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INDUSTRY MARKETPLACE

Wednesday Oct. 26th

9:00 am–10:00 am & 10:15 am–11:15 am

Participate in DHI's 2011 Industry Marketplace and experience informative educational sessions conducted by this year’s selected exhibitors. Meet face-to-face with your strategic business partners away from the busy tradeshow floor, and learn about their new products and plans. With a finger on the pulse of today’s rapidly changing business environment, they have the in-depth knowledge and experience to help you stay competitive.

Don't miss this opportunity to network with these key industry leaders and your peers and discover evolving trends and business practices that will keep you on the cutting edge.

Participating Exhibitors

ACCESS IT
contractERP RoleTailored: Ready For the Future of Your Business
9:00 am–10:00 am

Attend this session to find out why so many distributors have chosen contractERP to run their business!

Modernizing the way your business runs with a solution that is designed specifically to optimize each and every employee’s efficiency is no longer a luxury, but has become a necessity to prepare and build for the future. In this session, we’ll dive deep into contractERP RoleTailored and let you see first hand the difference contractERP can make across your entire organization.

contractERP In the Cloud
10:15 am–11:15 am

Access IT is excited to announce the release of its hosted online version of contractERP at this year’s DHI Conference! contractERP In the Cloud offers the same amazingly rich feature set, integration to estimating and detailing applications, and automation efficiency as our on-premise version, and it now gives you the choice to deploy, manage, and invest in whichever business model best fits your company’s IT strategy.

Come to this session and learn more about contractERP Cloud Computing and the strategic advantages of both deployment and cost management.

AVAWARE TECHNOLOGIES
An Introduction to AVAproject
9:00 am–10:00 am

Interact with a live demonstration of AVAproject. This comprehensive project management system encompasses all aspects of the bidding, detailing, and submission cycle with the most complete door and frame drawing tool available: AVAcad. Over 100 industry-specific catalogs are accessible directly from within the software. Multiply your bid work, create error-free schedules, door machining sheets, shop drawings, automatic calculation of discounts, mark-ups and profit. See why hundreds of distributors have already chosen AVAproject.

An Introduction to AVAproject Fusion
10:15 am–11:15 am

Experience a detailed demonstration of AVAware’s newest product offering: AVAproject Fusion. This powerful data harvesting and reporting tool has raised the standard for data access applications. Comprehensive report authoring tools, the ability to compose data queries in plain English and one of the most robust pivot table generators ever designed are just a few of the indispensable tools offered by this exciting new addition to the AVAware product line.

COMSENSE, INC.
Streamline Your Purchasing with Electronic Order Entry
9:00 am–10:00 am, repeats 10:15 am–11:15 am

Tight margins and increased competition for work are forcing distributors to focus on efficiency and productivity. Save the time you spend re-entering orders on complicated order forms or in vendor applications by using our new electronic order features for wood doors, hollow metal doors and frames, and hardware. Join us to see how you can easily use the information you’ve already entered during detailing to create electronic orders without any re-entry or reconfiguration.

DORMA
The DORMA Customer Experience
9:00 am–10:00 am and 10:15 am–11:15 am
Invitation Only

Join us for an informative session that will introduce our new president, Wil VandeWiel, his vision of the customer experience, and what it means to you and your company.

EMULLION CORPORATION
emullion Corporation Demonstrates "Opening Manager"
9:00 am–10:00 am, repeats 10:15 am–11:15 am

The BIM solution to manage the entire life cycle of the opening, via the Cloud.

GENERAL PARTITIONS
General Partitions' New Estimating and Design Software Class
9:00 am–10:00 am, repeats 10:15 am–11:15 am

Learn how to master the easiest and most useful software program for designing toilet partition layouts. Simply select the layout required, input the measurements, and in seconds, the drawing is completed, and so is your price quote.

GLASSOPOLIS SPECIALTY GLASS
Advances in Glass for the Door Industry
9:00 am–10:00 am, repeats 10:15 am–11:15 am

Learn about advances in specialty glass that affect the door industry. Stay on top of new products that can help you deliver more value to your door and hardware customers. We’ll cover fire- and safety-rated glass, decorative glass, switchable privacy glass, x-ray glass, security glass, and more. Learn about eco-friendly glass that can help green your products and projects. Glassopolis supplies door OEMs and distributors with specialty glass in 10 countries.

HOLLOW METAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (HMMA) DIVISION OF NAAMM
Selection and Usage of Hollow Metal Doors and Frames HMMA-805
9:00 am–10:00 am, repeats 10:15 am–11:15 am

NAAMM/HMMA’s presentation provides a detailed understanding of best practices in selecting and specifying the right hollow metal door and frame constructions targeted to meet projected use, abuse, and job requirements. The presentation reviews HMMA construction specifications, frequency of use, abuse, and selection-based door opening location and the various IBC occupancy groups.

INGERSOLL RAND SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES
Electronic Locks: Grow with CO
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

The CO-Series from Schlage makes it easy to upgrade from traditional mechanical solutions to electronic access control. Join our session to learn more about the typical customers who purchase standalone electronic locks, the considerations that go into making a purchase, and tips to help customers make the right decisions in securing their doors. Experience how easy it is to install the CO-Series from Schlage.

SECURITECH GROUP, INC.
Creating Custom Locking Solutions
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

Welcome to New York City, where Securitech has created custom locking solutions below the ground (for New York City Transit), above the ground (the highest lock in NY at the World Trade Center), and all around the town (including the entrance gates at Yankee Stadium). What is the process of creating a method of locking that meets all of the different users’ needs? Come by and we’ll show you. (Distributors only; no manufacturers, please.)

SOFTWARE FOR HARDWARE
Software for Hardware: Product Overview
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

Learn how to quote a job (including installation labor); prepare a hardware schedule, door/frame schedule, and Division 10 schedule; draw door/frame elevations; prepare shop fabrication reports; and create purchase orders, picking tickets, and packing slips. You will also see how to create sales proposals/orders and much more.

STANLEY SECURITY SOLUTIONS
Advances in Behavioral Healthcare Locking
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

Meeting the needs of mental health wards and ensuring patient safety requires continuous improvement and creation. See the latest locking and alarm solutions, and learn how they help prevent patient suicides. Samples of the industry-leading solutions will be displayed and reviewed.

STREK-O DOORS
Imagination Brought to Wood: Visionary Series – Specialty and Custom Flush Wood Doors
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

The Visionary Series is a lineup of hand-crafted specialty inlay veneer faces that encompasses true craftsmanship and helps achieve your design strategy. Since quick lead times are a requirement in today’s industry, we’ll also explain our Sprinter Program, which allows you to specify the ship date. A gift will be given to each person attending.

SUPA DOORS, INC.
Latest Trends in Hospitality Door Design
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

Presented by Ian Fisher, President of Supa Doors, Inc.

Become a resource to your clients and owners’ reps by understanding what the latest hospitality trends are and how to provide a “Valu-Lux” product mix (luxury look and feel at value-engineered pricing). As occupancy/room rates begin to rise and major brands pressure hotels to modernize, the hospitality industry is in the beginning phases of an upswing in renovations. Learn from a Marriott- and Hilton-approved manufacturer how to capitalize on this growing opportunity.

TOAD, LLC
Software Tools Every Distributor Can Use
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

This is an introduction to the TOAD “Software Toolset.” See a demonstration of our innovative new use of QR/barcodes to quote, sell, and detail hardware. We will demonstrate our Hardware Configurator (integrated into several industry software solutions), as well as C.R.T. (Catalog Replacement Tool), DoorDesigner, and Add-Libs (a tool for managing PDF libraries of cut-sheets, warranties, LEED info, and templates). See how our tools can be used to compliment any detailing or business system.

TRIMCO
CuVerro Antimicrobial Copper: An Approach that Works
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

This session will outline the health benefits that result from the use of CuVerro antimicrobial copper. The session will detail the exhaustive testing that has been performed around the world to prove claims that these metals, when used on touch surfaces, kill harmful microbes in any public environment, especially hospitals. Attendees will learn that nearly all infectious microbes are killed in two hours or less. The session will also feature a guest speaker from the Copper Development Association.

WINDOW AND DOOR MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (WDMA)
New WDMA Architectural Wood Door Standards
9:00am – 10:00am, repeats 10:15am – 11:15am

Architectural wood flush and stile and rail doors are part of a superior environment. Now there are improved standards to guide their specification: WDMA I.S. 1A-2011, Industry Specification for Architectural Wood Flush Doors, and WDMA I.S. 6A-2011, Industry Specification for Architectural Stile and Rail Doors. This session highlights what has changed in the updated standards and describes the differences among the wood door standards in the marketplace.

 

Exhibitors: Interested in participating in the Industry Marketplace? Please contact Julie Walter, at 703.766.7036. (Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.)