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Lack of GD&T Knowledge Can Impact Your Bidding Process

By Mark Reichle / Engineering Drawings, Manufacturing Fundamentals / GD&T

Read the first part of our GD&T Blog “3 Factors that Affect Understanding“. As a complex standard, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing can lead to reading and interpreting errors. Users who do not have the prerequisite …

Lack of GD&T Knowledge Can Impact Your Bidding Process Read More »

Complex datum reference frames on an engineering drawing, example of gd&t information that is key to the bidding process.

Is your issue a skills gap or a knowledge gap?

By Mark Reichle / Training / Development, Improvement, Skills Gap

You may have received a call to action to address the skills gap, which might feel making a bridge across the Grand Canyon with a few sticks and some string. The overarching term, “skills gap,” …

Is your issue a skills gap or a knowledge gap? Read More »

Strategies to prevent skills and knowledge gaps for manufacturing employees.

GD&T: 3 Factors that Affect Understanding

By Mark Reichle / Engineering Drawings, Manufacturing Fundamentals / GD&T

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing is a complicated and complex standard that can lead to reading and interpreting errors. On drawings, GD&T is used as a point of reference in order to easily and effectively manufacture …

GD&T: 3 Factors that Affect Understanding Read More »

Render of a datum reference frame fully constraining a part in all degrees of freedom, gd&t concepts.

Green Sand: A Classic Casting Recipe

By Mark Reichle / Castings, Manufacturing Processes / Green Sand

Casting Chronicles The history of humanity is defined by man’s relationship with the material world. Man’s ability to make tools from metals has changed our historical trajectory. A copper frog from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) dating …

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Casting in green sand molds is a timeless technology.

Aluminum: Driving the Decade

By Mark Reichle / Aluminum, Materials / Automotive, Casting

The first two decades of this century witnessed the dramatic fall and rise of the automotive industry. We cruise into the new decade with technological advances defined by fuel-efficient and autonomous vehicles. Emission regulations and …

Aluminum: Driving the Decade Read More »

Advantages of using aluminum in automotive manufacturing include durability, lighter weight, high strength, and infinite recyclability.

THORS Effectiveness Survey Results

By Mark Reichle / Customer Success Stories / #elearning, #thinkthors

In 2019, a US-based turbine company identified that they had a skills gap developing within their organization. They recognized the need for organized training and decided to make training an area of focus for 2019. …

THORS Effectiveness Survey Results Read More »

THORS effectiveness surveys help THORS build the knowledge ecosystem for manufacturers everywhere.

5 Reasons Why a Culture of Learning can Lead to Success

By Anshika Srivastava / Training

Learning is continuous. After all, there are always new skills to learn and techniques to adopt. A culture of learning in an organization can also improve business performance, increase profit, and boost the morale of …

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A culture of learning can improve business performance, increase profit, and boost the morale of a workforce.

Beyond Symbols: Fluency in GD&T Decreases Cost

By Kaitlin Trushel / Engineering Drawings / GD&T

Due to the complex nature of the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) standard, a company’s bottom line profitability can be affected as a result of reading and interpreting errors. Users who have a lack of knowledge concerning the …

Beyond Symbols: Fluency in GD&T Decreases Cost Read More »

Example gd&t information, projected tolerance zone information on an engineering drawing.

A Beginner’s Guide to Forging Fundamentals

By Anshika Srivastava / Manufacturing Processes, Metal Forming

The process of forging produces some of the strongest manufactured components as compared to other metal manufacturing process, making it so important in the metal manufacturing industry.  Forging does not change the grain structure of …

A Beginner’s Guide to Forging Fundamentals Read More »

A heated billet as seen in a forging process.

4 Safety practices for a safe welding environment

By Anshika Srivastava / Industrial Safety

In any welding environment, safety is critical. If safety practices are ignored, people working may face an array of hazards which can be potentially dangerous and lead to electric shocks, poisonous fumes and gases, fire and explosions, …

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In any welding environment, safety is critical to prevent hazards such as electric shocks.
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