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BID’s Comact TrimExpert, the most common AI optimizer for Hardwood

Producing bad lumber that will end up in low grades or in trim loss is very costly. Identifying a defective or ill-fitting cutting tool can take time... So why not have these actions performed automatically, reliably, and in real time with BID Group’s new Trimmer SmartTool, a solution that will quickly and accurately detect sawing anomalies, allowing you to maintain product quality and improve production volume.

Quickly Detect Sawing Anomalies with BID’s New Trimmer SmartTool using Artificial Intelligence

With the new Trimmer SmartTool, there is no need to perform regular manual quality checks to find costly issues. By leveraging BID’s advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) vision, the Trimmer SmartTool can find the origin of each board, assess its quality, and identify cutting tools that may be defective or incorrectly set, allowing you to fix the quality issues of your sawline on the spot. This new product is part of the state-of-the-art SmartTool Quality Control Suite which has been designed to add operational intelligence to your production lines.

BID’s Advanced AI

Over the past few years, BID has developed the most advanced AI engine in the industry. Put to the test in over 200 vision systems, it has proven itself and demonstrated exceptional and reliable performance.

Benefiting from the technological advances of BID’s AI platform and the development of specific diagnostic algorithms, this SmartTool can accomplish a task dimensional statistics can be tallied by cutting tool source. Therefore, production and quality control staff now have an overview of every machine’s cutting accuracy over time, will receive real-time alarms on specific issues, and will be empowered to monitor trends to avoid upcoming issues. Pinpointing and correcting the source of a dimensional issue becomes effortless.

that, until recently, was impossible: automatically identifying the exact cutting tool that has processed the face of the board (patent pending).

Looking for cutting accuracy issues can be tedious, especially with the lack of experienced personnel. With this SmartTool, you will easily identify which tool has cut a specific board. All Powerful dashboards and alerts

Activated on the trimmer line, this integrated software benefits from the optimizer’s high 3D precision measuring devices. The software computes and monitors many crucial statistics including, but not limited to: • piece-to-piece sawing deviation • sawing deviation inside a piece • the percentage of pieces on target dimensions • thickness/width taper • bevel • left-right wane distribution

All data is presented using configurable and easy-to-read dashboards and reports. The configurable dashboards will display trends on the sawing’s dimensional accuracy before problems arise. Moreover, emails and custom alarms can be set to ensure no problem goes unnoticed, whether you’re in the mill or miles away.

Requirements

The Trimmer SmartTool solution requires vision on your trimmer, so you either need a Comact TrimExpertTM, or a Comact trimmer optimizer that has the capability to be retrofitted in order to add a vision section to it.

Unlike external third-party systems, all the tools are already included in Comact optimizers’ software and hardware. The Trimmer SmartTool can be activated in any up-to-date version of the software. All the KPI’s are accessible within the software and benefit from the renowned Comact Deep Learning AI engine.

Reduce your targeted dimensions

Ultimately, the Trimmer SmartTool will help you reduce the sawing dimensions. In many cases, sawmillers keep too much “meat around the bone” to compensate for sawing inconsistencies. By having more control using the Trimmer SmartTool, and especially if combined with BID’s Primary Breakdown Closed-Loop SmartTool, it is then possible to improve and maintain production volume and quality at the sawmill.

To sum it up, the Trimmer SmartTool offers you peace of mind knowing that your production is always being monitored and that the lumber produced is right on target. It can even detect hard-tonotice, infrequent issues. Recurrent quality control checks are no longer necessary, taking the pressure off your team. All this integrated seamlessly into Comact’s potent optimizing software and backed with BID’s renowned 24/7 service. Curious to know how the SmartTool Suite could help you sustain high product quality at all times? Contact BID now or visit www. bidgroup.ca

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