My January article, Optimize Your Saw with a Lumber PickLine, focused on “Feeding the Beast!” and replacing inefficient, expensive, and labor-intensive “forklift lumber picking” with our improved material handling system. Then, my February article, Threading the Needle with a High Rise Lumber PickLine, showed how loading dock “constraints” are no match for us! With the right equipment, everything is possible and any plant can upgrade to our optimization system.
So far, I’ve been focusing on the big benefits – optimization in lumber picking and superior cutting with top-of-the-line saws. But additional benefits are produced by our systems, and they deserve some attention too.
Efficiency Plus Social Distancing
Every time you make an improvement to your process organization, you gain both direct and indirect benefits. Consider these examples. [For photos, see PDF or View in Full Issue.]
- Lumber carts: No need for lumber catchers manning the stations, because our system will cut-by-truss and batch cut at the same time, saving labor and streamlining your workforce’s actions as well as their interactions.
- Collated plate distribution: Just like dealing plates, no group sorting nor picking of plates at the table streamlines your production, speeds up your process, and minimizes unnecessary foot traffic.
- Big screen projection: Not only is movement minimized by eliminating the need to share paperwork, you also eliminate the huddle around the paperwork, which makes social distancing even easier to achieve.
Remember, time is money, so solving your legacy inefficiencies presents an opportunity for your plant to increase production, save time, and save money by eliminating constraints. Whether you’re thinking about upgrading one saw or upgrading your entire material handling process, we can design a custom solution that’s right for you.
Contact us when you are ready to take your organization to the next level: Edmond.Lim@LimTekSolutions.com, 416-888-4457 (cell), https://limteksolutions.com/.