Performance Excellence in the Wood Products Industry
The forestry and wood products specialists in Oregon State University's Extension Service continually work with manufacturers in key areas including:
- Lean Manufacturing
- Operations Research - Linear programming, simulation, and modeling
- Production Management - Lean manufacturing, plant layout and design, production scheduling
- Quality and Process Control - Total quality control, lumber size control, statistical process control
- Marketing and Business Management - Pricing, promotion, sales, environmental marketing
- Wood Technology - Wood anatomy and structure, silvicultural impacts on wood quality
Findings and recommendations are in a new series, Performance Excellence in the Wood Products Industry. Reports are written for busy managers -- they're in clear, everyday language, and they emphasize the practical. For readers who want to know more about the topic, each report also includes references to other sources of information.
The following titles are currently available (Note: All publications are in Adobe pdf format). To order hardcopy versions of any of the publications listed below, click here.
- An Introduction to Models and Probability Concepts
- Using the Graphical Method to Solve Linear Programs
- Using the Simplex Method to Solve Linear Programming Maximization Problems
- Using Duality and Sensitivity Analysis to Interpret Linear Programming Solutions
- Transportation Problem: A Special Case for Linear Programming
- Simulating a Manufacturing System: An Introduction
Quality and Process Control - Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Part 1: Introduction to SPC
- Part 2: How and Why SPC Works
- Part 3: Pareto Analysis and Check Sheets
- Part 4: Flowcharts
- Part 5: Cause-and-Effect Diagrams
- Part 6: Design of Experiments
- Part 7: Variables Control Charts
- Part 8: Attributes Control Charts
- Part 9: Process Capability Analysis
Lumber Size Control
Marketing and Business Management
- Sources of Market Information for the Forest Products Industry
- Sales and Understanding People (series brochure)
- Personal Selling (series brochure)
- Developing and Maintaining Customer Contacts (series brochure)
- The Sales Presentation (series brochure)
- An Introduction to Forest Certification