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General, Maintenance

October 8, 2025

Maintenance Moneyball: 5 Steps to Turn Strategy into Reliability Success

In 2002, the Oakland Athletics made baseball history-not by winning the World Series, but by proving that strategy could outperform budget. With one of the lowest payrolls in Major League Baseball, General Manager Billy...

General, Maintenance, Management Systems, Thought Leadership

October 1, 2025

6 Proven Maintenance Strategies: Shifting from Firefighting to Foresight

Reactive maintenance isn't just inconvenient-it's a massive drain on profitability. For manufacturing leaders, operational excellence demands more. It requires more leadership, more accountability, and a fundamental shift from firefighting to having foresight - not...

Company Updates

July 10, 2025

Our Refreshed Website and New Logo Represent 4 Core Values and Extended Client Reach

While strategy, staff development, execution, and results remain at the core of what we do, our focus has evolved. As our company has grown, so has our reach. From solar cells to medical PPE,...

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Company Updates

June 26, 2025

Gearing Up for a Productive and Impactful Week of Networking at the 2025 SLMA Annual Meeting

With just under a month to go until the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association's Annual Conference, we are gearing up for a remarkable week of networking and collaboration with industry experts. We also look forward to...

Forest Products, Production Efficiency, Thought Leadership

July 29, 2024

Reflections from 37+ years of Resource Procurement and Management

I have always loved sport analogies to drive alignment around business strategies. In my 37 years in this amazing industry, I’ve seen that the use of a relevant sports analogy can be critical to...

Forest Products, Thought Leadership

July 17, 2024

What Is Your Mill’s Most Profitable Log?

The answer to this key question is often not known by mill staff or log procurement managers. Generally, rules of thumb like ‘try to stay above an 8” top’ or ‘we don’t compete with...

Maintenance, Management Systems, Production Efficiency, Thought Leadership

July 16, 2024

The Art of Managing Downtime

Over the years I’ve had the tremendous opportunity to have worked in many manufacturing environments in multiple industries, across 19 different countries. While each manufacturing operation has nuance, they are universally focused on minimizing...

Forest Products, Management Systems, Thought Leadership

August 17, 2020

Is it the Carpenter, or is it the Tools?

At the conclusion of a recent Value & Recovery Assessment of a large SYP lumber operation, the General Manager was reflecting on issues that we’d identified around drying quality. His mill runs multiple continuous...

Forest Products, Thought Leadership

November 2, 2018

Shhhhh! The Secret To Improving Lumber Recovery Is…

As everyone in the lumber business knows, RECOVERY is a very big deal. For purposes of this article, I’m loosely defining Recovery as the amount of saleable lumber that you are able to extract...

Forest Products, Thought Leadership

October 3, 2018

3 Critical Lumber Mill Financial Drivers: Why Your Ladder May Be Against the Wrong Tree

To a passerby, a ladder leaning against a tree conveys a message. It tells them that the owner of the ladder has determined that, among all the trees in the forest, he has chosen...

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