Landmark
Wood Products
| COMPANY/LOCATION: |
Landmark Wood Products, English, Indiana |
| PRODUCT: |
Furniture grade lumber |
| YEARS IN BUSINESS: |
13 |
| EMPLOYEES: |
10 |
| SITUATION: |
While looking for a way to automate a portion of their sawmill operation,
Landmark Wood Products contacted the Indiana Business Modernization and
Technology Corporation (BMTC), a state-funded initiative that matches manufacturing
technical assistance needs to available expertise, and was referred by
the BMTC to the Oak Ridge Centers for Manufacturing Technology (ORCMT). |
| PROJECT: |
The company wanted to automate their system in order to use an optical
scanner to enable automatic milling out of the largest usable piece of
the core of a log, thereby increasing the yield from the log. Engineers
from ORCMT worked with Landmark to determine what kind of optical system
would best serve their needs and made recommendations to the company regarding
the system they might select and use. |
| RESULTS: |
Landmark now has selected and is installing their new system. It will
allow the operator, during the time when the highest grade lumber has been
cut from the log, to push a button for the system to select the largest
remaining saleable piece of lumber and mill out that specific piece of
wood.
Tim Smith, vice president of sales and marketing, said when the system
is fully implemented it will save the company more than $12,000 per year.
"We were extremely satisfied with the technical assistance from ORCMT.
We really didn't even know if what we wanted to do could be done. They
showed us that it could. Their work was very in-depth, and we were very
well satisfied," he said. |
Technical assistances provided to the private sector by the Oak Ridge
Centers for Manufacturing Technology (ORCMT) and its manufacturing extension
partners throughout the United States.
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