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=** Grading on-line - Timber grading on a mobile phone**=

**RTO**
McElvenny Ware Pty Ltd trading as Workspace Training toc

**Contact**
David McElvenny david@workspacetraining.com.au

**Category**
Empowering learners

**Business Partner**
Hurford Hardwood, Tuncester, NSW

Executive summary
This project developed a mobile phone program that allows a set of timber grading rules to be loaded onto the phone and accessed on its screen. The program provides graphics illustrating different defects and characteristics, definitions and methods of measurement, as well as limitations for three hardwood flooring grades specified in Australian Standard 2796.

The two main advantages of this application to the timber grader are:
 * 1) Portability – allowing the user to access the information anywhere, as long as they have their phone with them. This is particularly valuable to mill workers who are learning the principles of grading. It is also useful for sales representatives, flooring inspectors and quality control officers who need to check grade requirements on the job.
 * 2) Ease of use – providing a simple navigation system, line drawn graphics and plain English text to present the complex data found in the Australian Standards

For more information about this program and to download a copy to your mobile phone, go to: [] 