Furniture industry
Sawmill industry
Solid wood processing
Collection and disposal of waste wood
Cutting saw and pallet handling
Edge banding machine
Finger jointing
Infeed and profile measurement
Log sorting
Planing and profiling
Robot handling and intermediate buffer
Sorting timber
Storage and handling
Storage and transport
Stripping veneer
Throughfeed drilling technology and CNC machining center
Varnishing machine
Wide-belt sanding machine
Width cutting
Overview
Achieving more with intelligent sensors
Trends & news
Cutting-edge technology - SicoCam with SICK AppSpace
Costly manual measurement of raw chipboards is a thing of the past. The SicoCam inline board measurement system from Siempelkamp Logistics & Service GmbH now measures wooden composite boards in a continuous cycle. It also includes four programmable InspectorP65x high-performance cameras from SICK and SICK AppSpace. They supply measured values for calculating the board size and adjusting the saws. This increases the quality of the manufactured boards, decreases the amount of rejections, and boosts productivity. It also improves workplace safety.
Stacking always results in chippings
Sawdust and wood chips make the use of conventional safety sensors more difficult in automated wood-processing plants. Sensors are nonetheless expected to perform their tasks in terms of operational safety with both reliability and precision. One of the leading parquet manufacturers in Europe, Bauwerk Parquet, therefore uses the microScan3 safety laser scanner to make their stacking robot safe. Its innovative safeHDDM® scanning technology makes it immune to wood chips.
Challenges
Safety
The harsh environments in the wood industry, where flying wood chips, splinters and sawdust pose a particular challenge, demand reliable, intelligent and flexible safety solutions. With its wide range of safety technology, SICK is able to guarantee the highest possible operational safety. SICK also offers a comprehensive range of services including advice, assistance during commissioning, as well as training and education. These help optimize productivity in the wood industry, and avoid machine downtimes.
Quality control
The natural properties of wood, and the fast and interconnected production processes require a broad product portfolio of object localization, identification and measurement devices. Reliability is an important requirement for each of these different processes, which poses a highly challenging task for quality control. SICK's distance sensors, 2D and 3D vision sensors, and vision systems support nearly every type of object monitoring.
Track and trace
SICK's innovative solutions for material identification and material tracking make it possible to implement a transparent flow of information and material along the entire value-adding chain in the wood-processing industry. This enables a wide variety of manufacturing processes to be synchronized, thereby allowing individualized and networked production in fully automated production lines.
Flexible automation
The trend towards small batch sizes and meeting individual customer requirements necessitates flexible and also automated production lines. The intelligent and communicative sensors from SICK make this kind of customized manufacturing possible in a mass production environment. By using state-of-the-art sensor technologies and fully integrating them into the control level, the machine production processes can be configured down to the sensor level.