Dear friends: The Industrial Engineering, Operation Analysis and Logistics working party (5.04.13) AT IUFRO is glad to announce a series of webinars scheduled for Spring 2018. Please MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The goal of this webinar series is to present latest updates on technology and operations management practices impacting the forest products industry. The webinars are free and do not require a registration. If for some reason you cannot participate, a recording of each webinar will be uploaded to the working party web site. The schedule is as follows: · Wood procurement. April 10, 2018. 4 pm -5 pm Central European Time (GMT +01:00). WebEx session number 310 080 448. Speaker will be Manfred Gronalt from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria · Production Management in Forest based industries. May 15, 2018. 4-5pm Central European Time (GMT +01:00). WebEx session number 318 558 152 · Tooling Issues in Wood-Based Manufacturing. -June 12, 2018. 10 pm-11pm Malaysia Time (GMT+08:00). WebEx session number 648 885 702 Instructions to access WebEx 1. Go to https://virginiatech.webex.com <https://virginiatech.webex.com/> 2. Enter the WebEx session number (see above) 3. If this is your first time using WebEx, the platform will ask you to install the WebEx client. It will take a couple of minutes 4. Once you are logged-in, please adjust your microphone and speakers preferences. Past webinars · Lean Logistics. Value Stream Mapping Applied to the Wood Fiber Supply Chain. February 6, 2018. · Statistical Process Control (SPC) – A Time-Tested Tool for Process Control and Improvement. March 20, 2018. Videos of these past seminars can be accessed at https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/50400/50413/public… <https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-5/50000/50400/50413/publications/> ---------------------------------- Henry Quesada Associate Professor Department of Sustainable Biomaterials Virginia Tech Address: 1650 Research Center Drive, Blacksburg, VA, 24061 Phone: (540) 231-0978 Web: www.sbio.vt.edu