Suggestions for production plywood cutting required.

www.giben.com, for one. Tom

Depending on specic requirements you could look at shop-bot.
http://www.shopbottools.com/

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:56:58 GMT, "BigD" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I'm costing putting together a company to manufacture house panels and am
>looking for tool suggestions for cutting plywood & particle board in various
>configurations in a production type atmosphere (ie. preferably automated).
>Any suggestions on where to start my research would be greatly appreciated.


Try Automation Devices in Mt. Belview, TX ( 281-383-3403 ) Lon builds
custom machinery to customer specs and does an excellent job. Good
luck. BTW - what part of the country are you planning to locate in?

BigD (in E15bf.410592$1i.163654@pd7tw2no) said:

| Thanks for the response.
|
| I'm in the preliminaries of putting together the game plan but
| here's what I have:
|
| [1] How big are the house panels and what materials in what sizes
| and
|| shapes are you wanting to cut?
|
| standard 4'x8' sheets
|
|| [2] Do you want to automate just the cutting - or do you want
|| assembly, too?
|
| initially no until I can prove the market and am up and
| running and more experienced with which tools justify their cost
|
|| [3] What is your panel per day/hour/minute/second target?
|
| again - too early to tell
|
|| [4] How much are you _willing_ to spend? :-)
|
| how long is a piece of string? I was looking at initial
| start-up of between $50k - $100k to include everything. I'd prefer
| something a little more labour intensive at the start and then
| upgrade at a later date.
|
| My last business was a stainless shop and I made the mistake of
| following my ex-partner's suggestions on what tools to purchase, we
| bought all new equipment which most of we barely used or could have
| purchases on the used market for 25% .... but we still made very
| nice breweries. So am trying to get a feel for what is out there
| (prior to sticking my foot in my mouth) and what each level of
| automation costs/ production output.


Darryl...

You might take a close look at used ShopBot CNC routers. I've seen 'em
offered for as low as US$2K (once) and a number of times in the $6K
ballpark. The PRT-96 standard machine can handle 4x8 sheet stock and
can handle internal cut-outs.

Having taken that close look, it might pay you to lurk at the CNCZone
forum and learn how to build your own machine - it's not as difficult
as you'd probably imagine. I think you could probably design and build
a combination saw/router CNC machine for an amount around $2500 if you
shop carefully. OTS motor controllers make it relatively easy to use
inexpensive control software (I'm not sure if there's freeware
available; but it'd be worth looking for.)

Typically, you'd create a DXF (drawing) file and feed that (or a
converted version of that) to your control software, which would then
control the cutting to produce what you'd drawn. No magic required;
and relatively little cash needed.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

Thanks for the response.

I'm in the preliminaries of putting together the game plan but here's what I
have:

[1] How big are the house panels and what materials in what sizes and
> shapes are you wanting to cut?

standard 4'x8' sheets

> [2] Do you want to automate just the cutting - or do you want
> assembly, too?

initially no until I can prove the market and am up and running
and more experienced with which tools justify their cost

> [3] What is your panel per day/hour/minute/second target?

again - too early to tell

> [4] How much are you _willing_ to spend? :-)

how long is a piece of string? I was looking at initial start-up
of between $50k - $100k to include everything. I'd prefer something a little
more labour intensive at the start and then upgrade at a later date.

My last business was a stainless shop and I made the mistake of following my
ex-partner's suggestions on what tools to purchase, we bought all new
equipment which most of we barely used or could have purchases on the used
market for 25% .... but we still made very nice breweries. So am trying to
get a feel for what is out there (prior to sticking my foot in my mouth) and
what each level of automation costs/ production output.

Regards,

Darryl

"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> BigD (in KGoaf.399662$tl2.384079@pd7tw3no) said:
>
> | Hello All,
> |
> | I'm costing putting together a company to manufacture house panels
> | and am looking for tool suggestions for cutting plywood & particle
> | board in various configurations in a production type atmosphere
> | (ie. preferably automated). Any suggestions on where to start my
> | research would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I'd suggest you start by narrowing the problem:
>
> [1] How big are the house panels and what materials in what sizes and
> shapes are you wanting to cut?
> [2] Do you want to automate just the cutting - or do you want
> assembly, too?
> [3] What is your panel per day/hour/minute/second target?
> [4] How much are you _willing_ to spend? :-)
>
> It's fairly difficult to provide a meaningful answer without that
> information.
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
> http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html
>
>

BigD (in KGoaf.399662$tl2.384079@pd7tw3no) said:

| Hello All,
|
| I'm costing putting together a company to manufacture house panels
| and am looking for tool suggestions for cutting plywood & particle
| board in various configurations in a production type atmosphere
| (ie. preferably automated). Any suggestions on where to start my
| research would be greatly appreciated.

I'd suggest you start by narrowing the problem:

[1] How big are the house panels and what materials in what sizes and
shapes are you wanting to cut?
[2] Do you want to automate just the cutting - or do you want
assembly, too?
[3] What is your panel per day/hour/minute/second target?
[4] How much are you _willing_ to spend? :-)

It's fairly difficult to provide a meaningful answer without that
information.
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:53:08 -0600, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>BigD (in KGoaf.399662$tl2.384079@pd7tw3no) said:
>
>| Hello All,
>|
>| I'm costing putting together a company to manufacture house panels
>| and am looking for tool suggestions for cutting plywood & particle
>| board in various configurations in a production type atmosphere
>| (ie. preferably automated). Any suggestions on where to start my
>| research would be greatly appreciated.
>
>I'd suggest you start by narrowing the problem:
>
>[1] How big are the house panels and what materials in what sizes and
>shapes are you wanting to cut?
>[2] Do you want to automate just the cutting - or do you want
>assembly, too?
>[3] What is your panel per day/hour/minute/second target?
>[4] How much are you _willing_ to spend? :-)
>
>It's fairly difficult to provide a meaningful answer without that
>information.



hey Mo-
how much does a saw weigh?

yeah yeah - how longs a piece of string?

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> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:53:08 -0600, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >BigD (in KGoaf.399662$tl2.384079@pd7tw3no) said:
> >
> >| Hello All,
> >|
> >| I'm costing putting together a company to manufacture house panels
> >| and am looking for tool suggestions for cutting plywood & particle
> >| board in various configurations in a production type atmosphere
> >| (ie. preferably automated). Any suggestions on where to start my
> >| research would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >I'd suggest you start by narrowing the problem:
> >
> >[1] How big are the house panels and what materials in what sizes and
> >shapes are you wanting to cut?
> >[2] Do you want to automate just the cutting - or do you want
> >assembly, too?
> >[3] What is your panel per day/hour/minute/second target?
> >[4] How much are you _willing_ to spend? :-)
> >
> >It's fairly difficult to provide a meaningful answer without that
> >information.
>
>
>
> hey Mo-
> how much does a saw weigh?