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HONE was developed to promote training and continuing education within the wood products industries. Here you will find information about training programs, workshops, conferences, seminars and short courses that meet the needs of wood products companies and their employees. Programs that are for academic or scholastic credit, that are degree-granting, or that can be used toward degree-granting are not included on this website. Such programs can be found on the website operated by the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers. Read more »
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New Courses
The following courses have been recently added. To view all courses click here.
11/8/2010
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Virginia Tech
The ROUGH MILL IMPROVEMENT USING ROMI 3.1 workshop is designed to help rough mill managers, supervisors, and operators to improve the performance of their rough mill, achieve reliable quality and deliveries, and decrease costs. Workshop participants will learn how to use the power of the USDA Forest Service's ROMI 3.1 rough mill simulation tool to assess improvement scenarios.
9/10/2010
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Virginia Tech
This workshop will review those efforts by introducing the basic concepts of lean thinking, and how those concepts can be translated into practical applications so your firm might start looking at important energy consumption reductions in a short time.
11/12/2010
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Virginia Tech
This workshop will focus on the basic concepts of SCM as described earlier. We will begin with a review of SCM definitions and what the new trends and challenges are for today’s firms in regards of the supply chain.
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