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Automated and optimized planing at Scierie Manic !
Top priorities: maintenance, refining sorting and fast flow
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Our training is our pledge of productivity
When production started in 1998, Scierie Manic was a wood factory in a green state. The turnkey concept of Comact , an impressive technological realization ,was responsible for the training of 90% of the employees that had never set foot in a sawmill. Other companies which tried to establish high technology sawmills in this area discovered at their own expense that technology alone is not a gaurantee for success.
Local community colleges collaborated for the required training in grinding and for the mechanics improvement. The Comact turnkey supplier undertook the training relating to optimization systems.
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An impressive production
The predominant result is the regular and constant flow of logs in the mill, due to the renewal of the sawlog inventory in the backyard. Once barked and sorted, the logs move on a high-speed conveyor which feeds a single line made of a Comact double length infeed (DLI), followed by a canter twin also by Comact. Then the logs go through the Comact Optimisation C1-Scan true shape scanner to determine the rotation of the log and the breakdown, then they are swept again by a scanner at the infeed to verify their positioning. Processing an average log of 0.120m3 per section of 16,5 feet, the sawline must reach a constant production of 2,6 to 2,7 million bdft per week with less than 80 productive hours. This is an impressive result for a single length sawmill.
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After the primary breakdown, the side boards move towards a Comact ScanEdger three-saw optimized edger, whereas the cants are put aside, scanned by a true-shape scanner and positioned while moving by a lineal feed table toward the Comact curve sawing gang edger .
Automated and optimized planing
All the sawmill sections before the kilns are equipped by Comact, with an optimized multiple saw trimmer which feeds a 60 bin sorting line. The planer mill is highly automated and optimized, although it is not equipped yet with an optimized sorter.
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Source:
Scott Jamieson
Opérations Forestières et de Scieries
June 2003 |
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