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During what months of the year does your company experience predictable downtime?
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This year, SBC Magazine sent writers to many of the education sessions, asked them to interview the presenters, and then give everyone a healthy taste of what they would have learned had they attended those sessions themselves.
The articles in this issue summarize and expand upon the topics covered in this year’s most popular sessions.
SBCA’s 2015 award winners never envisioned how successful they would be in this industry.
and ensure prolonged success through more diverse product offerings.
It’s one thing to have a salesperson from an MSR producer tell you the advantages of using MSR lumber in your production process. It’s an entirely different thing—and much more persuasive—to have four veteran component manufacturers (CMs) give you the reasons they’re convinced it’s better than visually graded lumber.
Few issues have demanded the attention of the SBCA Board of Directors more over the past five years than the variability of lumber design values. SBCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel provided guidance to component manufacturers (CMs) on ways to mitigate the potential risk and liability that have arisen in the market as a result of how the lumber industry has chosen to deal with the issue of variable design properties.
Talking about manufacturing automation often leads to discussions about new equipment, software or other technology. But Buddy Raney of Raney Construction and Dana Rector of Universal Forest Products are quick to point out that what’s critical is workflow planning and people.
Challenge yourself and your team to look for opportunities for improvement this winter so you can weather many winters to come.