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Jan 13th, the WMCO featured a doubleheader event on the award-winning and highly successful Trade Accelerator Program (TAP) as well as the WMCO/CME Health & Safety Excellence Program (HSEP) designed to bring structure and order to health & safety policies in the workplace while providing money back on company's WSIB premiums in the form of rebates. Leading off the event were Cecilia Turnbull and Tony Jabour, both from the Toronto Region Board of Trade, providing a program overview of the success TAP delivered for many companies and how the program is designed to help businesses develop or expand into...
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The WMCO, in partnership with Archmill House, brought forward a first ever Hybrid – Plant Tour Focus Group event recently this past December. The event successfully bridged the challenge of collaborating our online attendance with the on-site attending members for the tour. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the trade skills sectors faced headwinds of sourcing skilled labor effectively. As the dramatic rise in wood products demand surged through the past two years, manufacturers continued to struggle to source talented and capable workers. The featured topic of the recent Hybrid Plant Tour brought together wood manufacturers of all sizes...
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On behalf of The Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario’s board of directors and staff, we wish you all the best for the holiday season and thank you for your ongoing support of the cluster over the past year! You, as members and partners, have helped the WMCO evolve from its humble beginnings into the provincial cluster for the value-added wood industry we are today! Despite the challenges over the past year for all of us, we are proud to serve and support you and your company to continue to be successful as we move forward into...
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The tour theme challenge focused on product sequencing with a review of product flow and continuous improvements that have been made over the...
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Due to the high demand of customers orders and the necessity to expedite product flow, WMCO facilitated a...
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On September 23rd, the WMCO brought forward Part 2 of our export roundtable series, which included guest presenter Maggie Weaver Principal of Shaftesbury associates. The event featured a detailed review of Strategyzer’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) in the first half of the event. The canvas is an essential first step for companies that are going to be working with trade experts. Often, in group settings like the Trade Accelerator Program (TAP), the BMC enables trade experts to understand the goals of a business and the objectives that they are pursuing. It is also a valuable self-assessment tool to define what...
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The Health & Safety Excellence Program is a guided program where businesses are provided a variety of H&S topics to choose from to implement in their facility, thus improving...
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Another Lean Road Map training has wrapped up. And in its wake are more WMCO wood manufacturers with wider eyes to see waste for what it is, and how to go about reducing it. Over two days, Brad Cairns, Quantum Lean in partnership with Sepp Gmeiner, Lignum Consulting provided online training teaching the foundation of Lean manufacturing with a plethora of videos, examples, first-hand experience, step guides, quizzes, and more. The interactive training provided a platform attendees could keep at pace and enjoy the training along the way. The event explored important lean principles, concepts, and ways companies can cultivate...
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