Log yard

Automation of the crosscutting station

Scanner + industrial PC with touch screen interface + PLC + encoders and sensors

• Scanner via light curtain
• Automatic cutting of the log end
• Displaying on the PC screen of the log length and log diameters every 50cm
• Automatic cutting of log length by presets
• Automatic log sorting
• Production statistics: length and volume of the log; lengths and volumes of the crosscut short logs
• Connection for data processing management software
• Option: connection with head saw to display : the length, the diameter and the sawing patterns.

Figure 01.1

Example of screen control on the PC touch screen of the crosscutting station.