A solid handshake and a pleasant smile is the welcome you receive when meeting the father and son team who manage Rian Solutions in Brantford, Ontario. A young custom machine shop, it was the son, Brian Vaandering who launched Rian Solutions in June 2011 with his father Henry’s support and...

There is no escaping it— solidly clamping parts that you need to weld will ensure that these parts will not move unintentionally and be properly welded. Having pieces of metal move while heat is being applied is a recipe for disaster. Proper hold down of parts to be welded means they can be...

One of the biggest things Neil Desrosiers hears when he lectures on machine monitoring and MTConnect is that “monitoring isn’t new, don’t sell monitoring as being new because it’s been around for 30 years now.” Although this is true, Desrosiers, who is the application...

While new technologies are regularly introduced in order to speed up manufacturing processes, making them simpler and more productive, punching remains the most efficient and least expensive method for putting holes into sheet metal. But making simple holes in sheet metal parts is only one of the...

New technology enables automotive manufacturers to produce high-tolerance parts efficiently.

Visual work system provides shop workers with step-by-step instructions.

The line-up of luxury cars, including BMWs, Mercedes, Lexus, Cadillacs, Range Rovers and Hummers—regular and stretch versions—are what you’d expect to see along a red carpet in Beverly Hills, not inside an industrial space in North Toronto. But it’s in this space, where...

Industry experts offer new tools, techniques and strong opinions about industrial molds. According to these pundits, automation is hot while 3D printing is not—at least for the time being. If 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) is used at all in the mold world, it’s to...

Special press brake tooling can be overlooked when companies seek to increase productivity and efficiency to maximize profitability.

If you want an example of the optimism that permeates the tool, die and mold-making sector, a good place to start would be Aalbers Tool & Mold, in Oldcastle, Ontario. Founded in 1982, Aalbers is based in Southern Ontario, minutes from Windsor, Canada’s automotive manufacturing epicenter...

Over four days in early November 2014, Montreal-based Tripar Inc. opened its doors to customers and suppliers to celebrate the metal stamping company’s 65th anniversary. This event was made doubly special when 91-year-old Ben Sevack, the company’s founder and chairman, made an...

The CWA Foundation has two goals: to increase welding safety awareness so those entering the profession learn and work in safe environments and to create a flow of future, qualified tradespeople to step into the positions left open by retiring welders.

Survey: Seventy percent of manufacturing executives said they would at least double their R&D investment over the next two years.