Posted on March 13, 2015

The Autolog transverse optimizer family of products is continuously being upgraded with new software and improved technology.

In 2009, the R&D group came up with the innovative idea of slanting the scanner heads to help improve the boards and cants geometry. Positive results were immediately obtained; scanning the boards at an angle allowed for an improved edge detection and width accuracy, high density / faster scanner sensors combined with slanted features allowed for the detection of splits and shake, holes and torn grain.

The R&D group worked for several months on extensive software algorithms that were necessary to achieve such positive results.

Other benefits were also observed: the slanted heads did not retain dust and debris so the cleaning protocol was reduced to almost nothing. As an additional benefit, the air cleaning system was no longer necessary thus reducing system and maintenance cost.

Autolog supplies its transverse optimizer system on Windows 7. Multi-processors architecture, multi-threading applications and SQL database are all standard items within the optimizer systems.

As seen in Timber Processing Magazine and Logging & Sawmilling Journal