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• Each year, the BCMC Committee sifts through attendee surveys, searching for timely and meaningful topics for the next show.
• Since industry codes are becoming more specific about responsibilities, many component manufacturers are creating their own technical teams. 
• Incentive compensation is becoming more common in the industry because most employers are looking for ways to compensate their personnel for outstanding performance or meeting preset goals.

• WTCA has created an educational resource to address component manufacturers’ business and management issues called Management Notes.
• The first Management Note available discusses the necessity of non-divisible over width load permits per the California Highway Patrol.
• Future Management Notes will cover a range of topics from records retention to storm water management plans.

• These ratings are determined according to the ASTM E 119 test and designs documented by approved sources meet the requirements of the building code. 
• A good place for a building designer to start is WTCA’s Fire & Wood Trusses web page: www.sbcindustry.com/fire.php.

Find out why BCMC is the best show for the structural building components industry!

• Component saw feed rates generally similar, so overall production rates come down to set-up speed.
• For automated single blade saws, set-up time is not a factor because the single blade saw’s cutting head location is fixed.
• Batching similar parts can significantly increase production rates on a component saw, but batching will not make much of a difference with a linear saw.
• Linear saws tend to produce less wood scrap than component saws.

• The National Weather Service estimates that there are 25 million lightning flashes each year. 
• Burns, nerve damage and cardiac arrest can happen when lightning strikes someone. 
• Invest in surge protectors to protect computers and other electronics for power surges.

• Online Risk and Liability Management Best Practices for the Structural Compon-ent Manufacturing Industry, or ORisk, is currently in development and scheduled to be release within the next month.
• Phase 1 of ORisk contains the foundation content necessary to understand more advanced risk management.
• Any employee who works closely with risk management, claims handling, in-surance, safety and customer contracts should consider viewing Phase 1.

• WTCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has presented many of the risk management and liability avoidance programs, which will soon be available online in an up-dated and modified format.
• At BCMC 2004, one question in the Manufacturers’ Roundtable was the im-portance of handling truss collapses proactively and the need to establish guidelines on how to properly conduct truss collapse investigations.

• Builders and condominium developers have seen an increase in construction defect lawsuit filings asserted by homeowners whose homes are valued far below their mortgage balances. 
• The increased numbers of construction defect lawsuits will inevitably involve lower tier suppliers, including component manufacturers. 
• Being able to document that a Jobsite Package was received by the customer and the truss erector is a risk management measure that can protect component manufacturers from products and completed operations risks.