Industries
forest Products
Progress Engineering has extensive experience in the forest products sector, including virtually every aspect of process control and automation within Sawmills, Pellet Mills, Chip Mills, Biomass & Bark Mulch plants, Pallet Mills, OSB plants, and Pulp & Paper mills. Examples of some projects in these industries include:
- Plant wide process controls for a wood pellet manufacturing process, from sawdust storage to bagging and palletizing
- Wood dryers
- Palletizing robot
- Cedar shingle manufacturing line
- Chip and bark metering and conveying
- Auto-nailers
- Robotic wood handling and scanning
- Cedar fence manufacturing line
- Chippers, screens, hogs
- Log home manufacturing line, including CAD to CAM (PLC) automation
- Log optimization
- Robotic pallet assembly
- Wood Kilns
- Twin band saw control with in-feed
- Wood resonant frequency sensing and sorting
- Wood printers and stampers
- Slasher controls
- Sawdust metering and handling systems
- Biomass boilers
- Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for plant-wide process management
- Truck scales
Typical challenges in forest products industries include increasing throughput, managing quality and finding enough qualified employees. Automation can help with these demands. If your business is in forest products, Progress Engineering has probably worked with the process you’re looking to automate.