From the second you get up every day, expertise is throughout you. As an illustration, do you continue to have an alarm clock? Like most of us, the alarm now in all probability comes out of your cellphone. Whether or not your workday begins with a video assembly from residence or by plugging in a jobsite deal with into your work van’s GPS, expertise is built-in into so many elements of our each day routines.

As a result of the wooden flooring trade has been round for a whole lot of years, some may need the notion that we’re caught at the hours of darkness ages. In my view, we really are in a time of vibrant change and alternative. Within the “Innovation and Expertise” version of Hardwood Flooring journal, you’ll examine the methods our trade has superior and the way these improvements may help wooden flooring be extra aggressive towards different flooring surfaces.

From synthetic intelligence (AI) to earlier than and after jobsite picture capabilities, you’ll hear from wooden flooring professionals about methods you may check out new applied sciences to assist with what you are promoting. There are also plenty of firms in our trade that focus solely on innovation. They’re sharing recommendation on easy methods to keep up-to-date on the most recent and biggest. One of many methods you are able to do that’s by way of the various assets supplied by the Nationwide Wooden Flooring Affiliation (NWFA).

By being a member of the NWFA, you may have a community of execs throughout the availability chain who can share their experiences, contacts, and providers. There isn’t any higher place to see the most recent merchandise and be taught in regards to the newest methods than the annual NWFA Wooden Flooring Expo. The NWFA’s technical tips and publications are up to date recurrently to information you thru conditions on the job. And, the journal you might be studying proper now’s one other simple strategy to discover out about tendencies and tips about easy methods to implement them.

Since we’re speaking about expertise, the NWFA’s on-line studying platform, NWFA College (NWFAU), have to be talked about right here. With greater than 350 programs, it’s a handy and reasonably priced strategy to full coaching at your personal tempo on matters together with set up, sand and end, product information, manufacturing, and far more. You’ll earn digital badges alongside the best way to indicate your instructional development. New programs are being added recurrently, together with the most recent one, “Promoting Towards Wooden Flooring Look-alikes,” which introduces methods for successfully promoting actual wooden flooring when competing
towards alternate options.

NWFA additionally affords a collection of webinars that can assist you be taught on the go. Tech Tuesdays, Webinar Wednesdays, and Product Theater Thursdays present a strategy to improve your information rapidly. In lower than an hour, you’ll acquire an edge listening to from trade consultants on a wide range of matters in an interactive surroundings.

On the similar time, there is no such thing as a substitution for in-person coaching with a hands-on commerce like ours. The NWFA affords greater than 50 hands-on coaching occasions every year all through the U.S. and Canada. It’s the place to be taught new abilities from seasoned NWFA Regional Instructors and see producer representatives who not solely present their latest merchandise, however give college students an opportunity to check them out.

Department out and learn the way innovation can enhance your work. For extra details about assets out there from the NWFA, name them at the moment at 800.422.4556 or try the NWFA on its social channels and web site at NWFA.ORG.