinsetters? Well there aren’t any. They all went on to something else. Maybe they’re now web designers or Instagram...
by David Duchesne | Dec 3, 2019 | Aluminum Extrusion, Extruded Section, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Business, Motorhome Manufacturers, RV
Aluminum is like that cool kid you knew in High School. It seems to do everything really well, and always looks good doing it. Sure, other kids were stronger, taller, maybe smarter even, but none offered quite the all-round package of mister, or miss, Cool. Of course,...
by Sarah Hayes | Oct 9, 2019 | continuous improvement, Family Business, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators
Our Quest to Improve On-Time Delivery to 95% Most of our blogs in Tiki Talk discuss subjects of general interest in manufacturing and frequently metal fabrication in particular. In recent posts, we’ve discussed the economy, technology, tariffs’ and a host...
