first thoghts at conference

This week I am at Atlanta Ga IWF convention. It is the woodworking convention to be at. All of the latest machinery and supplies are in one place. There are lots of learning seminars as well. I am attending 6 of the 13 seminars. Much of what they are talking about in the seminars I am already doing. Especially the things related to high profit companies. Which I am not, sadly, but we are on our way. Open book management, training sessions, and kaizen events, and fun events. The biggest thing that they point out that high profit companies do is: doing a little bit better at everything that they do, which adds up to double profit, and they talking 5%-10% profit margins. They are saying that material cost are seriously escalating, and not showing any signs of going down.