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Quality Assurance continues beyond the truss plant, so it’s important to keep that in mind as you’re preparing your products for handling and use by someone else. For example, this article poses the question: should component manufacturers (CMs) mark the ends of trusses? For that...

When your team is set up right, performance takes care of itself. In manufacturing, it’s easy to assume better results come from pushing harder – longer shifts, tighter schedules, more pressure on the floor. But the highest performing plants know something different: real performance...

Whether you’re facing a Polar Vortex, a Snowmageddon, or just another pending storm, a wintry winter forecast can strike fear in anyone. But the good news is that a Lumber PickLine will make it even easier for you to cope with these tricky situations. [For all photos, See PDF or View...

A Word of Introduction from Ed Lim: Charlie Vaccaro liked to use last month’s cautionary tale, “A Fable for Our Time,” as a lead-in to a speech he gave many times when invited as a guest team building and motivational speaker at component manufacturer and lumber yard sales...

My March 2025 article, “Getting Up to Speed at Hundegger: The Future of Automation is Here,” outlined what I expected to be a pivotal year for Hundegger USA. In preparation for continued growth, we added two key team members: Sales Manager Carlos Lozano and Technical Sales Manager...

Most companies don’t have a performance problem. They have a flow problem. They have good people, decent equipment, and plenty of effort on the floor, but the numbers that matter most still refuse to move. Output stays flat, lead times stretch, overtime becomes the norm, customers feel...

At CT Darnell, we build solutions. Not only do we carry the leading line of storage systems and design and install metal buildings for the LBM industry, but we are also the industry’s leading general contractor. CT Darnell has designed and built solutions for more lumber and building...

Pretty much everyone in manufacturing has heard the Toyota example. It’s often held up as the gold standard for quality and continuous improvement, especially the andon cord, which allows any worker to stop the line when something does not seem right. The familiar takeaway is quality...

When I was notified we’d been selected by Construction Tech Review as the Cloud-Based Lumber Purchasing Platform of the Year 2026, I was very surprised, and I hadn’t even known we were nominated. But, as I thought about this news, I realized how grateful I am for the trust and...

As of January 2026, the component manufacturing sector has transitioned from a period of defensive preservation to one of disciplined modernization. With interest rates stabilizing after the Federal Reserve’s late-2025 cuts, equipment financing has evolved into a strategic lever for...