The PL0 Fabrication Index
The fabrication industry has spent years being sloppily lumped as a subset of manufacturing. Manufacturing is the process of taking raw goods and making a finished product. Fabrication performs roughly…
The fabrication industry has spent years being sloppily lumped as a subset of manufacturing. Manufacturing is the process of taking raw goods and making a finished product. Fabrication performs roughly…
PL0: It’s a pleasure to have you on the PL0 blog, Dr. Attinger. First, a bit about yourself. We understand that you are transitioning out of academia and into consulting….
PL0: Congrats on your recent announcement that you are starting Ascension Consulting. Talk to us about your digitalization experience. Thank you, it’s been an exciting journey launching a new company…
The phone rang and it was Brian. Brian, one of my best friends, had flunked Dynamics & Controls for the third time. As an engineer, tethering on the edge of…
Spot welding, also known as resistance spot welding, is a specialized process in metal fabrication. Unlike more commonly used forms of welding, spot welding does not use a filler metal….
The jam nut provides a quick and easy way to secure a subject nut in place or to secure a load. In this article, you’ll learn about its function and…
The bills of material, or BOMs, for products or assemblies, allow engineering to design and guide the manufacturing of individual material, parts, or assemblies. A bill of material specifies the…
Fracture toughness is a physical property of matter. It describes the resistance of the material to fracture while it has cracks. It is different than simple toughness which is defined…
Pallet jacks – sometimes referred to as pallet trucks – are some of the most useful material handling equipment known today. They are used on loading docks to move incoming…
The material property known as emissivity describes a material’s propensity to radiate energy. Emissivity measurements, sometimes referred to as an e-value, range from 0 to 1. A measurement of 0…