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December 2022 #14281 Page #54
In-Line Truss Production Starts With Lumber Picking his month, we get a sneak peek at a greenfield truss plant that drank from the same punch bowl as some established truss plants to Feed the Beast! Previous articles have highlighted existing truss plants that have literally banked on Enventek’s proven in-line lean manufacturing system to power continued profitable growth.
Edmond Lim, P.Eng. LimTek Solutions Inc.
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We began our journey with United Truss in 2014 and, as my October 2022 articles attests, it has since become “The Most Automated, Most Toured Truss Plant” in North America. February 2022’s “Threading the Needle with a High Rise Lumber PickLine” article describes how an existing truss plant has overcome its extreme building and yard constraints by investing in our complete system from picking lumber to assembling trusses on their existing tables. S e p t e m b e r 2 0 2 2 ’s a r t i c l e , “Incremental CapEx ROI and Plant Tours,” recaps R&K’s incremental CapEx investments starting in 2014, culminating in a triple Lumber PickLine, two autofeeding RetroC saws, 200 autofill carts, and PlantOne TVs over all truss jigs.
Here we have an early drone snapshot of United Edge Structural Components of Smiths Falls, ON (no relation to United Truss, Innisfil, ON). The truss and panel plant will be fed lumber from bunks of lumber on the 150 ft lumber PickLine, collated onto 44 ft of live deck autofeeding the Amazing RetroC with 56 autofill lumber carts. No lumber catchers required. It is a total plant two-person sawing operation. Continued next page
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