Shop and Moulding solution, above: The Moulding board is limited in width because its scale would round up to 9, dropping the yield below 2 / 3; the longer Moulding rip is constrained by a knot on the top side. The bottom rail allows an initial crosscut so the door cuttings don’ t have to line up across its opposite sides.
was installed. Bob Presley with WB Company did the engineering to fit all the new equipment into the existing tight location.
Mill personnel involved with the project were Rodney Krogh, Mark Krogh, project management; Ron Haviland and Lonnie Smith, sawmill and planer QCs; and Jerry Nicholson working on the mechanical end. On USNR’ s side involvement was primarily Jeff Falk, capital sales; Ben Whitaker, project manager; Shawn Devantier, optimization project manager; Bob Arnold, sawmill grade scanning product manager; Don Reeder, optimization software; and Jason Sells, controls.
Training was held at USNR’ s facility at Eugene, Oregon about a month prior to startup. Three Evergreen personnel were trained extensively on the MillExpert suite as well as maintenance and troubleshooting on the scanning hardware. During installation and commissioning further training was undertaken.
Continuous improvement
With new products and new markets on the horizon, Rodney Krogh isn’ t finished improving his operation just yet. He plans to continue to employ more advanced technology to refine his process even further.“ In the near future we will be looking at optimizing with BioVision at the sawmill trimmer to do a better job of sorting out our rough products for grade to improve overall drying, and install USNR’ s Transverse High Grader( THG) in the Shop planer to grade all of our Shop products.” The BioVision scan frame features BioLuma 2900LV sensors positioned above and below the scanner transfer. Integrated LED lighting effectively illuminates the wood’ s characteristics for high resolution, highly accurate visual data collection.
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