An existing chop saw cuts wooden boards and stacks them on a euro palette. To stabilize the pile, wooden sticks are regularly put between the layers. Therefore a lath-magazine was developed and mounted on the existing machine.
The lath-magazine includes two magazines, each providing room for 60 wooden strips. The higher the existing machine stacks the boards, the more unstable the pile gets. To stabilize the pile, the lath-magazine puts strips of wood at an angle of 90 degrees between the layers.
The modular structure of the assembly allows adaptation of the machine, so that it can handle different sizes of wooden strips. The optimized construction can also handle wooden strips with a high deviation in width and height.
A Siemens S7 PLC control runs the machine and communicates with the control system of the already existing machine to enable a smooth process and an easier build-up of the machine.