| 8:30 - 9:00 am |
Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 11:00 am |
| Kevin Padden - session 1 |
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Shop layout and expansion (including machinery additions) |
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Air & Water Systems |
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Material handling and safety issues (with OSHA updates) |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 pm |
| Fred Hueston - session 2 |
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Efficient use of hand tools |
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Fabricating engineered stone - challenges and solutions |
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Working with resin-treated slabs |
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Templating (including digital and hard templates) |
|
| 12:30 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:15 - 3:15 pm |
| Mark Lauzon - session 3 |
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Purchasing and implementing CNC technology |
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Understanding machinery costs |
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The digitally integrated shop (competing with large "stone production plants") |
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Top/seam polishing |
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| 3:15 - 3:45 pm |
Open Fabricator Forum
| This question-and-answer session with offer a dialogue with the audience, where they can raise specific questions not addressed by the presentations. It will be an open forum involving all three speakers as a panel, with input also coming from the fabricators in attendance as well as other industry veterans on hand. |
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| 3:45 - 4:30 pm |
Networking Reception |
