First Metal & Supply

01/22/2022

First Metals is excited to announce supporting future woman entrepreneurs. We are sponsoring Scarlett a Girl scout to help her sell cookies and meet her goal of being a great girl scout and learning to run a business.

Please order here:

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That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

09/29/2021

Why metal fabricators should share their manufacturing success stories

If metal fabricators want an intelligent and engaged workforce, they need to promote the industry to the manufacturing world.

09/23/2021

How to prevent manufacturing employees from quitting

Why do employees quit theirs jobs a metal fabrication shop? They might have found a job that pays more, or they might not get along with their boss. Quite often, it’s both.

09/16/2021

Sheet metal fastening, no nuts required

Weld nuts might have a low price, but their indirect costs can be significant, especially with 2021’s supply chain challenges.

09/09/2021

❤ Beauty

08/31/2021

How behavior can sustain (or stop) continuous improvement in lean manufacturing

Many companies focus on the hard side of improvement—the 5S, the standard work, the workcells—but ignore the soft side, including the behaviors that drive people to improve.

08/27/2021

08/25/2021

How manufacturing facility managers can perfect the performance appraisal?

Many managers at metal fabrication and other manufacturing shops share the same mindset about performance reviews: “I just don’t have the time.” In an era of perennial skilled labor shortages, thinking this way is a costly mistake.