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Anna Stamm

Advertiser Forum: Leaping Into the New Year

Anna Stamm

Are you ready for the Leap Year? That’s right, 2024 will bring us one extra day! Instead of 24/7/365, it will be 24/7/366. Have you considered what you will do with your extra day? Imagining a Free Day Granted, our ordinary lives will not be suspended so that we can claim February 29...

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January 2024
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Joe Kannapell

Floor Truss Technology, Part VIII: Inside Floor Truss Details

Joe Kannapell

Builders have been testing the viability of floor trusses, and they are now considering the results. Many of them switched from I-joists only because they were forced to do so. Either they couldn’t get them, or they didn’t want to pay double the price. Yet today, as they are seeing...

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January 2024
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Wendy Boyd

Welcoming a New Year of Partnerships with Spida

Wendy Boyd

As I sit here thinking about what the New Year will bring for Spida Machinery, I send our warmest gratitude to those customers who became our machinery partners in 2023. I can now bid farewell the challenges of the past 12 months and welcome the promise of a fresh start and new opportunities in...

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January 2024
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Todd Drummond

Mistake-Proof Your Process with Must-Have Communication Features

Todd Drummond

Last month’s article, Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) for Enhancing Performance to Ensure ROI Retention, is a natural lead-in to Poka-Yoke. In lean terminology, roughly translated from Japanese, Poka-Yoke means to mistake-proof the process. A more accurate translation could be...

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January 2024
Issue #16294
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Glenn Traylor

How Should We Select a 3rd Party Quality Assurance Program?

Glenn Traylor

As a new year begins, now is the time to ask: do I need a 3rd party auditor? If you don’t have one, then you need to take a hard look at your business. As companies in other industries have learned too, using a third party to conduct all audits throughout an organization (or supplementing...

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January 2024
Issue #16294
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Edmond Lim, P.Eng.

Inspiration to Feed The Beast! in 2024

Edmond Lim, P.Eng.

As we all plan for a productive and profitable 2024, I would like to celebrate three 2023 Feed The Beast success stories: a multi-million-dollar plant expansion, a complete saw shop makeover, and a plant renovation. All three of these projects implemented some or all of Enventek’s...

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January 2024
Issue #16294
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Tim Grahn

Implementing Continuous Improvements at Panels Plus

Tim Grahn

It’s hard to believe that it is already the New Year, but we had another successful year at Panels Plus in 2023. Despite some ups and downs in the housing market and all the buzz around high interest rates, we had our busiest year on record. The incredible value that our wall panel and...

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January 2024
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Carl Villella

What You Can Expect in 2024

Carl Villella

According to the research team at Goldman Sachs, we can expect healthy growth in 2024, with the economy growing by 2.1%. Most of the problems that would lead to higher inflation, such as an overheated labor market, are gone. And as a result, the probability of a recession in 2024 is much...

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January 2024
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Valerie Hansen

Creating Your Own Commodity Market Performance Measures

Valerie Hansen

If you haven’t considered BuyMetrics yet, I have one more reason for you to check it out in 2024 – our new Commodity Analysis and Visualization Module. This new module will give BuyMetrics’ clients the power to control their own market analysis and measure their own...

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January 2024
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Thom McAnally

Navigating Productivity Improvement Programs: The Vital Role of a Change Agent

In manufacturing, continuous process improvement is critical to maintaining profits and quality. Transforming and enhancing operations, however, demands more than good intentions; it requires a dedicated change agent focused on ensuring the program is implemented and ingrained into ongoing plant...

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January 2024
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