The Industrial CapitalistVol. I · No. 1Established MMXXVIPittsburgh, Pa.
The Journal of American Industry
The Record of the New Industrial Age.
The Archive
Manufacturing
Shops, plants, and the people who make things.
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What is a job shop?
A job shop makes parts to order, one job at a time, rather than running a product line. What that means for how it quotes, schedules, and grows, and why so many machining and fabrication businesses…
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Fabrication shop and machine shop: the difference
Both make metal parts to order, but a fabrication shop cuts, forms, and welds plate and structural steel while a machine shop removes metal to tight tolerances. What each does and where they overlap.