The Maronda Insider: Part 1, Saws & Delivery
Closed Captioning: We’re at our MIPS plant in Sanford, Florida, which is centrally located to service most of our Florida area. Currently right now we do roof trusses, floor trusses, wall panels, and floor panel systems out of this facility, we’ll take you for a short tour through most of them. Right now we’re setting up our West building, which is a new facility for us, in which we’re going to add a total of four more tables into this West building. This West building is going to incorporate a wizard table, a standard modified table that will produce multiple different trusses. We also have a new blade saw that’s currently there with a live deck system, but we have a fully functional South truss plant. The South truss plant has a total of six tables, along with one automated wizard table with automated saws – let’s go take a look at those saws now.
For older saws, the alpine typically cuts top and bottom cords and then our kosovich on the servo, this also cuts top and bottom cords. These five blade saws are integral to our process, again, the software dictates exactly what we do. It sends it to the appropriate saw so we can be as efficient as possible. After the saws and components are cut they go back to the trees or out to a staging area. They then come into our main truss plant, that main truss plant gets placed on the carts, and those carts get assembled adjacent to the truss tables. So again, everything flows through via computer, the batches come to the tables via cart, it’s placed up on the screen computer, and your house is built exactly through the the way it’s supposed to be built, following each plan. Everything that is green on the computer screen indicates that it’s been cut, tracked, and manipulated.
This saw runs with one operator completely through the program. The program shows green is “active” and/or “in cut”, yellow is “in process”, and red is “in cutting”. The blade saw manipulates a single blade and makes all the appropriate areas and turns that it needs to. So it’s all completely enclosed which makes it much safer and easier, and much more precise. The benefit of the blade saw is that it also does a laser imprinting of the cords. If you notice, it has the job number, the truck information, everything that needs to happen on that house to follow along. Within that process it also inks, decides what side to place it to, and then that inking orientation indicates what plates are to be utilized and the plate locations. This indicates a plate location, for example, this is a four by four gusset plate. So it saves you, you’re sure that you have the right parts and pieces, and that your house is constructed properly.
Here at Maronda, we deliver our own materials. These materials are picked for their quality, placed on the vehicles to ensure the appropriate lots, and we’re making sure that we handle them with care. Most others go from outside sources, they don’t care about themselves, they care about that PO. We care about you, the customer. In this application, we have multiple different jobs to go out for efficiency. It’s because we build in multiple areas and we ship out at least 40 to 50 jobs a day. We’re able to optimize our system and deliver these to each individual job as we go through.
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