Does this sound familiar? A truss fabricator makes the decision to invest in their business to increase capacity. They buy the latest and greatest automated saw, automated jigging system, or even a projection system. The new machinery is guaranteed to increase throughput versus what they are using today. Two months into the new equipment, throughput is equal to or only slightly improved.
The bottom line is that any piece of new equipment requires an assessment and likely an adjustment to any production operation. Enabling you to make those decisions, TrueBuild® Batch gives you the flexibility and an easy-to-understand interface to adjust your cutting and assembly output to any equipment combination. From saws to tables to projections systems, TrueBuild® Batch can make your operations more efficient and leverage your equipment investments.
Over the next few weeks, I will dive into the functionality of TrueBuild® Batch and highlight the key features that will help truss fabricators adapt to their ever-changing environment. In this first installment, we are going to discuss saw setup.
TrueBuild® Batch can communicate with the most popular saw brands on the market today. It can even drive the European robotic systems that seem to be gaining traction across the globe. The fabricator creates a scheme in the software that allows total customization of primary saws, secondary saws, file output paths, etc. Essentially, you are replicating your saw department in the software.
This gives you total control of how your material flows, how you want pieces sorted, even what cuts you make on a specific piece of machinery. TrueBuild® Batch allows you to run your plant your way. If you want to cut members under a specified length on a different piece of equipment, do so with confidence. Batch allows the flexibility of multiple resources working together for maximum efficiency.
TrueBuild® Batch even offers the ability to customize cut orientation for any given piece of equipment. Flip orientation left to right to maximize saw efficiency. Control long-side orientation to suit your specific cutting resource. All of this comes with easy-to-understand graphics and crisp icons to offer ease of operation for any fabricator.
In our next installment, we will have a look at table and projection setup. If you have any questions or want to learn more about this or any other piece of the TrueBuild® suite of software solutions, please contact me directly any time or visit www.eaglemetal.com.