Description
Hear the story of how Cascadia Structural Timber Solutions went from being a small hand fabrication and truss manufacturer to a fast-growing glulam fabricator, looking to lead the way in new mass timber buildings using Informed Design in Inventor software. The mass timber industry is on the rise, and with it comes unique challenges on the jobsite. As many projects move to a hybrid of steel and wood, we need to be able to provide products that can be easily used and understood early in the design process. With Informed Design we can predefine structural members—from columns to beams to preassembled trusses—that can be added at the beginning of the design process. We can provide flexibility for our customers by giving them specific parameters they can change while still allowing the design to be easy to manufacture. With our push to implement lean manufacturing principles, these designs allow us to scale our business and increase profitability while providing a great experience for our customers.
Key Learnings
- Discover why Lean Manufacturing and Design for Manufacturing is key for Industrialized Construction.
- Learn how Informed Design gives designers the tools to create with pre-approved designs that have design for manufacturing and Lean Manufacturing built in.
- See how Cascadia Structural Timber Solutions is using Informed Design for prefabricated Mass Timber Components.
Speaker
- KGKyle GilhamKyle Gilham has been around the Mass Timber since he was in high school working in the shop at Western Wood Structures Inc., the company his dad worked at, fabricating glulam bridges and buildings. When he went to college he decided to try a new industry and got his degree in Mechanical Engineering. After school he went to work for a heavy material handling company designing heavy duty winches and marine cranes for Navy ships. Here he learned the value of Design for Manufacturing, especially after designing a few unmachinable parts himself. After he had a short stint working at Daimler Trucks, designing components for Semi-Trucks. Here he learned how large companies integrated Design for Manufacturing with Lean Manufacturing and assembly lines to increase production and lower costs. After a little over a year, he switched over to software, working at Autodesk for the next 7 years. Here he started working with the Inventor and Revit teams and learning more about Industrialized Construction. He started to get his MBA from Willamette University and was halfway through when an opportunity came to help run a small timber fabrication company that Western Wood Structures had just bought. It was directly in the Industrialized Construction space and in Mas Timber which seemed like a perfect fit. For the past two years he has been working to shift this company, with a fantastic executive team, from a company with a machine to a true manufacturing company, realizing all the benefits associated with Industrialized Construction.
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