Bucking
Porter Engineering has applied its many years of experience in Real-Shape Scanning and Optimization to Log Bucking and Merchandising.
Porter Bucking solutions are based on modeling downstream machine centers that actually produce the products. Our Bucking Optimization relies on actual embedded Canter, Rotation and Cant Optimization RT3 Software within the Bucking Computer to generate the most valuable Bucking System Solution. Actual Lumber prices for products are entered into the Bucking System and solutions can be derived for value, recover or product mix as desired by the user.
Porter Optimized Bucking Systems will produce sawlogs, plywood peelers and pulpwood, as required. Third party metal detectors are supported allowing metal to be automatically bucked out of the stem. Leading, trailing or distributed trim can also be defined based on mechanical configurations.
- Full 360 degree Ultra High Definition (UHD) Profile Scanning. This is the same Scanning Hardware used in all scan zones on all machine centers
- Super fast scan rates
- Industrial Rackmount Intel® multi-core rack mounted industrial computers
- Exhaustive search algorithms, optimum solution provided for every piece
- Flexibility, Optimize for value, recovery or product mix
- Flexibility, Lumber sizes in metric, imperial, or a combination
- Manual override and re-optimization capability
- Common User Interface with extensive 3D graphics across all Porter optimization systems
- Embedded context sensitive help
- System Diagnostics
- Comprehensive graphical and tabular statistical reporting that fully integrates to all Porter RT3 Systems
- Provides significant increases in fiber utilization, lumber value and lumber recovery
- Exhaustive search algorithm, optimum solution provided for every piece.
- Flexibility to Optimize for value, recovery or product mix.
- Lumber sizes in metric, imperial, or a combination
- Embedded context sensitive help
- System Diagnostics
RT3 empowers the user to run off-line simulations to determine what effects parameter changes (price, target size, kerf, product mix, etc.) have on value, recovery and resulting lumber mix without actually processing the timber. A single stem, a portion of or a complete shift of stems may be simulated and the results can be view in report form and/or graphically.
Porter Optimized Bucking systems can be fully integrated with RT3 Primary Breakdown Software. Bringing forward downstream Canter and sawing solutions and combining that with Real-Shape scanning results in more accurate log modeling and increased recovery and value and the bucking stage.
Customized to your mill’s requirements, both Optimized Bucking and Primary Breakdown systems use the same Graphical User Interface, operating parameters and operator’s display reducing training and implementation efforts. Parameter and price changes can be entered at either location.
Porter offers many levels of product support to ensure your continued satisfaction with our systems
- Free telephone technical support for the life of the system including troubleshooting your system over Internet/VPN
- After Hours Emergency support
- Spare optimization parts stocked at our Richmond facility