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August 2023 #15289 Page #46
Feed Any Component Saw with a Lumber PickLine id you know that any existing automated saws output can now be boosted by switching from a forklift lumber picking process to that of a Lumber PickLine? That’s right, we have proven that a Lumber PickLine will boost the cutting output of all the major automated linear saws out there, simply by recapturing saw idle time.
Edmond Lim, P.Eng. LimTek Solutions Inc.
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In fact, my previous articles have highlighted plants with the vast assortment of saw brands that will benefit from the use of a Lumber PickLine. For example, the plant featured in January 2022 has a MiTek Blade, “Optimize Your Saw with a Lumber Pick Line”; July 2022 involves the TCT XL, “ROI with No ‘Space’ Fear Factor”; September 2022 has the Monet DeRobo, “Incremental CapEx ROI and Plant Tours”; and the May 2023 article is based on an Alpine ALS, “Incremental CapEx and Accelerated ROI.” Automated component saws are notorious for lost saw idle time, and that is why we can put Lumber PickLines in to feed automated component saws including MiTek CyberSaw/EasySet series, Alpine AutoMill, Monet Desauw, Auto Omni, and others to boost cutting output. All automated component saws can setup within 6 to 14 seconds, and most can easily cut lumber at the rate of 10 boards per minute. On paper, this is more cutting output than a linear saw. However, most truss plants feeding their component saws by forklift will not send a quantity of 3 or less of the same truss to the component saw. But with a Lumber PickLine, a component saw can be turned into a “cut-by-truss” saw and a batch cutting saw – the best of both sawing output worlds, and a result you cannot achieve with a linear saw. With a Lumber PickLine, more trusses can be grouped in a batch to collate and maximize truss table output. “No more mini batches,” which all started with the lumber stretching and/or lumber optimizing capabilities of linear saws which increased cut-piece throughput and simplified the feeding of lumber to linear saws by just stocking long lengths in front of the linear saw. The “lazy” lumber picking was at the expense of truss production as “lumberoptimized pieces” results in unorganized lumber at the tables.
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