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Wood frame construction — automated and customized production

Holzbindervoss was created and is still active today. New areas of activity In 2010, beam production was added to the production of nail plate trusses, which involved investment in a beam processing system — today [...] wood frame construction taking up a production area of 1000 m². Based on sales, the nail plate truss area is the largest area, producing 50% of the sales. Beam production and wood frame construction each [...] Ernst-Otto Rönnau saw great potential in the company and decided to expand the areas of activity in production to have a wider portfolio. At the same time, he wanted to stop the assembly work at the construction

Fully automated handling increases productivity

thus learning to develop their products in a process-oriented manner. We spoke to Managing Director Willem Flier. About a year ago you invested in a WEINMANN production plant. Why did you make this decision [...] completely new production line. One of them was that we wanted to increase our capacity in order to meet the boom in the housing market. Another was that the modern technology in the new production plant will [...] partial solutions. Have you divided production into a separate roof line and wall line, or do you produce all element types on both lines? Flier: We have two production lines with two integrated WALLTEQ

Automated element production in batch size 1

push their production capacity to the limit because of record demand. "Small" automation As a result, the self-built production table in St. Johann—initially intended primarily for the production of dorm [...] on bridge. Christoph Bächle: "We have a high level of quality and our production is about 30 percent faster than manual production, even with the same number of employees. This means that we can now easily [...] Impact on smaller businesses. This push relates first and foremost to the automation of element production. The key arguments in favor of automation are usually better quality management and greater flexibility

Modern methods of construction increases productivity

really that can only be achieved on a production line, like any product. Why should house building be any different to making a car? A production line built product is far superior in achieving those quality [...] for this type of work. “In terms of our productivity we are now approaching the stage where we will be able to produce one complete house a day off the production line. Currently we’re at three a week, [...] to redefine the standards for the quality design and manufacture of modular buildings. “All our products are built to the highest standards to meet individual specifications and all relevant standards

2 birds with one stone — cutting and element production in one machine

reduced and rapid data flow along the production chain is increasingly established. This requires fewer individual machines and greater consistency in data. In CNC production in particular, the hardware and [...] combines cutting with element production and bundles both onto a single machine," Freiermuth explains. "The new system significantly increases our flexibility in production. On the element tables for example [...] is first broken down into the individual production parts. By using an intelligent processing recognition, the interface automatically creates all the production data for trimming contours, bore holes,

HOMAG UK provides Trade CNC the helping hand for increased production

timber work into great products. We design, fully assemble and arrange the complete logistics of their products – we offer the full package.” Setting the stall for a productive future… “2014 was a milestone [...] expenditure only in hope that it would keep up with the production levels we intend to achieve. Even though our original machine is still in production, we decided to invest in a brand new CNC processing centre [...] 10 foot sheets increasing our scale in production dramatically. The introduction of a 14-place tool changer and FLEX-5 axis took the flexibility of our production processes to new levels, achieving and

Auckland-based TimberLab Solutions is Australasia’s largest, most experienced, internationally recognised provider of customised structural engineered timber products.

companies and we are now working with Glulam, Laminated Veneer Lumber and other structural timber products. Q: TimberLab has been involved in numerous timber engineered projects all over the world. What

Increased production flow with the Weeke Vantech 480 B 

Ambition 1220C edgebander, these targets seem to be realistic. RMW Joinery has increased productivity and production flow. “The two machines are both great. The more research I did, the more I was sure that [...] such as RMW. Cutting down assembly times and therefore, labour costs are essential to increase productivity. “It’s hard to find good workers these days and we got too busy so we had to compensate the workload

More profit through special products

It's our goal to produce innovative and superior products, in order to being able to stand out against the most competing market segment, the low-cost products. Our old beam processing center was already 20 [...] enterprise is among the largest timber house element producers and employs 40 people. No more low-cost production Business manager Peter Lehmann, who is in charge of the finances, explains that the company mainly [...] third of the sales volume results from house renovation. Business competition in the field element production is very tough in Switzerland and beats down the prices", says Peter Lehmann. We have invested a

Furniture production in China: OPPEIN inspires its customers

beginning of modern kitchen production in China. In OPPEIN's modern production halls you will find completely networked batch size 1 systems, as well as individual machines for production. The Chinese manufacturer