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Mike Baker, Executive Director of the BWA participated in the 2nd Annual Innovation Corridor Summit on June 11, 2019, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto! It was a day of discussion and advocacy that brought together regional experts to explore how to accelerate the growth of Corridor businesses through improved commercialization, collaboration, and deployment opportunities. Mike Baker, Executive Director of the Bluewater Wood Alliance was a panel speaker on the topic of Industry Collaboration. This expert panel of leading companies and organizations discussed how they are pushing the envelope on productivity-enhancing technology in manufacturing. The panel highlighted their successes and shared insight...
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Take a 3 million square ft. facility, fill it with a constantly moving stream of parts, robots, machines; factor in leadership dedicated to continuous improvement; a workforce dedicated to producing a product of first-rate quality utilizing Lean Manufacturing and what you have is a tour nothing short of memorable and inspiring to witness. Following up from the BWA Lean Road Map Training Event held back on May...
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The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) hosts the EU-Canada Cluster Matchmaking Event 2019 on 5-7 June 2019, in cooperation with the Canadian Superclusters initiative in Toronto, Canada. The overall objective of the event is to foster collaboration between European and Canadian clusters for the benefit of their SME members.
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BWA’s S.M.T.E. attracts Leadership to Milton Thursday, February 7th the BWA hosted its Sales Management Training Event with award-winning sales trainer and President of Sandler Training Milton, Andrew Wall. Though the weather was challenging, many attendees made the trek to explore the multi-faceted aspects of leading sales teams. Do your sales teams have best practices systems in place? What measurables are you currently using? How is performance evaluated and what are its comparables? Andrew Wall provided a hands-on, interactive training session that explored these topics and much more. Andrew Wall leading breakout sessions with a hands-on approach...
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Season's Greetings to everyone! As we look back over the year for the BWA, we have much to be thankful for and proud of. New initiatives have been launched to help our industry, and our membership continues to grow. Some highlights of 2018 include: Membership now approaching 130 member companies Export development project to IMM Show Cologne, Germany 4 Quarterly Networking Events Launch of the BWA Lean Road Map program with 3 public training events and in-house projects Launch of the BWA Sandler Sales training program with 3 public training events and in-house projects 2 Plant Tour Kaizen events Launch...
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Season’s Greetings to everyone! As we look back over the year for the BWA, we have much to be thankful for and proud of. New initiatives have been launched to help our industry, and our membership continues to grow. Some highlights of 2018 include: Membership now approaching 130 member companies Export development project to IMM Show Cologne, Germany 4 Quarterly Networking Events Launch of the BWA Lean Road Map program with 3 public training events and in-house projects Launch of the BWA Sandler Sales training program with 3 public training events and in-house projects 2 Plant Tour Kaizen events Launch...
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Friday, September 28th marked the Bluewater Wood Alliance’s 29th Quarterly Networking Event. The Bluewater Wood Alliance provided industry experts to talk about: Sales & Prospecting, Benefit Industry Trends and CNC Optimization and Utilization Over 60 manufacturing business leaders attended this quarter. The event took place at Ontario’s largest woodworking skills development center: Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. The event commenced with an introduction by Member of Provincial Parliament Amy Fee. Amy, (MPP Kitchener South-Hespeler) a member of multiple Standing Committees including Social Policy & Government Agencies, shared with us a reminder to engage with our local MPPs by raising...
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Brad Cairns from the Center of Lean Learning and Sepp Gmeiner of Lignum Consulting are part of the BWA Lean Team who delivered a day jam-packed with key information and activities for manufacturers. The information shared highlighted the benefits of implementing and utilizing the Lean methodology. We had a lot of questions about Lean that day: “Where to start? What to read? Who should lead? Am I too custom for Lean? Who should be involved? How do we sustain Lean? Etc.. etc..One by...
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