by admin | Mar 5, 2024 | Cultivation, Manufacturing, Retail
When you spend a lot of time in cannabis facilities, you see a lot – Great decisions, short-sighted decisions, over-built facilities, under-built facilities – the whole gamut. It’s easy to walk into a facility and immediately start focusing on...
by Brian Staffa | Feb 5, 2024 | Cultivation, Manufacturing, Retail
Security is of course vital in a cannabis operation; for employee comfort and safety, to protect highly valuable products, to remain compliant, and to prevent diversion. But I’ve been in too many facilities where security is overbearing and whether as a customer or an...
by Brian Staffa | Oct 15, 2023 | Manufacturing
There’s a science to adding or installing vape cart manufacturing into your cannabis or hemp facility. It’s not as easy as allocating space. You must first consider your business model which then drives your operational design which can then inform your...
by Brian Staffa | Aug 22, 2023 | Cultivation, Manufacturing
Failure to consider and give proper attention to operational design often explains why companies with cutting edge facilities and well written SOPs still end up unable to compete or to combat price compression once the market saturates. What is operational design as...
by Brian Staffa | Jun 8, 2023 | Manufacturing
This article is intended for the investor who may be investing in a new cannabis cultivation facility or for the executive team who is in the early stages of design and build out of their new cannabis manufacturing and extraction facility. For the purposes of this...