Automation & Electronics can provide a number of edger control systems complete with  setworks, EdgerView operator interface, Scanning & Optimization solutions. We also provide options for dual infeed applications.

The range of edger control solutions includes -
EdgerView ^TM
FEATURES:

• Live video of actual board with adjustable sawlines overlayed
• No need for lasers
• Increased lighting enables better view of wane defects
• Adapts also to prepositioning infeeds
• Better veiw of outfeed (no laser tower)

Live Sawline Positioning (without laser)
For manually controlled Edgers

IRIS - Infra Red Inline Scanner
Combines smart camera technology with infra red lighting and lasers to produce a high resolution image of the real board. Includes advanced reporting and a user friendly operator interface. Traverse base scanning for both hardwood and softwood sawmills is available.
Features:

• Full optimized board solution
• Actual real board displayed with live solution
• Manual overide option for grade recovery
• Improved recovery
• Volume or Value based optimization
• Comprehensive Reports
• New or Retrofit to your Edger

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Crosby edger-optimizer
New Optimised Edger Debuts in the USA . . .The collaboration of WPS Industries, manufacturer of the well known Crosby sawmill machinery, and Windsor Technology, with its innovative and proven computer based scanning and optimization systems, has resulted in the Compact infeed system. This can easily be fitted into new and existing sawmill machine layouts, takes up a minimal amount of space, and has the added advantage of accommodating mills that infeed boards from either side.

The Compact infeed system will give mills the maximum benefit from optimization, at a competitive price.

Algoma Lumber, a hardwood mill in Algoma, Wisconsin, commissioned the first of these new Crosby machines in its sawmill at the end of last year. Windsor Technology’s Brian Smith says Algoma contacted the Louisiana-based Crosby Sawmill Machines towards the middle of last year, with a view to replacing its manual secondary infeed with a new edger incorporating both computerised scanning and an optimization system.
The Crosby edger-optimizer is fitted with Windsor Technology’s system of smart cameras and software, providing operator control, board scanning and optimization. It utilises multiplexed industrial cameras which capture images profiled by infrared beams and invisible lasers, and new high-level scanning and optimization software. This provides the operator with a real image of the actual board and solution rather than the graphical animation offered in previous systems. It allows the operator the opportunity to manually override a grade related solution when required.

The cameras send the board-wane profile data through an Ethernet interface to a high-speed Pentium processor, sitting next to the sawmill operator. The software then utilises this data to evaluate the board and calculate the optimum sawing solution. The optimizer provides both an increased throughput and a higher value product. The automatic pre-positioning of boards at the edger dramatically reduces the cycle time and also decreases operator error.
How robust is the system?
The camera housings are  compact, of stainless steel, and are both robust and fully IP67 rated. They are specifically designed for heavy-duty industrial applications, are shock and vibration proof, sealed against dust ingress and can even be hosed down if necessary.The optimizer system was originally developed by Automation & Electronics.
Our experience with the development of smart cameras now extends over a decade and the capability of our optimizer systems rivals those of large global competitors, but at only a fraction of their costs.
The board algorithms and sawing solutions are in turn based on data that has been pre-entered into the processor by the sawmiller.
These values and dimensions reflect any volume or dollar value desired. It then displays a high-resolution board image on the computer screen, showing the optimised board with computer generated overlaying saw lines. The optimization software, again via the Ethernet and the edger PLC, then automatically orientates & skews the boards to the set sawing solution.

Projected laser lines
Positioning laser beams projecting cut lines onto the boards

Edgerview
Basic Edgerview system with manual saw projection lines on screen

Edgerview Pro
Basic Edgerview system with manual saw projection lines, wane location approximation and look up table optimization software

Edgerview Pro Scan (Optimizer for Hardwood & Softwood)
Advanced Edgerview system with basic Edgerview features and additional automatic profile scan and optimisation

Compact Edger Optimizer
New infeed system incorporating a combination of laser and infra red lighting using multiplexed Smart Camera technology to provide full optimisation combined with visual operator interface, compact design is ideal for single or dual infeed mill layouts (ref Crosby Sawmill Machines USA) 

Autolog
3D edger high-speed optimisation control systems

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