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This program helps manufacturers monitor the quality of the wall panels they manufacture and provides the plant with a data management system.
Key changes are taking place within the truss and wall panel manufacturing community.
The largest hurdle to hosting a plant tour is having enough time. That's why we continue to create tools like those below to make it as easy as possible to host a tour.
The primary motivation to hosting a plant tour is to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with a supplier, potential customer, a city official, and many others in your community.
One of the most effective ways to develop a reliable customer base is to help builders and general contractors understand the benefits your products provide over the alternative. Bringing them into your plant gives them the opportunity to see your high quality products carefully built in a controlled environment, cementing in their mind why they should choose you over stick framing or another manufacturer.
Relationships with building officials in your community can pay significant dividends if officials understand how trusses are designed, built, and installed, they can more easily provide feedback to the builder in the field on proper installation of your products. They are also tasked with determining the building code, and enforcing it, so developing a good relationship can help ensure the building code remains friendly to structural building components.
Architects, engineers and specifiers play an important role in deciding how buildings are built. The more that Component Manufacturers can educate these building professional on the structural and design advantages components provide to a structure opens many opportunities, particularly for market share growth.
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Benefits of building a relationship with Fire officials allows you to provide comprehensive information on the true fire performance of metal connected wood products. Since the invention of structural components there have been misperceptions and misinformation spread widely about what happens to components during a fire event. As a consequence, many times the fire service and component manufacturing industry have been at odds, but it doesn’t have to be so.
Having a close relationship with framers is crucial given that they are responsible for installing your product. The importance can never be overstated, the more they understand how your products are designed and manufactured, and why it’s important to handle and brace your products properly, can go a long way towards ensuring continued market share growth.
Elected officials are well connected individuals in your community and can prove to be an invaluable resource. They have the ability to directly influence laws that may impact the use of your product, or they can provide a communications channel for seeking recourse in the event your company is penalized or has difficulty securing permitting.
Component manufacturers continue to struggle finding an abundant source of potential employees. It’s never too early to introduce aspiring minds to new career opportunities while fostering a relationship with a local instructors who may be your companies’ most valuable recruiter.
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SBCA has published extensive information regarding raw material performance characteristics, since 2009, when SBCRI first learned of the disparities between OSB and lumber published design values and SBCRI tested performance. We published a 2015 article entitled “ Why is SBCA & SBCRI Publishing Investigative Reports? ”