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Schreinerei Otterbach: Precise investment

services. Productivity starts with work preparation Florian Otterbach is fully versed in the latest technologies and knows what they involve. On its journey to becoming a high-performance production specialist [...] Otterbach is taking its first steps toward Production 4.0. This intelligent data manager helps processors to open up optimization potential, including in the production process. All the Homag machines at Otterbach [...] Christoph Otterbach: "Our experience and our production power will enable us to continue our success." The Otterbachs already have their sights firmly set on the next investment: with the Drillteq V-200

Panel cutting in batch size 1 combined with high throughput

de Joinery business Voit takes a new approach to panel cutting: quality plus quantity Panel cutting has been completely overhauled at production specialist Voit. The joinery has made a technological quantum [...] its five employees at the time. Today, that number has grown to 65. A production area of around 8500 m² boasts the latest production and packaging technology. Voit is a classic family business: In addition [...] furniture leave the production halls every week. "Tailor-made technology" While he was searching for a suitable strategy for the future, Voit took a very close look at the issues of panel cutting and of nesting

HOMAG India goes the VOC way!

precision, consistency and product quality, and higher production efficiency. “So far as IoT is concerned, it is a wholly proactive and predictive technology. It is about cutting wastage, increasing efficiency [...] HOMAG’s products (at present it offers more than 250 types of machines for furniture manufacturing!); a greater play in geographies, including exports. “An expansion of the existing HOMAG product portfolio [...] market strategy more aligned to meet Indian industry requirements; and the teams primed to meet goals set by the fresh focus. HOMAG India has consolidated its presence on the National Highway in Nelamangala

Automation in the solid wood sector

and the resulting need for a more extensive value chain within production. However, the sometimes higher complexity and variance of products and processes as well as the more elaborate logistics along the [...] component tracking and quality control in production. Many of these challenges make it virtually impossible to implement automation in the sense of batch size 1 production at the present time. Automation using [...] therefore often used to set up the machining processes in such a way that the intervention of a machine operator is minimized. The operator's tasks are then increasingly focused on setting up and preparing the

Swiss precision with Homag machines

panels, the saw works with a cut monitoring system. This stops the cutting process as soon as the saw blade no longer runs true. Furthermore, the saw is equipped with cutting gap closers to prevent narrow [...] from falling into the cutting gap and blocking it. Other features include a minimum-quantity spray device, which is used when cutting plastic materials, a technology package for cutting laminate and trim stops [...] is so lucky as to be able to plan a production facility on a greenfield site. Most companies grow on the spot and have to adapt their material flow in the production process to the available space. Efficiency

CNC technology — world premiere at HOMAG Treff

cost-effectiveness of production. The reliable, integrated parts supply makes every CNC machine a high-performance center and therefore a complete, optimal manufacturing cell for production. The FEEDBOT D-300 [...] entered and realistically displayed in the graphic to program trimming and drilling operations and saw cuts quickly and easily. The next version, 8.0, offers plenty of new functions that have been developed [...] Thus far, the involvement of customers and a willingness to listen to the target group has always set HOMAG apart from the competition, and this has also been taken into account in the latest development

The key to success lies in intralogistics

qualities with the lowest possible material input. And ensure excellent production efficiency. But what happens at other points in the production process? Opportunities for improvement are often found in intra [...] is an important part of Burger Küchen's strategy. To set itself apart from the competition, the German kitchen manufacturer "Burger Küchen" has set itself a striking maxim, which is: "Be faster". One idea [...] manufacturer in the topic of production optimisation. The Technical Manager, Martin Schockwitz, sees the greatest potential for optimisation in the intralogistics of production: "In my opinion, the potential

Namibia - timber construction set on European standards

delivered, it only had to be set up and after just three days, we were able to press the first button and start the machine. We were impressed. Performance: What products do you manufacture with the WEINMANN [...] WEINMANN carpentry machine? What are the special features of your products? Christian Hess: Regardless of whether we need dovetail joints, miter cuts or any other format, the machine copes with it all and completes [...] delivered, it only had to be set up and after just three days, we were able to press the first button and start the machine. We were impressed. Performance: What products do you manufacture with the WEINMANN

Automation is advancing further in woodworking shops – with innovative tools such as intelliOptimizer Stacking

that create value Longer autonomous production Increases the cutting performance in the daily shifts and in particular, the ghost shift, to increase cutting pre-production for the next day Makes configuration [...] first way is by means of Cut Rite. HOMAG provides intelliOptimizer Stacking as a separate tool for this proven optimization software. The cutting patterns are uploaded directly from Cut Rite to intelliOptimizer [...] the age of unmanned cutting. The saws complete the cutting over longer distances autonomously but can also be operated manually. And that will continue. What is new is a digital product that significantly

Taylor Made Joinery invests in HOMAG

understand how the machines perform, but also to learn new techniques and production ideas that could potentially benefit our business. Setting up the new facility “Back in 2013 we were one of the first companies [...] increase our production capacity by at least 20 percent. We can load the sheet material in the day time, select and prepare the panels in the evening whilst the factory is shut, then cut them when the [...] last month we’ve made around 400 door sets within the factory, so that’s given us yet another competitive advantage. “We can now diversify into different products as well. So we are able to target new