Does your tube travel more than you do?

摘要

The level of technology used these days in the tube and pipe fabrication industry vanes quite a bit in terms of age. Some of it is a bit antiquated, to put it kindly. Many tube fabrication shops use equipment that is more than 50 years old. Should you focus on new processes and procedures? Taking a look at newer equipment and newer philosophies could be worth your time and effort. If you don't, you could be missing out on many new opportunities. Here's a starting point. Over the past 15 to 20 years, the most widely accepted philosophy in the industry is that tube fabricating equipment operators should hurry through one operation at a time. Companies move a single tube all over the manufacturing floor to complete six different operations. Along the way one operator picks up the tube, completes his one little operation, and puts it back in the bin for the next person. Then a forklift driver comes along and moves the bin to the next station.