What follows are some of the best conditions in which to cut small parts, along with alternative methods if your setup doesn’t quite fit the bill.

Improving yields and efficiency in the rough mill can add meaningful dollars to the company’s finances. If you are purchasing $1 million dollars of lumber a year, then each 1 percent of yield gain adds $10,000 to the company’s bottom line. Today’s wood product manufacturers are seeing an improving business environment for their products. Housing starts are trending upward and with that the need for hardwood flooring, cabinets, moldings and other wood products have been rising. The price of hardwood lumber has seen an increase as demand has risen.

FIRST Championship to let young people to showcase their STEM inventiveness, learn about careers in automation; April 18-21 in Houston; April 25-28 in Detroit.

The number one issue which results in poor edgeband quality is chipped edges at the banding/panel interface.

Since the very beginning of my involvement in 3D lamination, I’ve been aware of the problems associated with producing very long parts (4-foot-plus) in a membrane press.  One of my earliest experiences providing technical support involved a part that was 4 feet wide and nearly 8 feet in length. “I can’t even get one-third of the parts to come out acceptably,” said this frustrated producer.

U.K.'s Forest Research has optimized measurements from forest sample plots using a terrestrial LiDAR laser - producing more accurate and detailed information that can be fed into national and international forest information systems.

Woodworking machinery giant Homag has teamed with Kuka, a German manufacturer of industrial robots, in an effort to expand the presence of advanced robotics in the woodworking industry.

Demonstrations will include real case scenarios of the techniques used to streamline production processes.

Moasure is motion-sensor-based measuring device that works by simply moving.