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March 2022 #14272 Page #54
Increasing Efficiency Gains From Plant Optimization Edmond Lim, P.Eng. LimTek Solutions Inc.
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y January article, Optimize Your Saw with a Lumber PickLine, focused on “Feeding the Beast!” and replacing inefficient, expensive, and laborintensive “forklift lumber picking” with our improved material handling system. Then, my February article, Threading the Needle with a High Rise Lumber PickLine, showed how loading dock “constraints” are no match for us! With the right equipment, everything is possible and any plant can upgrade to our optimization system. So far, I’ve been focusing on the big benefits – optimization in lumber picking and superior cutting with top-of-the-line saws. But additional benefits are produced by our systems, and they deserve some attention too.
Efficiency Plus Social Distancing Every time you make an improvement to your process organization, you gain both direct and indirect benefits. Consider these examples.
1. Lumber carts: No need for lumber catchers manning the stations, because our system will cut-bytruss and batch cut at the same time, saving labor and streamlining your workforce’s actions as well as their interactions.
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