by Ben Wiley | Aug 27, 2025 | Metal Fabrication, Weld, Welding
In the world of stainless steel fabrication, color isn’t just about how a weld looks—it’s often a direct indicator of quality. While rainbow-like welds may be considered visually appealing in artistic or automotive contexts, they can signal serious metallurgical...
by Ed Wiley | Jun 18, 2025 | Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabrication Business, Metal Fabricators, Weld, Welding
Choosing the right metal fabrication partner is about more than just price or turnaround time. It’s about ensuring that the welds, materials, and processes behind your parts are strong, consistent, and designed for real-world performance. Welding is often one of the...
by Ed Wiley | Apr 23, 2024 | Metal Fabrication, Weld, Welding
While it’s hard to judge the quality of a weld just by looking at it, appearance provides some clues as to the overall skill of the person who made it. This blog explores what to look for in a weld bead, so the reader can get a feeling for how well it was made. The...
by Ben Wiley | Mar 27, 2023 | 3D printing, Family Business, Future of Metal Fabrication, Laser Cutting, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Business, Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabrication Business, Metal Fabricators, Robotics, Weld, Welding
Welding is an integral part of metal fabrication. At Wiley, we do a lot of it, and if we do say so ourselves, we do it well. Most of our welding is carried out by highly trained and very experienced human welders, but we also have a number of robotic welding cells “on...
by Ben Wiley | Jul 24, 2020 | Continuous Weld, Weld, Welding
There’s a kind of magic about welding. Drop the visor, strike an arc, and seconds later what was a pile of metal parts emerges from the blinding white heat as something useful. Yes, as metal fabricators we shear, bend, saw, grind, punch, notch and polish, but welding...
by Ben Wiley | Mar 24, 2019 | Metal Fabrication, Metal Fabrication Business, Metal Fabricators, Weld
Despite our superhuman feats of fabrication, we’re all mortals here at Wiley, and we’ve been shivering through what feels like a long winter. That got us wondering though, we know Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is somewhere in the Arctic: how does he...
