Firewood Processing and Packaging Automation Cell

J.A.Millson Enterprise(Millson‘s)希望从事木柴生产和销售机械的设计、制造和营销，这些木柴已被拆分并包装成1立方英尺和0.5立方英尺袋子，用于托盘交付。目前，Millson的原型机械使用简单的手眼协调、分片加工方法整合了所有木材储存、挑选、包装和袋装加工操作。这些最先进的设施由当地柴火生产经营者根据每生产单位的合同费用租用。工厂的用户报告说，由于参与包装线操作的员工流动率很高，原型很难保持一致的产量。由于对切割、分割和包装木柴的需求很高且始终如一，米尔森希望将现有生产线设施中涉及的高度重复的过程自动化。目前还没有已知的商业解决方案来实现包装过程的自动化或机械化。米尔森认为，问题的解决将创造新的知识产权，他们可以将这些知识产权推向世界各地的木材地段业务。此外，Millson‘s可能会在加拿大北部森林社区建立其他运营中心，那里的圆形木材目前没有得到充分利用。此外，Millson‘s还将授权制造国内和国际上先进的劈柴加工技术。

J.A. Millson Enterprises (Millson's) wishes to engage in the design, manufacture, and marketing of machinery for the production and distribution of firewood that has been split and packaged into 1 and 0.5 cubic foot bags, for palletized delivery. Currently, Millson's prototype machinery incorporates all of the wood storage, selection, packing and bagging processing operations using simple hand-eye coordinated, piece-work methods. These state-of-the-art facilities are rented by local firewood production operators, based on a contracted fee per unit of production. The users of the facilities report that the prototype has difficulty maintaining consistent output due to the high turnover of employees involved in the operation of the packaging line. As there is high and consistent demand for cut, split and packaged firewood, Millson's would like to automate the highly repetitive processes involved in their existing production line facilities. At the present time there are no known commercial solutions for automating or mechanizing the packaging process. Millson's believes that the solution of the problem, will create new intellectual property that they could market to wood lot operations across the world. Additionally, Millson's might establish other operations centers, across Canada's Boreal forest communities, where round wood stock is presently under utilized. Also, Millson's would license the manufacture of superior split firewood processing technology nationally and internationally.