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March 2023 #15284 Page #46
No Excuses, Just Hard Work
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s everyone in our industry knows, there’s always another challenge on the horizon. While writing this article in late February, much of North America is experiencing another Polar Vortex. It’s perhaps ironic that our first Polar Vortex was in 2019, right in the middle of the run on machinery that Edmond Lim, P.Eng. had begun in 2018. Now here we are again, and machinery lead times are again often LimTek Solutions Inc. 12 to 24 months. Our industry has been running full tilt since 2018 and there’s always something affecting our schedules. In addition to machinery lead times, a second chip shortage and parts shortage has begun. Although we had devised a timely solution during the initial worldwide chip shortage (see my January article, “Turning Supply Constraints into Opportunities”), this second run has contributed to some slippage in our schedule.
Photo courtesy of Jason Allard, EBC Trusses
Although we are doing our best to get everyone their Beasts on time, I’m getting calls daily from customers wanting their machinery as soon as possible. No one could have predicted record machinery investments during and after a pandemic, and the side effect of the labor situation becoming even more challenging for us and our customers.
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