IWF has made many of the IWF 2016 Education Conference sessions available for purchase and viewing online.

Increasing output from the capacity you have is the holy grail of wood manufacturers. Production Coach provides a means to that end.

At IWF 2016 in Atlanta, visitors had a chance to get an up-close look at the very anticipated GS Router, a 2016 Challengers Award Finalist. With speed and precision, the GS bridges the gap between nesting on a conventional CNC router and cutting books of panels on a beam saw.

I was contacted by IWF about being part of a small group, the “GoPro Guys,” that would walk around the show floor and do video interviews with any company or product that sparked our interest. Of course I would!

SCM now offers a small machining center for vertical drilling, able to produce up to 400 pieces per shift. It is applicable to Batch 1 production, drilling on 5 faces of the panel with routing and grooving operations.

Owing to its highly efficient glue nozzle design, Gannomat's Selekta 253 can glue and insert at a rapid pace: 40 dowels per minute.

USNR’s AddVantage Chop and Rip Saw Optimizers are designed to add value for the rough mill.

With speed and precision, the GS will bridge the gap between nesting on a conventional CNC router and cutting books of panels on a beam saw. It will offer the best of both worlds. With an average nest time of around 2 minutes, it can produce more than double the output of a typical CNC router.

Production of furniture panels with Välinge Threespine click furniture technology at Totebo: from cutting of the profiles to placing the flexible plastic tongues used to lock the panels together, at Totebo, using an Optimat KFL sizing machine.