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Great co-operation between System TM and Stiles Machinery Inc. on the North American market The partnership between System TM and Stiles Machinery Inc. has existed for many years and has resulted in many satisfied customers. Cascade Wood Products is one of the companies that recently invested in a system solution designed in close co-operation with System TM and Stiles Machinery Inc. Cascade Wood Products, Inc. Cascade Wood Products, Inc. has been crafting and designing wood mouldings for more than 60 years. Their products include door- and window frames, sash and mouldings. The company has its roots in a partnership, which was formed in 1949. Since then Cascade Wood Products has continued to grow and today the company consists of three divisions.
scanning results, and decided to visit a number of reference lines in North America. The combination of the scanner test and seeing System TM lines in operation, convinced Cascade Wood Products that a system solution from System TM/Microtec was the right choice. Through a close co-operation, a system solution was designed, capable of living up to the production requirements and needs of Cascade Wood Products.
Great co-operation It was the North American partner of System TM, Stiles Machinery Inc., that initiated the first contact to Cascade Wood Products. After the first visit, Cascade Wood Products was invited to the Stiles facilities for a demonstration of a System TM and Microtec demo line. The demonstration was very successful and Cascade was happy with the
The Z-Solution The system solution consists of 3 optimizing cross-cut saws model Opti-Kap 5003 and a Microtec scanner model Goldeneye 502, designed as a Z-solution. The workpieces comes from an existing ripsaw in random widths. An operator has the opportunity to trim bowed or low quality workpieces, to ensure optimal front end detection before entering the Microtec scanner. The random
widths of the workpieces are measured and automatically centered before going through the scanner. This ensures an optimal scanning result. After scanning, the workpieces of random widths are collected in batches and transported to three optimizing cross-cut saws model Opti-Kap 5003. An adjustable side fence ensure that the random width workpieces are fed into the saw, one at a time. The cut workpieces are marked via a printer according to their orientation, qualities, lengths and widths. The three sorting lines after the Opti-Kap 5003 saws, are equipped with 20 kickers where the cut workpieces are sorted for re-rip, to boxes for finger joint material or to manual sorting for long fixed lengths. The co-operation between System TM, Stiles Machinery Inc., Microtec and Cascade Wood Products has been excellent, and we are very positive that the designed system solution will live up to all the production requirements.
OPTI-KAP 5003
Optimizing cross-cut saws
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The optimizing solution from System TM consists of the following: Microtec Goldeneye 502 multi-sensor scanner including x-ray •
3 x optimizing cross-cut saws model Opti-Kap 5003
MICROTEC GOLDENEYE 502 SCANNER Detection of defects and quality for cross-cut
System TMs optimizing cross-cut line: Production:
Moulding and millwork components
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The sorting part of the line from System TM
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