In-Line Truss Production Starts With Lumber Picking Edmond Lim, P.Eng. This month, we get a sneak peek at a greenfield truss plant that drank from the same punch bowl as some established truss plants to Feed the Beast! Previous articles have highlighted existing truss plants that have literally banked on Enventek’s proven in-line lean manufacturing system to... Read More December 2022 Issue #14281 Page 54
How Panels Plus Nailed It This Year Tim Grahn This has been a very busy year for Panels Plus with shipments up 47% from 2021. I’m glad to see all the work out there and I’m grateful for the customers that have asked Panels Plus to help them increase their production with our equipment. As we look back on this year and look... Read More December 2022 Issue #14281 Page 70
Reap the Rewards and Labor Savings From Wall Lines Wendy Boyd From the BCMC 2022 event, in which we displayed our Framing Line and several other pieces of machinery, it became apparent that our customers are hunting for ways to save labor and costs – which includes producing wall frames for their markets. We were overwhelmed in the Spida booth with... Read More November 2022 Issue #14280 Page 19
Labor Shortages Worse Than Most Understand and Automation is Not Going to Be the Cure-All Solution Todd Drummond Time and again, executives state they are having problems finding enough qualified people to staff all the needed positions within their company. The truth is that this problem will get much worse, and you need to understand why to fix it. TDC has found that companies with the best employee... Read More November 2022 Issue #14280 Page 24
A Weekend Install and a Packers Home Game Edmond Lim, P.Eng. The majority of our machinery installs are requested to be done over a weekend, usually starting on Friday. A weekend install requires key personnel to give up their weekend in order to minimize production interruption. The weekend of September 30, 2022 in Green Bay, WI was a particularly... Read More November 2022 Issue #14280 Page 52
How Important is Optimization Rob Bellian Today, linear saw technology provides unmatched efficiency with profound differences to productivity, service, and reliability. An automated linear saw can also reduce the lumber cut waste by batching and combining different cuts of various pieces known as lumber optimization. So what is the one... Read More November 2022 Issue #14280 Page 60
BCMC 2022—What an Awesome Event Wendy Boyd Throwing a show together is no easy feat—organization on this scale doesn’t just happen, rather it takes months and months of planning to have it evolve from planning to a show. Spida is grateful to SBCA for the outstanding event that was BCMC 2022. What a throwback to BCMCs of... Read More October 2022 Issue #14279 Page 19
The Most Automated, Most Toured Truss Plant Edmond Lim, P.Eng. In my humble opinion, since 2014, United Truss of Innisfil, Ontario, Canada has unofficially held the titles of “The most automated truss plant” in North America and “The most visited truss plant in North America.” United Truss was the un-named but featured truss plant in... Read More October 2022 Issue #14279 Page 50
A Model of a Show at BCMC Rob Bellian By all accounts, it was a bumper year for BCMC 2022, and we were glad to see the significant increase in interest from not only attendees but also exhibitors across the industry. We appreciated the number of enquiries we had on our Direct Delivery Solution and there was significant interest... Read More October 2022 Issue #14279 Page 60
From Minneapolis to Columbus with Eide Eide Machinery Sales Team Thanks for the awesome show! We’ve just returned to Minneapolis after attending BCMC 2022 in Columbus – and we can’t thank you enough for visiting our booths and reminding us of all the terrific people who work in this great industry. Over the past 95 years, our company has... Read More October 2022 Issue #14279 Page 66