Detection of defects and quality for cross-cut with Goldeneye 300

“Working with System TM and Microtec has been great. During our visit to your factory we were impressed with all the people, the facilities and the equipment. Results to date indicate that we have made sound investment and we have every confidence in working with System TM and Microtec.” Nigel Wilshier, Managing Director at OTC Timber.

Product: Goldeneye 300
Country: Otorohanga, New Zealand
Partner: System TM

Ligna 2013 was the right date to consider a new investment by OTC Timber Company in Otorohanga. Some time before a delegation of OTC visited a cross cut line in operation at a customer’s location in New Zealand and they were impressed by the operation. The decision to replace the manual cross cut saw by a modern, automated optimizing cross cut line came soon.
Up until the investment in the new equipment from Microtec and System TM, the production of OTC Timber has been performed manually. As the cost of raw material continued to increase, they realized that it was necessary to improve the yield from raw material into clear blocks and components. Following the Ligna exhibition in 2013 both companies worked on a layout of a potential line that would line up to the needs of OTC Timber.

After visiting System TM in Denmark for demonstration of the Opti-Kap 5003 optimizing cross-cut saw and testing of their work pieces with Microtec scanner, OTC Timber was convinced that investing in this complete solution was right for them and their production requirements. The full automatic solution consists of a vacuum infeed system Opti-Feed 6000 Vack, a Microtec Multi-Sensor Quality Scanner Goldeneye 300 for detection of defects and quality before the optimizing cross-cut saw model Opti-Kap 5003. Going through the Opti-Kap 5003 cross-cut saw, the workpieces are cut into finger joint components of Radiata pine.

The Goldeneye scanner performs a full profile scanning and grading of planed lamellas for main products. The scanner system makes a 4-side visual inspection and is equipped with dimension scanning, scatter and grain deviation as well as high resolution color scanning devices. All the board properties are visualized in real time and sent to the optimization system by high-speed data transfer. In September 2014 a delegation of OTC visited Microtec’s headquarter and got a training for the operation of Goldeneye 300. Start up of the whole cross cut optimization line including the Multi-Sensor Quality Scanner occurred in November 2014.

The acquaintance with OTC was very pleasant and the cooperation in this project was successful in every step. OTC Timber is based in Otorohanga on the North Island of New Zealand. OTC Timber is family owned and was founded in 1934. Today the company counts 85 employees.

Otorohanga, New Zealand