PFM Production Winter '07 Issue

OEM-Friendly Profiles
Manufacturers offer an assortment of profiles that are well-adapted to the requirements of production framing while creating attractive frames that appeal to the retail market. Read this online.
   

Choosing the Correct Accounting Software
Chaz Kirkpatrick, CIO/co-founder of AureliuSoft and chief technology officer of Echo Health, points out the key factors in choosing and customizing the appropriate OEM software accounting packages. Read this online.
  

Has Your Paradigm Shifted?
Dan Wenke, owner of China Frame and Mirror, focuses on the importance of keeping up with changes in the industry to ensure profit and success and have an edge over your competition. Read this online.
  

Quick Tips
Easy ideas to improve production efficiency include whether or not to use glue when joining polystyrene moulding, forklift safety, and computer security and spyware. Read this online.

Perspective
Leading art publishers discuss their views on the ever-changing wall art industry. John Chester, owner of Wild Apple, discusses his view on why attempts by the three segments of the wall art industry to vertically integrate are rarely successful and why the retailer—framer—publisher structure still makes sense. Read this online.
   

Autumn Trends
Vivian Kistler, CPF, GCF, CMG, gives an overview and highlights the offerings from the Autumn High Point Furniture Market in North Carolina. Read this online.

New Releases: The Latest Wall Art
A selection of the latest prints from leading art publishers that supply the production framing market. These images are just some of the many that are popular today. Read this online.
 

Time & Motion: The Keys to Efficiency
Industry consultant Jim Parrie, Ph.D., CPF, explores the benefits of doing time-motion studies at production framing operations and explores the many hidden factors that can be discovered in the process, leading to more efficient operations. Read this online.
 

Do the Math
Contributing Editor Jay Goltz shows the impact that fixed costs can have on profits as they change when you have to increase production capacity. Read this online.

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