Real discussion. Real tools. Real impact.

The folks at Park Industries organized another great Digital Stoneworking Expo (DSE) in Bozeman, MT this month, with talks on everything from evaluating your shop to hiring strategies to meeting the growing demand for mitered edges. Four different fabricators were on...

Identifying Value Added Activities

Having trouble finding good help these days? Ed Young (WeReduceChaos.com) recognizes that pretty much everyone is struggling with this issue. In a growing economy, growth in jobs outstrips the supply of good labor. In addition to getting more creative in finding and...

Baltimore Stone Summit

Last week, I attended another MIA+BSI “stone summit” event at the MS International outside of Baltimore. As I’ve mentioned before, I love these regional events, because they get a bunch of fabricators in a room together and just let ’em talk....

MIA+BSI Illinois Stone Summit

Last week, I attended MIA+BSI’s Illinois Stone Summit at Universal Granite and Marble in Chicago. These events are SO valuable for fabricators. There’s an education segment as well as structured discussion time, and they always have a great speaker to lead...

Good to Great with Moraware: Surfaces

Connecticut-based Surfaces transformed the way they do business with the help of CounterGo and JobTracker. In this video, Jim Wiltshire outlines their end-to-end process and how Moraware’s software helps Surfaces deliver a consistently high level of quality for...