PowerPoint Presentations in PDF from the FPS 60th International Convention, Advanced Process Improvement Systems for the Forest Products Industry Session

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Advanced Process Improvement Systems for the
Forest Products Industry

Sponsor: FPS Quality Control, Process Control & Production Management Group

Session Chair: Timothy M. Young, Associate Prof., Tennessee Forest Products Center, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Session Moderator: Timothy M. Young

State of the North American Wood Adhesives and Composites Market
Herbert J. Kennedy, Regional Sales Mgr., Wood Adhesives, Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc., Decatur, GA
Woods-to-Goods: Measuring the Quality Screen for the Forest to Consumer Supply Chain
D. Earl Kline, Prof., Dan Cumbo, Research Associate, Timothy S. Stiess, T&R Assistant, and Brian H. Bond, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Wood Science & Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Predicting Safe Oak Drying Rates Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Adam M. Taylor, Assistant Prof. and Wood Products Specialist, and Maurice Defo, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Tennessee Forest Products Center, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and Brian H. Bond, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Wood Science & Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
On-line Buffer Capacity Prediction of Particleboard Furnish by Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy
Nicolas Andre, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Timothy M. Young, Associate Prof., and Timothy G. Rials, Prof. and Dir., Tennessee Forest Products Center, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Elements of Knowledge Transfer from Designed Laboratory Experiments to Wood Composites Manufacture
Robert A. Breyer, Senior Technology Mgr. for Wood Adhesives, Paul Baxter and James Knight, Senior Development Chemists for Wood Adhesives, John Cothran, Chemist for Wood Adhesives, Derek Atkinson, Technologist for Wood Adhesives, and Jessica Jennings and Charlie Vest, Senior Technologists for Wood Adhesives, Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc., Decatur, GA
Using Software R for Statistical and Reliability Analysis of Internal Bond of Medium Density Fiberboard
Halima Bensmail, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Statistics, Leslie Shaffer, Grad. Research Assistant, and Timothy M. Young, Associate Prof., Tennessee Forest Products Center, and Frank M. Guess, Prof., Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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