If you’ve ever walked through a busy metal fabrication shop on a Monday morning, you know the rhythm—grinders humming, welders sparking, everyone moving fast because deadlines don’t care that Friday’s shift ran late. A few months ago, I visited a metal shop where a senior welder, Mark, was mentoring a new apprentice through a run of thick structural brackets. Classic Monday. The kind where you’re chasing precision, speed, and consistency all at once. Mark laughed as he wiped

Every industry has its “bottleneck moments.” In welding, it’s the long lead times, the shortage of skilled hands, and the ever-rising...

It’s early morning in a fabrication shop in Ontario. The air smells faintly of steel and coolant, and the first arcs of the day light up...