Kadant Carmanah Design, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. launches three advanced vision systems designed to help Oriented Strand Board (OSB) producers increase production rates and improve strand quality in the wood room, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
The ARGUS-FMS™ fines measurement system, developed in collaboration with FPInnovations, continuously scans the strander outfeed conveyor to provide real-time fines percentages for every cutting pass.
According to Lorne Fardy, product development manager for Kadant Carmanah, “By constantly scanning all strands produced, the FMS greatly reduces the error rates inherent with manual strand sampling. The steady flow of data allows OSB manufacturers to make better production decisions both in the wood room and in downstream processes.”
The ARGUS-LDO™ log deck optimizer and ARGUS-LPO™ load pocket optimizer provide data on the volume of logs staged on the log deck and in the load pocket of the batch. Together, these devices help operators increase strander fill-rates and wood room production. Additionally, the data produced by the systems provide new performance metrics for benchmarking wood room operations.
Kadant Carmanah Design, located in Surrey, B.C. Canada, designs and manufactures equipment for the panel and engineered wood products, pulp and paper, and sawmill industries.
