Practical and pragmatic programs that emphasize hands-on training you can use immediately in your business will fill the conference menu for Wood Pro Expo Florida.

Co-located with the Closets and Organized Storage Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, the even will be June 30 through July 2. Attendees can participate in events and programs connected to both the Wood Pro Expo track and the Closets track.

Pricing Workshop
Starting off the Wood Pro Expo track is a Pricing Workshop led by Will Sampson. He’ll offer attendees a host of real-world tips to improve their pricing skills to guarantee profit and earn better work. He’ll discuss common pricing pitfalls, negotiation skills, figuring a loaded hourly shop rate, and how to reconcile pricing for the market with pricing for profit.

Could your business survive a 4-alarm fire? 
That’s the question Keith Hill asks in this deep dive into protecting your production technology. Hill is President and Senior Network Architect at NitroTek, Inc. in Apex, North Carolina. Recently, one of his clients in Massachusetts suffered a devasting fire, but all of his valuable production technology was saved. In fact, the system was so thorough that it generated the first 911 call and highlighted the origin of the fire.

Hands-on lean
Brad Cairns and Lynn Thomas from Quantum Lean will put participants though a hands-on, working lean manufacturing cell to get a real grasp of how lean works and why you should use it in your manufacturing plant.

Success with CNC automation
Larry Adams, online editor for Woodworking Network, leads this panel discussion featuring leaders in CNC automation.

Architectural woodwork success
Will Sampson leads a panel sponsored by the Architectural Woodwork Institute to discuss how woodworking businesses can capitalize and succeed with complex architectural projects.

AWI has just joined the Wood Pro Expo as a conference sponsor, and the organization is exploring new programs and networking activities to enhance the value of the Wood Pro Expo experience for architectural woodworking companies and other custom woodworkers.

For details and to register, visit woodproexpoflorida.com.