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April 2023 #15285 Page #47
A Tailor-Made Lean Lumber Picking Solution
Edmond Lim, P.Eng. LimTek Solutions Inc.
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he implementation of a Lumber PickLine is a quick study in lean manufacturing tailor-made for each component plant’s building constraints and saws. A Lumber PickLine can semi-automatically feed any linear saw or any component saw. A saw that is fed lumber from a PickLine is a just-in-time pull system.
The pull system components of the PickLine are shown in the image. The Sawyer pulls lumber from the “17’ Sawyers Deck” which the Sawyer operates independently to feed the saw. The Picker fills the “17’ Pickers Deck” by following the lumber picklist using a tablet and dropping the lumber into the “Linear Pick Line” chain trough when the PickLine light flashes green carrying the lumber across the 131’ chain trough up the “8 ft Indexed Incline.” When the Pickers Deck is filled with lumber, the chain trough stops and the light flashes yellow signaling the Picker to pause lumber picking.
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