fabricating | welding | stamping | tube & pipe | finishing AL ici oFF he t SHOW DAILY North AmericA’s LArgest metAL FormiNg, FAbricAtiNg, WeLdiNg ANd FiNishiNg eveNt OFFICIAL SHOW NEWS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014 Steelers Champion and U.S. Vet DON’T MISS TODAY! Rocky Bleier Shares Secrets of Success Keynote – Be The Best You Can Be Rocky Bleier, Super Bowl Champion, wo years in a U.S. Army that show how determination and and rehabilitation, he was back Vietnam War Veteran 8:30 a.m., Thomas Murphy Ballroom, uniform and 11 years fortitude have helped him realize on the Steelers roster as a running Bldg. B, Level 5 in Pittsburgh Steelers success after success, both personally back. Throughout the seventies T Big Data Integration for gear gave Rocky Bleier a unique and professionally. He also will be he helped propel the Steelers to Manufacturing outlook on life. And he’s used appearing at the FABTECH Industry four Super Bowl championships. 10:00 a.m., Hangout with Google, that perspective to his advantage, Night held at the College Football His time in professional football Bldg. B Lobby, 2nd Level motivating himself to continually Hall of Fame tonight at 5:30 p.m. and the military taught him the same make greater accomplishments. State of the Industry: The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted sorts of lessons, and they reinforced one Executive Outlook Bleier sees parallels between the Bleier in February 1968 and the another. Each stressed the importance 12:30 p.m., Room C101, Bldg. C, Level 1 challenges he faced in the past and U.S. Army did the same a year of teamwork and the sacrifices one has the challenges all business people and a half later. While in Vietnam, to make to accomplish the mission. FABTECH Industry Night face in today’s crowded, competitive Bleier sustained bullet and grenade And each emphasized individual 5:30 p.m., College Football Hall of Fame marketplace. Staying ahead of these wounds to his leg, basically ending responsibility and accountability; Additive Manufacturing/ challenges will be the subject of his a nascent football career according he felt at home in both. 3D Printing Resource Center talk this morning at 8:30 a.m. in the to his surgeon. Those were words But the military infused Bleier Hall A, Booth A2427 Thomas Murphy Ballroom. He will Bleier refused to accept and two years with some lessons that he couldn’t share personal stories and reflections later, after extensive physical therapy Manufacturing Talk Radio continued on page 25 Live Broadcast: 1:00 p.m., Hall B, Booth B5438 Changing How U.S. Employers AWS U.S. International Welcome to Welding Trials Hall A, Booth A3338 FABTECH 2014 Think About Vets n the past three years Joseph Spin To Win skilled U.S. veterans as employees. Hall A, Booth A3000 Barto and his consulting As FABTECH 2014 opened on Chance to Win Prizes firm, TMG, have trained I Veterans Day, it was only fitting 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. approximately 700 manufacturers that the subject of hiring veterans on the nuances of hiring U.S. came up throughout the day. Barto’s VISIT ALL 3 HALLS! veterans. Sometimes getting company shows employers how companies to change involves to find suitable U.S. veterans for a 2–3 hour conversation with a job openings. Employers fall into small machine shop. Sometimes several categories, Barto says, with the process involves going into a those with less than 50 employees 350-person company and mapping accounting for 40% of U.S. jobs. Hall C: Welding, Tube & Pipe, out its current hiring practices and He likens the hiring strategy his Thermal Spray measuring what does and doesn’t company advocates to recruiting key Hall B: Forming & Fabricating, Finishing, work. The end result, however, is athletes for a college sports team. METALFORM the same — make employers more “If a veteran represents a coveted Hall A: Forming & Fabricating, Finishing, open to, and proactive in, seeking METALFORM, Welding continued on page 26 Visit us in Hall B, #3147 for cutting and software demonstrations. PLASMA | LASER | WATERJET | AUTOMATION | SOFTWARE | CONSUMABLES 2 WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 12, 2014 THE OFFICIAL SHOW DAILY FABTECH® 2014 North America’s Largest Metal Forming, Fabricating, Welding, and Finishing Event FABTECH® 2014 THE OFFICIAL SHOW DAILY WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 12, 2014 3 Walmart Exec Seeks Partnerships To Bring Manufacturing Home almart sells toys sold only at walmart.com,” Marsiglio said. “We’re trying “There are lot more ways to work with Walmart made at the Enor to help suppliers do the math with our resources.” than people realize,” Marsiglio said. At the keynote Corporation’s factory presentation, an audience member asked what metal W Officials from 42 states attended a recent economic in Winnsboro, South Carolina. The products would be prime candidates for products sold summit in Denver hosted by Walmart. They participated global retailer also sells televisions at Walmart. “Everything is on the table,” she said. She in a “speed dating” exercise where manufacturers talked that are assembled at Element challenges her team to walk the aisles of a store and see with suppliers, Walmart representatives, and state Television’s nearby plant. In the what could be made or assembled in the United States. n officials to further explore partnership resources. past, the coincidence would have stopped there. Now, however, the two suppliers are talking about working together on manufacturing televisions for Walmart. The idea came from a Walmart initiative that aims to boost U.S. manufacturing. Walmart has pledged to spend $250 billion on U.S. made goods over the next 10 years. Already in its second year, the initiative isn’t just about Walmart buying shelf- ready products. It’s about building partnerships among its suppliers. “We make [manufacture] nothing,” said Cindi Marsiglio, Walmart’s vice president of U.S. manufacturing (pictured below) at yesterday’s keynote. “But we are finding a lot of success with facilitating connections.” Those connections, like the one above, could be an essential element of ramping up manufacturing here in the United States. Marsiglio said that Walmart can use its purchasing power and influence to assist U.S. manufacturers and suppliers to work together to find solutions. For example, she said it was too cost prohibitive for Element Television to manufacture all of its parts in the U.S. right now. But assembly costs here are competitive with other countries, so it makes sense to bring that component here. Another daunting prospect for manufacturers is the scalability issue, since Walmart has more than 11,000 retail locations, 5,000 of them in the U.S., and ramping up domestic production can be costly and take time. “Some products are starting in limited stores, or are fabricating | welding | stamping | tube & pipe | finishing 4 WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 12, 2014 THE OFFICIAL SHOW DAILY FABTECH® 2014 All Aboard for FABTECH ….Again n 2006 Metcam, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based precision involves quick setup will be a major focus as well.” In 2010, Ward said, managers metal fabricator, sent about a dozen executives to He added that the fabricator’s bonus program is wanted to bring the staff to the show I FABTECH. Four years later managers made a bold based on overall throughput metrics, and employees simply because most had never been move: On the second day of the 2010 Atlanta show, two will be looking on the show floor for solutions that to FABTECH before. They wanted buses arrived at the doors of the Georgia World Congress will shorten their overall manufacturing time. to give as many people as possible a Center. They carried well more than 100 employees, “We encourage people not to work harder, but to work chance to see the metal fabrication from entry level workers to top-level managers. smarter. The bonus program encourages employees to industry’s latest and greatest. This year Metcam is doing it again. Like four figure out how to do it faster,” Ward said. “They know As it turned out, though, years ago, the company expects at least two busloads that if they can make the parts faster, they can make employees came back from the show of employees will make the 25-mile trek to the more money, because it contributes to the bottom line.” with a lot of new ideas, particularly convention center. The company expects at least 110 Much has happened at Metcam over the past four for the shop’s assembly department. to attend, though they’re anticipating even more. years. In 2011 the company rearranged much of its The fabricator now has numerous Managers will give each employee $20 for lunch equipment into multiprocess cells, each with a cutting automatic shrink-wrap machines, and as they get off the bus, and employees will split up machine (punch or laser), press brakes, hardware not all of them are in the packaging by department: The welding department will walk insertion machines, and ancillary equipment. This effort, area. “We put a lot of them in the the welding hall, the powder coating department among others, led to some dramatic improvements. For work centers,” Ward said, “where they will cover the finishing pavilion, and so on. instance, overall manufacturing time for one repeatedly need to shrink-wrap material before ordered subassembly used to take weeks; it now takes the components move on to the next “Material handling will be a major focus for us,” less than 72 hours. On Monday morning, it’s raw stock, said Jerry Ward, Metcam’s vice president. “Every time work center, to prevent damage.” and by Wednesday evening it’s being loaded onto a you pick up a part, it costs you money.