Careers in Metal Fabrication Industry

Have you ever dreamt of working abroad but don’t know what kind of work to do? If you are interested in working manual labor, you might want to consider metal fabrication. Manual labored jobs are getting in demand nowadays because manual laborers in developed countries are ageing and the current generation of the labor force are slowly inclining to white collar jobs which requires less effort physically.

Like metal fabrication, jobs in the automotive industries are also in demand abroad but today, we will be focusing on jobs under metal fabrication.

Welder

Welders are manual laborers who are tasked of joining pieces of metals together by melting it with a welding rod. This is a highly hazardous job that requires PPEs that protects mainly the eyes. Does it take years to learn the skill? Here in the Philippines, it will only take you 6 months to learn the skill. There are various agencies that offer trainings about welding like TESDA.

Machine Operator

Machine operators are those who work in a computer controlled machines to ensure fast paced production and quality of the products made. Machines usually used in metal fabrication factories are usually machines for cutting, bending and assembling. Upon searching jobs related to metal fabrication, I saw job post that requires machine operators of metal press machines.

Maintenance Engineer

As a maintenance engineer, your job is to keep machines inside the factory in excellent working condition. In this job, you need to be a graduate of BS Mechanical Engineer.

Quality Control Inspector

As QA inspector your job will be ensuring that the products are in par with the company’s standard of quality. Your job is also to prevent reject products to save the company’s resources.

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Important Tools in Sheet Metal Fabrication

 

As we all know, sheet metal fabrication is a process used to create something out of raw sheets of metal. It is done by cutting, bending and then joining the pieces together. So now, I’d like to share to you an interesting video on youtube that can give you an idea of how it’s done and how it can help you on your project.

At the start of the video, simple processes of sheet metal fabrication were introduced as he used the following:

 

Small Anvil

 Is a smaller version of anvil that is used to flatten small pieces of metal. According to the Wikipedia, long time ago, before the birth of welding anvil was the main tool used in metal fabrication. And because this is used to flatten metals, blacksmiths used this to forge metals.

 

How to Use it:

 Simply put the piece of metal on the flat surface of the anvil and pound it continuously with the use of the soft hammer.

 

Hole Puncher

 It comprises of two thick metal discs with holes of different sizes. To create holes, metal rods that fit the holes were used.

 

How to Use it:

Loosen the screw that holds the two discs. Match the two holes with same sizes accordingly and put the sheet of metal in between of the discs. Place the sharp side of the metal stick on the hole and pound it with a brass hammer.

 

Doming Tool

 This tool is used to create a dome out of the circle that was punched from your sheet of metal.

 

How to Use it:

 Put the circular piece of metal on the dome which fits it, use a dome tipped metal stick that is similar in size with the dome. Pound it with a hammer.

 

Ball pin hammer

 Is a kind of hammer which creates a dimmple ripple effect on the surface of metal.

 

Raw hide hammer

 A wood hammer used for pound light materials.

 

Brass hammer

 An extremely heavy hammer used for heavy pounding.

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