The key piece of machinery in the workshop – and perhaps the most impressive and advanced – is our panel-sorting machine. It is able to store, house, sort and process up to 5,000 sheets of pressed laminate. The machine cleverly sorts each panel in the most efficient way, and talks to both CNC machines within the workshop, optimising the whole manufacturing process.
How? The sorting machine works all day and all night to organise each panel into the optimal cutting order for machine operators to use. This sped up sorting process eliminates the downtime machinists would otherwise spend sorting panels traditionally using a forklift to manually lift and sift through boards. In the quiet of the night, the machine continues to sort – preparing panels for the next day’s work, saving a huge sum of time.
