DOUCET

Floor-End Matchers - Grading & Nesting Systems

 

Doucet Grading and Nesting Systems

SPEEDING-UP PACKAGING BY MINIMIZING UNPRODUCTIVE MOTIONS

 

Upon exiting your End-Matcher, Flooring is kept good face up in exit sequence
"Select Grade" Flooring is allowed to pass through without intervention
Lower volume Grades and "Re-Work" are retrieved by the grader(s)
Nesters retrieve flooring from a Reserve Belt for assembling their Bundle on a pneumatically retractable Nesting Platform
A Belt Transfer Device evacuates completed Bundles
A Collision Avoidance System regulates Bundle Traffic all the way to the Strapping Machines
 On expanded Systems, strapping of all Bundles and of stacking of "Select Flooring" is done automatically, and production data is collected in the process


Basic Grading and Nesting Solution includes

1 - A Grading Conveyor for visual inspection of Flooring exiting the End-Matcher
2 - Three (3) Conveyor Belts one for each Flooring Grade
3 - Four (4) Ergonomic Nesting Stations ENS with their Reserve Belts
4 - A Transit Line and a Staging Conveyor for Nested Bundle

5 - A PLC to regulate Flooring Volume distribution and Nested Bundle transit

 

 EXPANDED GRADING & NESTING SOLUTION INCLUDES

- More Ergonomic Nesting Stations with Conveyor Belts and Reserves
- In high speed system, a board sequencer is added for "Select Grade" flooring automatic pass through
- System Controlled Strapping Machine(s)
- Automatic Stacker for "Select Flooring"
- Production Tracking and Inventory Input System