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Comment on Welding your way to a six-figure income? by Frank

Frank — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:31:32 +0000

I'm a aerospace qualified welder G6 stainless. I also have aws D1.1 D1.2 17.1 asme section ix f-2,f3and f4. In Gtaw gmaw-s gmaw-p and smaw. structural, boiler and pressure vessel. I work for a as9100 qualifide machine shop and i'm 22,000 short of makeing 60,000 a year. I guess I work in the wrong state.

Comment on Educating tomorrow's welders by Ron Robinson

Ron Robinson — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:17:41 +0000

If someone can help me find a welding class, in or near Wash.DC 20020 so I can become a certified welder. Thanks advance Ron

Comment on Unemployment benefits or a factory job? by Rickie S.

Rickie S. — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:40:19 +0000

$8.50 for the first 90 days? Why????
You have evidently set your normal labor rate at $10.00/hr+., assuming the 60 current employees you have are past 90 days.
Start new hires at $10.00/hrs and you could get better cadidates and have better retention. You can still weed out the poor performers in 90 days (or less).
So, for a whopping $1.50/per hr. for 90 days (assume 40 hrs/week for 12 weeks) you are limiting your possible employee pool to desperate people who will accept a welfare rate job. All for a 12 week savings of $720.00 in wages?
No wonder you have a problem getting good people. You can have more control of your situation than you imagine by taking a close look at your current practices.
If you are running on a margin so thin that the $720 over 12 weeks bankrupts the company, you my friend are in bigger trouble.

Comment on How long has this been going on? by David

David — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:32:56 +0000

Hi all,
My college lecturers in 1982 said welders are in short supply and will be in demand due to shortages.
Not happened yet but I am still waiting.
Ps welding has been really good to me though!

Comment on Producing more versus hiring more by BTD

BTD — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:54:07 +0000

Such a complicated issue currently facing manufacturers and their workforce. Hopefully many people see the possibilities you mentioned and continue to encourage manufacturing in the US to grow.

Comment on The journey is the destination by philip biechler

philip biechler — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:18:45 +0000

Dear Amanda , I read your artivles about metal artist in the fabrictors magazine and would like to share some sculpture works I have done. Ihave worked with some important artist like joe moss, ike hay and harry bertoia If you email me I could sent some attachment showing my sculpture work thanks Phil biechler

Comment on The moral imperative of U.S. manufacturing by S Dunn

S Dunn — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:30:43 +0000

So what you aren't saying is that along with the other arrogant flaws that APPLE has, they are not very good at planning, therefore the need to be able to push around suppliers for immediate changes? An American supplier, especially one not stupid enough to put all of their eggs in one basket will say; we will be glad to make a change for you, please document the change appropriate to our existing contract, we will give you the cost and make the change, however, you still need to pay for the 10,000 you required me to be able to deliver in one day. In other words Steve Jobs couldn't play the bully here as easily as there.

Comment on Producing more versus hiring more by Producing more, hiring less

Producing more, hiring less — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:58:01 +0000

[...] his blog “Producing more versus hiring more,” my colleague Tim Heston cited a one-two combination: New equipment and better strategies. [...]

Comment on The moral imperative of U.S. manufacturing by Fabricators on rebuilding manufacturing's infrastructure

Fabricators on rebuilding manufacturing's infrastructure — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:42:09 +0000

[...] April 18th, 2012 It all started with a blog post by The FABRICATOR®'s Senior Editor Tim Heston: The moral imperative of U.S. manufacturing. The post discussed the manufacturing supply chain and how the U.S. must rebuild its infrastructure [...]

Comment on 'Manufacturing is wealth creation' by Joe Szuba

Joe Szuba — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:38:55 +0000

I wrote a paper, in my Masters program, about the Henry Ford Trade School. I worked at Ford then and had permission to use the Edison Institute, Ford Motor records, to see what happened to the kids that went thru this program. It was amazing where these students, of the Trade School, ended up. To be brief only about 33% ended up in the trades they started in, many went on to be engineers, doctors, lawyers, Senators etc. Also, I started at Ford Motor, as a Tool & Die apprentice, in the Rouge and 28 years later, after several management positions ended my career as a Group Leader as the Ford Science and Research Lab. There is a company in Ohio, Grob, that has a European type apprentice program and there are so many applicats that they are tested to get in. If you are interested in my Masters Thesis I can mail it ot you.