FDM - July 2009

cabinet company slim down

of tens of thousands of lineal
feet of mouldings and
solid stock, as we did
before,” Rutz says.

Faster programming

The process starts when Style Line downloads cut files from CabinetVision to MillVision. MillVision sends the material list to the gang ripsaw, the moulder and the cutoff saw. On smaller jobs the order is combined for the best yield. MillVision also made programming the ripsaw faster and simpler than before.

Style Line has benefited from optimization. The panel saw and machining center’s gains in material usage have paid for the machines themselves. Normally, 15/16 inch solid stock for door and face frame parts is brought in and stripped down to 13/16 inch.

A Giben front-load panel saw was the first step for shelves and cabinet backs. (Another saw suffered the fate of being struck by lightning.) Interior shelving is laminated particleboard and drawer boxes are dovetail plywood with solid wood as an upgrade.

A Busellato Jet 400RT flat-table machining center cuts everything else

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Ripsaw and
moulder
reduce space

Style Line’s purchase of a moulder, ripsaw and cutoff saw helped them to:

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Reduce the amount of
cash and space to keep
large inventory of
solid board stock
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Provided ability to
edge both sides of
board at one time
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Achieved cost savings
in straight line ripping
since it justified cost of
machine
●
Moulder purchase
allowed them to
make their own
mitered doors, so they
wouldn’t have to wait
for someone else

A Busellato Jet 400RT flat-table machining center cuts a wide variety of special shapes.

that was cut on the panel saw, plus jobs that were done on a previous point-to-point. A Morbidelli machining center does most cutting, all fluting, any kind of arch rails and any decorative work.

Ripping, moulding and
cutoff

Raimann ProfiRip KM 310M straight line ripsaw is used with MillVision for all solid wood material such as mouldings, door panels and frame stock. “You place the board there and it optimizes the best yield by the width of the board, moving the

blades into position at the same time the fence is moving to position on our fixed pockets. We keep two fixed pocket widths along with the movable blade that gives us up to three cuts per board,” Rutz says.

The ValueRip III infeed system provides the ability to enter cutlists from CabinetVision into the Value Rip that the Raimann reads.

Pieces are cut 1/8 inch wider to go through the Powermat 1000 moulder, which is set up for S4S. Style Line uses stackable diamond tooling on the side cutters, and insert tooling on the top head cutters — so changing from one profile to another takes a few minutes.