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Effective maintenance management should be a component of BC‟s changing value-added wood industry Edwards, Vanessa

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British Columbia’s value-added wood industry is in a period of development due to the actions of government, research facilities, and industry. This sector is an important component of a diverse forestry industry and in particular is an important way of developing economic stability in rural forestry based communities. The majority of BC’s value-added sector is composed of small to medium sized businesses, which in theory have less specialization of human resources and knowledge gaps because of this. Effective maintenance management is a tool that these manufacturers could be utilizing to develop their industry position and global competitiveness. Groups that are driving the development of the industry should include maintenance management in their goals and discussions of quality improvement, business strategy and marketing development. To approach this topic, research was completed into the background of the value-added wood industry, a literature review of maintenance management strategies was completed and a manufacturer was interviewed.

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Effective maintenance management should be a component of BC‟s changing value-added wood industry
Creator
Edwards, Vanessa
Date Issued
2008-04-14
Description
British Columbia’s value-added wood industry is in a period of development due to the actions of government, research facilities, and industry. This sector is an important component of a diverse forestry industry and in particular is an important way of developing economic stability in rural forestry based communities. The majority of BC’s value-added sector is composed of small to medium sized businesses, which in theory have less specialization of human resources and knowledge gaps because of this. Effective maintenance management is a tool that these manufacturers could be utilizing to develop their industry position and global competitiveness. Groups that are driving the development of the industry should include maintenance management in their goals and discussions of quality improvement, business strategy and marketing development. To approach this topic, research was completed into the background of the value-added wood industry, a literature review of maintenance management strategies was completed and a manufacturer was interviewed.
Subject
Maintenance management; Value-added wood industry; Global competitiveness; Forestry
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. WOOD 493
Date Available
2016-11-21
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0103108
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28612
Affiliation
Forestry, Faculty of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Undergraduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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