ScanMeg, with input from some of its customers, has developed a secret weapon against downtime on canter lines that you can employ to increase throughput by 3 to 5% by spending pocket change. You don’t have to send budgets to the Board of Directors for approval to get an instant payback simply for redeploying your maintenance dollar allocation.

Read on to find out the secret now used by companies such as Simpson Timber, Roseburg Forest Products, Weyerhaeuser, Tolko, Interfor, Dunkley Lumber, Interfor and Abitibi have increased the number of logs per shift through their primary and secondary breakdown lines through the use of some simple devices.

The devices that have proven to increase uptime on your log cut-up-line, log sorting and primary-breakdown lines, are the specially-designed, ScanMeg Area Photocells.

With LEDs at one-inch spacing and with sizes of 4″, 8″, 12″ and 16″ there is a size for all applications. These area photocells replace existing stacked photocell arrays to provide a much more economical and reliable solution. Only one I/O is required for the complete unit.

How many times has a production line stopped because vibration misaligned a photocell?

What about sawdust or dirt build-up blocking a photocell?

What about a single failed photocell in a stack that stops the canter or log sorting line?

What about a crooked or badly swept log that misses a photocell completely and screws up the sequencing or timing through the line?

Miss-alignment resulting in Cross talk – thing of the past with the ScanMeg Type P Area Photocell – it just doesn’t happen.

How often does your Electrician change his electrician’s hat for a custodian’s hat just to clean a photocell? Doesn’t he have other jobs to do that are more important? Let’s not waste his valuable time….

Perfect spots to install them are on those typical locations with severe conditions – e.g. before and after log cut-off-saws that depend on automatic operations, flying log turners, before canter heads, before and after saw sections and log or cant kickers. Vertical curve-sawing lines are particularly vulnerable to false signals since the sweep is in the vertical plane making stacked photocells or the area photocells mandatory.