Tim Heston

vadishzainer / iStock / Getty Images Plus La mezcla de clientes define al fabricante de metal a la medida y por contrato. Un taller podría tener un conjunto de trabajos de bajo volumen y de prototipos, parte del cual podría convertirse en órdenes de producción. De esta manera, la especialidad de un fabricante evoluciona, idealmente con un portafolio diversificado de trabajos que le ayudan a escalar de manera sostenible.

It’s time to gear up for North America’s main metal fabrication event. This year, FABTECH comes at a time of unprecedented investment. lersan8910/iStock/Getty Images Plus In October, Las Vegas will host FABTECH, metal fabrication’s main event in North America. The show kicks off as the economic spotlight shines on manufacturing. Investment continues to grow, as does the seemingly insatiable demand for fabricated metal within certain hot sectors.

Rex Alexandre remembers the day in 2020 when his first handheld fiber laser welding machine showed up at SpaceX, courtesy of Elon Musk. “Elon saw this neat Chinese handheld laser welding system on Twitter late one night, before he bought Twitter. He went on Amazon, bought one, and drop-shipped it to me. When it showed up, I thought it was the worst idea I’d ever heard. For my entire career, the Class 4 laser has been inside a box or on a robot in a CNC machine.