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Don’t Forget! You Saw it in the
November 2017 #10220 Page #6
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his year’s Show, some 45 years after my first, brought some amazing revelations. The most awesome sight was an actual working truss plant on the Show floor. The most intriguing experience was being transported inside a robotic plant. And, the most welcome sounds were good economic projections specifically targeted to our business. MiTek’s truss plant brought before our eyes automation of the entire assembly process: picking, cutting, and delivering parts to truss tables without a human touch, via our Component Delivery System (CDS). Unseen, but essential to its success, is its ‘brain’, the advanced shop floor software, MiTek’s Virtual Plant (MVP). When Larry and Sheryl Dix, owners of Apex Truss, watched from the elevated observation platform, they were awestruck by this display, and its promise for the future.
Trussmatic’s virtual reality experience took us to Finland, via VR goggles, and stationed us right next to their fearsome robotic assembly machines, a viewpoint we could never safely attain in their plant. Robotics is now being deployed in the U.S., and by the next BCMC we will know much more about its applicability to our business.
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