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 Issue.]
For seven consecutive decades, Triad wall panel and component nailing machines have led the industry in meeting the demands and needs of builders in the United States, Canada, and around the world. Today, Triad continues to meet the ever-growing needs of today’s builders by providing machinery and production systems that lower labor costs, give higher production and productivity, control material costs, and produce high-quality finished products while utilizing the latest state-of-the-art engineering and decades of proven reliability and experience.
Our latest introduction, the Triad Ai Sub-Component Nailer, is designed to assemble standard wall sub-components such as headers, jacks, corners, tees, els, beam pockets and stud-packs. It is suitable for component widths between 3” and 14 7/8”, heights of 3 ½” to 12”, and lengths of 12” to 16’.
And how does artificial intelligence (Ai) apply? It’s part of this machine’s DNA! A machine-learning algorithm is at work in the Sub-Component Nailer, ensuring that its operation is effective and efficient.
Importantly, the operator doesn’t waste time telling the machine what kind of sub-component is being built, or what size lumber is being used, or what nail pattern to utilize once the machine is trained. Component type and size are automatically determined by the Ai algorithm. The user-trained nailing protocol is executed once the sub-component is determined. The material is fed through automatically, allowing the operator to prepare the next sub-component. When finished, the component may exit one of three ways and is user configured.
This machine allows companies to utilize either batch-building or Just-In-Time (JIT). Finished sub-components can be sent left or right onto material holder trays or powered down-line to the rough opening assembly area.
Triad’s Ai Sub-Component Nailer is constructed from heavy-duty sheet and structural steel, and with only utilizing two nail guns, it has a foot-print that fits nicely in small, medium, or large production shops.
The unit is not software dependent, so it can be utilized in conjunction with any design program being used, and it is not sensor dependent but utilizes true Ai to make production more efficient for any size operation.
We invite you to see for yourself how Triad’s Ai Sub-Component Nailer will change the game in your wall panel production too!