Wiley Tiki Talk
Welcome one and all to Tiki Talk!
First of all, what’s with the name right? Well, Tiki Talk comes from our fun project where we used scrap metal to build our unique Tiki Bar. At our scrap metal Tiki Bar we’ve shared a few cold ones and exchanged some pretty good (and also some pretty bad) ideas. We figured it would be a great name for our virtual gathering place.
Tiki Talk is our blog, but more importantly we want it to be a place where we can address your questions, share your comments and let you know what is going on with our company. We want everyone to take part…customers, potential customers, experts and novices alike. We hope it will be a fun and friendly exchange.
Look, if we could hang and have a couple of beers and play a round of golf with everyone, we would do that. Believe me we would do that. For now, Tiki Talk is the place. Pull up a stool and join in.
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Welding in High School Gives Students a Look at Fabrication Careers
Wiley Metal Manufacturing has called Marion, Indiana, home of our metal fabrication business for over 35-years. Marion is a community of about 30,000 - and many Hoosiers have held fabrication careers at our local business. Located in the North Central part of the...
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How Additive Manufacturing is Being Used in Sheet Metal Fabrication
General Motors got a lot of attention recently when they unveiled a 3D-printed seat bracket. With its weirdly organic shapes it looked like something that might have been grown rather than made, but it was in fact produced from stainless steel. GM noted that this one...
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Effective Cobot Implementation Using 4 Principles of Lean Robotics
Walk through our shop, (or take the Wiley Metal drone fly-by,) and you'll see we're a high variety, low volume operation. Yes, we take on longer runs but we're not the kind of high-volume business that uses a lot of automation. It just doesn't yield sufficient "Return...
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How a Good Attitude Can Advance Your Welding Career
There is an attribute that you don't have to pay to learn to build a successful welding career. It reaches beyond skill and even talent. In most cases, it is more valuable than knowledge and even experience. If you want to build a successful welding career it starts...
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Employees Supports Frances Slocum with Backpack Program.
Wiley Metal Fabricating, Inc. (WMF) continued their ongoing community support on Friday, February 1, 2019, by donating 88 backpacks full of food for the students of Frances Slocum Elementary School. The Backpack Program is a national program combating childhood hunger...
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8 Ways Smart Manufacturing Helps Sustain Operational Improvement and Business Growth
Smart manufacturing has been described in various ways ranging from the overly-simplified to the complex. It is part of an evolving way in which manufacturers respond to current market and technological conditions with a goal of maximizing profitability. In that...
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Why Metal Fabricators Remain Cautiously Optimistic for 2019 Forecast
There was a time when many manufacturers and metal fabricators viewed the future as either “bullish” or “bearish”. We all like to think we are positive by nature, but after the harsh economic lessons of a decade ago, more of us who have been traditionally positive...
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Manufacturing Industry Trends for 2019
This is the time of year to look back and prepare for the future. There is value in reviewing the successes and mistakes of the past year and in looking at where opportunities may lie in the future. This has been a good year in metal fabrication and manufacturing and...
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Welding vs. Metal Fabrication
If you know anything about welding the title above might have you scratching your head. There's no choice to be made between the two, it's not an either-or. Welding is part of fabrication, just as grilling is part of cooking. Sure, you can cook without grilling but if...
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Is a Fabrication, Manufacturing and Production Welding Career for You?
Welding has played a significant role in man's ability to create and build since the Bronze Age. Today, it remains a critical aspect of metal fabrication and manufacturing. A career in welding is part art and part science and is a rewarding vocation both financially...
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Hot Cracks vs. Stress Cracks in Aluminum Welding
Aluminum is not easy to weld, but it can be done if you know what you're doing. At Wiley we know a few things about welding, so if you don't mind we're going to show off a little. Understand the Problem Welds made in aluminum experience two types of cracking. These...
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Business Process Management for an Evolving Manufacturing Marketplace
In this third post in our series of articles discussing the benefits of creating a culture of process management and root cause analysis, we are going to focus more on the topic of Business Process Management (BPM) and Manufacturing Process Management (MPM). As the...
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