What Equipment Does Your Future Hold? Marco Gagnon With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the year that was and the years to come in equipment development. This past year saw our company bring out two new pieces of equipment in its product offering. These pieces were added to a line-up that already included our successful BCE-Gantry, BCE-Finish... Read More December 2024 Issue #16305 Page 66
Nailing Wall Panel Production with Panels Plus Panels Plus Team Imagine transforming your production process with reliable and innovative equipment. Dayspring Construction did just that, and we’re excited to share their success story with you. The Problem Dayspring Construction had a definite need to improve efficiency. The company was using a... Read More December 2024 Issue #16305 Page 73
How to Measure Your Design Team’s Strengths and Weaknesses Design teams are made up of people, and as we know, people can drive profits or create costly errors. When your design team is a mix of seasoned and newer individuals, and you add off-shore or subcontract service providers, understanding their individual skill levels becomes essential. Do you... Read More December 2024 Issue #16305 Page 96
A Case Study for Transforming Profits Through Employment Practices Todd Drummond The following is a summary of the seminar I gave at this year’s BCMC show on October 8th, 2024. If your mind is open, I am handing you pure gold to help your company meet the challenges negatively affecting everyone now and in the coming years. Case Study —Building Material Supply... Read More November 2024 Issue #16304 Page 26
An “A-Ha Moment” at BCMC 2024 Edmond Lim, P.Eng. As teased in last month’s article, “F1 Pit Stop Each Truss,” the Enventek Collated Plate Dispenser was unveiled at BCMC 2024 Milwaukee. To many truss fabricators, it was an “A-Ha moment” to see a machine in action that solved a truss fabrication bottleneck that many... Read More November 2024 Issue #16304 Page 52
Is Your Designer Pay Keeping Up with Inflation? JobLine periodically updates our compensation calculator, and while I expect some surprises, this time, I was truly taken aback. Recent candidates have reported significantly higher compensation at their previous employers than we’ve seen for job postings. I’ve attributed this to... Read More November 2024 Issue #16304 Page 100
How Service and Support Can Make a Difference Wendy Boyd When it comes to investing in machinery and equipment for your frame or truss production, a number of factors are normally part of the decision making – what efficiencies will this product provide, what pain points does it need to alleviate, how will it aid my growth or overall profits,... Read More October 2024 Issue #16303 Page 17
F1 Pit Stop Each Truss Edmond Lim, P.Eng. Performing an F1 pit stop for each truss is how to Feed the Beast! Truss builders know that assembling each truss on the truss tables is just like what an F1 pit stop crew does. Both F1 pit stop crews and truss assembly crews strive for efficiency, quality, safety, and teamwork, with a shared... Read More October 2024 Issue #16303 Page 44
Experience High Output Roof Truss Production with a Roller Plant Wendy Boyd Our robust Roller Plant streamlines the assembly of roof trusses – combining technology, precision, and efficiency to produce high quality trusses! Suitable for any roof truss factory, our Roller Plant is powerful, fast, accurate, and simple to operate with production numbers that will... Read More September 2024 Issue #16302 Page 17
Why Are So Many Companies Unknowingly Losing Millions? Todd Drummond Millions of dollars are being lost by many companies that don’t recognize they have a problem — Does your LBM company have more than $50 million combined sales? Quantified as a ratio of sales, according to Six Sigma case studies, the cost of poor quality, defined as waste,... Read More September 2024 Issue #16302 Page 26