Batch Cutting vs. Cut By Truss Edmond Lim, P.Eng. What weighs more, a pound of muscle or a pound of fat? In truss jargon, the question would be: What produces more trusses, 200 pieces of batch cutting or 200 pieces of cut-by-truss cutting? The answer, of course, is that both cutting methods produce the same number of trusses. So what’s... Read More March 2024 Issue #16296 Page 44
Mistake-Proof Your Process with Must-Have Communication Features Todd Drummond Last month’s article, Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) for Enhancing Performance to Ensure ROI Retention, is a natural lead-in to Poka-Yoke. In lean terminology, roughly translated from Japanese, Poka-Yoke means to mistake-proof the process. A more accurate translation could be... Read More January 2024 Issue #16294 Page 24
Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) for Enhancing Performance to Ensure ROI Retention Todd Drummond Over twenty years ago, I struck out to help companies improve their operations through best practices based on lean manufacturing and industrial engineering practices. Helping hundreds of companies improve their operations has been an extremely rewarding experience. After all of the 35 years I... Read More December 2023 Issue #15293 Page 24
Better Than 10% Labor Savings Proven Method Endorsement By Scott Arquilla Todd Drummond For years, TDC has promoted the idea of using reliable estimated work minutes (R.E., S.U., Man-Minutes) for scheduling, pricing, and understanding true labor efficiencies. The most important aspect of properly developed work minutes is that you can create a short scheduling time standards... Read More November 2023 Issue #15292 Page 25
The Game Changer for Wall Panels—Triad’s Ai Sub-Component Nailer TRIAD / Merrick Machine Company Team If you were able to attend this fall’s Building Component Manufacturers Conference (BCMC) in Indianapolis, then you may have gotten your first look at the latest game changer in wall panel manufacturing—Triad’s Ai Sub-Component Nailer. [For photos, See PDF or View in Full... Read More November 2023 Issue #15292 Page 54
TDC’s Educational Session on Component Manufacturing Operations Todd Drummond If you were unable to attend my educational session at BCMC, Component Manufacturing Should Not Be Operated as an LBM Supplier by TDC, or if you attended and still have questions, I invite you to download the presentation, now available as a PDF. During the presentation, we discussed what... Read More October 2023 Issue #15291 Page 27
Pick, Cut, Build—Talking Shop at BCMC 2023 Edmond Lim, P.Eng. We had non-stop traffic in the Enventek booth at BCMC 2023 in Indianapolis. Enventek (Dave and Larry Dalson, Michael Bell) and LimTek (Ed Lim) are the only turnkey in-line automation suppliers for existing truss plants. We are gaining installed base momentum as word is spreading about our proven... Read More October 2023 Issue #15291 Page 48
Component Manufacturing Should Not Be Operated as an LBM Supplier Todd Drummond As an industry veteran who has attended BCMC for many decades, I’m very pleased to be presenting an educational session on Tuesday, September 19th at 1:00 pm — Component Manufacturing Should Not Be Operated as an LBM Supplier. In this session, I will call upon my 20 years of... Read More September 2023 Issue #15290 Page 26
Let’s Talk Shop at BCMC! Edmond Lim, P.Eng. At BCMC 2023 Indianapolis, let’s talk shop and start planning your next incremental process re-organization or complete plant makeover. From simple process improvements to extreme plant makeovers, we have the expertise, proven solutions, technology, and field personnel to get the job done... Read More September 2023 Issue #15290 Page 66
Feed Any Component Saw with a Lumber PickLine Edmond Lim, P.Eng. Did 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,... Read More August 2023 Issue #15289 Page 46