Application Spotlight: Yaskawa Helps Eagle Make the Cut

Maximum speed is mission critical for the owners of automated crosscut saws from Eagle Machinery & Supply. More speed means faster output of valuable hardwood lumber, and more profitability. Yaskawa servo systems help Eagle’s Talon 3000 saw cut an imperfection out of a board in the time it takes to blink an eye, keeping productivity high while preserving the appearance of a beautiful hardwood.

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00:00:04 [Applause] [Music] the town 3000 in a nutshell is a machine that processes lumber at a very high rate of speed we believe it is the fastest one on the market knots cracks wormholes mineral stains and the town 3000 will cut those defects out of each board to maximize a good parts of each piece of lumber

00:00:55 [Music] if you lose milliseconds here there and it adds up over an eight or ten hour shift your throughput goes up or down and that can have a big impetus at the end of the day we have had to minimize the inertia that is in play with the high speed indexing of the material we are processing in the saw and in order to do that the servo

00:01:25 systems had to be fine-tuned we've recently had a scow in and they have helped us tune and tweak and dial in the servo motor so now we can push it a little bit harder push a little bit faster and get a little bit more through than what we did when we first came out [Music] I've seen poor controls beat VFDs unreliable servos and when a product

00:02:16 does what it's supposed to do every day all day life is so much more enjoyable [Applause] you