Editor's Message

Editor's Message: What Are Your Biggest Pain Points?

We asked CMs to identify their biggest opportunities for improvement.

Editor's Message: Where Do You Get Your Wood?

Ever wonder where other CMs buy their lumber?

Editor's Message: A Workforce Option to Consider

A recent poll suggests inmate populations can help solve labor needs

Editor's Message: The Industry Is About to Expand

This year's upcoming BCMC Show promises to be the biggest show our industry has hosted since the downturn, and a lot is being planned to bring significant value to every attendee.

Editor's Message: Keep on Truckin'

A recent online poll on the topic of transportation of finished goods was one of our most popular in terms of responses, yet its results indicate most CMs go about it in the same way.

Editor's Message: Getting in on the Ground Floor

One of the most significant benefits of SBC Magazine’s new online polling approach is it gives component manufacturers (CMs) a glimpse into how their business model and/or local market compares to the industry as a whole. 

Editor's Message: What Does Your Company Actually Sell?

On the surface, your company is selling its people and their expertise in using highly specialized software and equipment to design and manufacture a series of structural components. Additionally, you’re selling your ability to assemble those components as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible and deliver them to the jobsite exactly when the customer needs them.

Editor's Message: What Will Your Company Do Tomorrow?

How often do you contemplate your scope of work (SOW), as it’s formally defined in ANSI/TPI 1 Chapter 2? That standard was originally published in 1995 and has essentially become law with its adoption into the International Residential and International Building Codes. 

Editor's Message: How Often Do You Think

The primary mission of SBC Magazine is to connect with component manufacturers (CMs) from across the country and share their best practices and lessons learned. Of course, the biggest challenge in that effort is identifying the timely struggles of one group of CMs and then finding the CM who has developed a best practice to solve it.

Editor's Message: Reaching More of the Industry Each Week

SBC Magazine aims not only to serve as the voice of the structural framing and building envelope industry, it strives to be the main conduit for the information component manufacturers (CMs) find most valuable.