Understanding marketing research begins with understanding marketing
and marketing management. This study builds a concise normative
model for marketing management and infers from it the scope and
nature of marketing research and the role various organizations should
take in conducting it. Marketing research activities in the Pacific
Northwestern forest industry...
The purpose of this study was to derive a set of sampling plans
to be used by the Western Wood Products Association for the reinspection of shipped lumber. Reinspection of a shipment of lumber
occurs when a claim of grade is made by the buyer.
Each sampling plan is derived...
Operations research is concerned with the science of decision and uses mathematical models to aid in making these decisions. In this thesis operations research is used in connection with the lumber industry. The problem of concern has to do with a lumber company that is unable to supply the mill...
The "Teepee" type wood residue incinerator, similar to
many other sources, requires sampling at the point where the emissions enter the atmosphere. Because the location of the emission
point is hazardous and unpleasant for the operation of a sampling
probe, a portable, tilt-up column was developed which permitted installation, operation,...