PowerPoint Presentations in PDF from the FPS 61st International Convention, Continuous Improvement in the Wood Products Industry Session

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Continuous Improvement in the Wood Products Industry

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

Session Chair: Nicolas André, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Tennessee Forest Products Center, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Session Moderator: Nicolas André

Wood Products Quality in the New Millennium
Jeffrey M. Yelle, Corporate Quality Mgr., Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Nashville, TN
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Going from the Laboratory to the Field
Robert A. Breyer, Senior Technology Mgr. for Wood Adhesives, P.S. Baxter, Scientist, J.H. Knight, Senior Development Chemist, J.D. Cothran, Associate Chemist, J.D. Jennings, Senior Technologist, D.L. Atkinson, Technologist, and D.D. Carter, Associate Technologist, Structural Panels Adhesives Group, Georgia-Pacific, LLC, Decatur, GA
ROMI-Flow: A Combined Process/Flow Modeling Methodology for Dimension Hardwood Mills
Charles D. Ray, Assistant Prof., Wood Operations Research, School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; Janice K. Wiedenbeck, Project Leader, Northeastern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Princeton, WV; and Amit Pawar and Satinder Gill, Grad. Research Assistants, School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA
Rough Mill Management for the Lean Customer
Garrett T. Norman, Grad. Research Assistant, Dept. of Wood Science & Forest Products, and D. Earl Kline, Prof. of Manufacturing Systems, Sloan Foundation Forest Industries Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Data-Mining Algorithms for the Forest Products Industry
S. Baek, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Industrial & Information Engineering, Nicolas André, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Tennessee Forest Products Center, H. Cho, Research Associate, Dept. of Industrial & Information Engineering, Timothy M. Young, Associate Prof., Tennessee Forest Products Center, and Myong-Kee Jeong, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Industrial & Information Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Exploring Reliability of Wood-Plastic Composites: Stiffness, Tensile, and Flexural Strengths
Diane G. Perhac, Grad. Research Assistant, Dept. of Statistics, Operations & Management Science, Timothy M. Young, Associate Prof., Tennessee Forest Products Center, and Frank M. Guess, Prof., and Ramón V. León, Associate Prof., Dept. of Statistics, Operations & Management Science, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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Causal Paths in the Mass Customization-Competitiveness Relationship
Emmanuel T. Kodzi, Jr., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Krannert School of Management, and Rado Gazo, Associate Prof., Wood Processing - Industrial Engineering, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

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