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Every year over 4 million tourists travel to Holmes County, Ohio to experience the unique lifestyle of the world’s largest Amish community. To “outsiders” the lifestyle may seem simple, at times perhaps even a bit backward compared to today’s modern lifestyle. As you drive the winding back roads of Holmes County, you’re sure to end up following a horse drawn buggy with a small child peering out the back window as the horse slowly clips around a corner or over the crest of a hill. The pace of life is slower for the Amish, yet it remains a diverse community filled with innovative and hardworking people, known for their exceptional skills in hand craftsmanship.
Have you ever gone to the grocery store and there was absolutely no one in line for the checkout when you went into the store, a long line magically forms the instant you begin moving towards the checkout counter? This is a classic example of a principle called “variability” in the lean world, each customer took a different amount of time to browse for their goods. This creates a situation all the customers in the store could potentially go to the checkout counter simultaneously even though they may have entered the store in steady intervals.…
By Long Range Systems
Founded more than 70 years ago, Yoder Lumber is a third-generation, family-owned manufacturer of top-quality Appalachian hardwood products. Products are made in Yoder Lumber's Ohio and West Virginia facilities and then distributed to warehouses, factories and stores nationwide and internationally. Yoder Lumber started using the LRS Forklift Staff pagers and Butler XP pagers in 2015 in their Hardwood Components Plant.…
By Noah Mechling
The Ohio Forestry Association (OFA) winter meeting was held in Dublin, OH on March 2nd, 2017. Each year a company is awarded “Logger of the Year” at the annual meeting. This year one of Yoder Lumber’s contracted crews, M&H Logging received the “Logger of the Year” award.…
Written by Jessica Ferlaino
Business in Focus
Founded by John J. Yoder in 1944, Yoder Lumber Company is a third-generation family operation that continues to offer its customers superior selection and timely delivery from its in-house transportation and logistics division. Its consistent quality is rooted in tradition and enhanced by technologically advanced equipment and processes. Yoder Lumber has come a long way since its humble beginnings of a five-man crew and a portable sawmill, having grown to over 200 employees across four locations in Ohio and West Virginia. Each of these state-of-the-art facilities is strategically located in the heart of the Appalachian hardwood region.…
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