Decision Dynamics Inc. names Dave B. Fisher to head a new division -- Decision Dynamics Canada.LAKE OSWEGO Lake Os·we·go A city of northwest Oregon, a residential suburb of Portland. Population: 35,800. , Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 1995--Dr. Eugene L. Bryan, president and founder of Decision Dynamics Inc., is pleased to announce the opening of Decision Dynamics Canada, Burnaby, B.C., and is especially pleased to appoint Dave B. Fisher as vice president and general manager for Canadian operations. Decision Dynamics has been a leader in the development of management software for the forest products industry since 1966. Fisher brings to Decision Dynamics Canada 23 years of diverse forest industry experience spanning several notable organizations: Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd., The Council of Forest Industries of B.C., International Forest Products Limited, Canadian Forest Products Ltd., and West Coast Plywood plywood, manufactured board composed of an odd number of thin sheets of wood glued together under pressure with grains of the successive layers at right angles. Laminated wood differs from plywood in that the grains of its sheets are parallel. Co. Ltd. His experience includes: management responsibilities in five sawmills -- from supervisor to general manager; teaching lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to education and sawmill sawmill, installation or facility in which cut logs are sawed into standard-sized boards and timbers. The saws used in such an installation are generally of three types: the circular saw, which consists of a disk with teeth around its edge; the band saw, which manufacturing programs at operations throughout B.C.; conducting sawmill efficiency analyses for coastal and interior operations; management of a large forest region in Alberta; and most recently, as president and COO of a plywood company. -- Dave is a past winner of the B.C. Coast Lumber Grading Championship -- In the mid-1980s, Dave authored SICON SICON Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations (StartShip Troopers TV show) , a statistical QC computer program for controlling lumber size variance from sawmill machine centers -- Dave has presented papers on manufacturing quality and efficiency at conferences throughout Western Canada
Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West and the Pacific Northwest -- Dave currently sits on the Forest Products Review Committee for the Science Council of British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography Decision Dynamics' continued expansion in the Canadian marketplace will focus on a recently introduced software product: The Sawmill-Optimizer(TM). This is a Windows(TM)-based management tool that identifies profit improvement opportunities that exist through: optimum resource utilization; increased productivity, yield and grade recovery; and optimum product mix based on raw material and manufacturing capabilities. Ultimately, an operation's competitive position for fiber procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. is greatly enhanced and all production and sales activities can be coordinated for maximum profit. Interested parties can call Mr. Edgerton or Mr. Fisher to learn more about this state-of-the-art product and related services. CONTACT: Decision Dynamics Inc. Randy Edgerton, 503/636-4310 or Dave Fisher, 604/430-0546 |
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