ATICA's Division
Millwrights & Preventative Maintenance

Our Mission

Atica's preventative maintenance services focus on three measurable and deliverable objectives:

1. Reduce the personnel, property and financial risks,
2. Increase operating profits and ...
3. Minimize costs and lost cash flow resulting from unscheduled mill shut downs.

Through the use of common sense accounting, we all readily recognize that sawmill operating costs and cash flow impacts resulting from unscheduled shutdowns are very expensive. In the table provided below one can quickly determine where one's mill is currently at with respect to the Sales per hour and Costs per hour that are mutually at risk with unscheduled shutdowns. (Adjust to and fill in the blanks using your mill's specific metrics)

Costs Per Hour Downtime		% Total		Per Hour		Per MBF
Sales		100%
Less:
Log Costs		68%
Profit		4%
Subtotal		72%
Conversion Costs		28%
Break Even Sales

Common Sense, Best Business Practice

In our experience, there is no better, faster or easier way to improve the bottom line of operations than to make sure that safety and maintenance is priority #1 throughout the entire sawmill. It's not just moral, humane and ethical; it also produces an incredible marginal ROI while also slashing your legal and financial risks.

Our Process

Summary

Although each and every client's situation will vary, the typical process can be understood within a 6 step evaluation checkup as follows:

1. Off Site Call to Atica to discuss a possible Opening Interview with management. Note: Confidential Non Disclosure Agreements are recommended and provided.
2. On Site Evaluation of the maintenance staff.
3. On Site Evaluation of any existing maintenance program.
4. On Site Evaluation of maintenance personal including testing.
5. On Site Evaluation & Summary Report of sawmill facility.
6. On Site Evaluation Follow Up of integrated improvement progress.

- Client defined needs sets time requirement -

For detailed listing see White Paper Entitled

"Supporting Your Millwright's Preventative Maintenance Program"

at http://www.atica.us/white_papers.htm

Our Deliverable Commitment

Our commitment to you is to guarantee "readily recognizable value" for each and every engagement we accept. That is our promise.

Our People and Their Core Competencies

Gary Logsdon, an Atica affiliate has personally accumulated over 38 years in the Timber Industry specializing as a consulting engineer in the AutoCad drafting, engineering, design, hands-on disassemble, re-fabrication, erection & installation of timber mills and the secondary support systems such as cogeneration, water purification, etc.

Mr. Logsdon – has an uncanny ability to set up and implement "Time Sensitive Emergency Intervention /Mitigation Procedures" on industrial & sawmill facilities including unique equipment repairs; Coach, train and establish on-going Preventative Maintenance Programs, etc.

In these regards, "time sensitive" is being defined as either sawmill operations or federal OSHA and other governmental oversight/corrective issues.

What We Have Produced

Initiating Design, Fabrication and Construction of Steel Structures, Components & Support Systems:

New Greenfield Hardwood Sawmill facility; Port Angeles, Washington; New Sawmill - Yakama Forest Product; White Swan, Washington; Greenfield Sawmill, Kiln and Planer; South Bahia, Brazil; Crown Pacific Forest Product; Gilchrist, Oregon - US $3.6 Million Rosboro Lumber Company; Disassemble from Weyerhaeuser Lumber, two Laminated Veneer Lumber Systems; Springfield Oregon; 40,600 Sq Ft Planer Building - Hampton Associates; Darrington, Washington; Plywood Veneer Mill upgrade - DAW Forest Product; Redmond Oregon - US $3.4M; EDLF Line and 3-Story Metal Building - Pyramid Mountain Lumber Inc; Seeley Lake, Montana; Filing Room and Misc. Equipment - Tilt Up Concrete Buildings - Ordell Construction; Eugene, Oregon; Project Manager Industrial & Sawmill Equipment Repairs - Reliable Fabrication & Renewal; Springfield, Oregon.