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The Sveza company has digitalized another important production process. Machine vision technology has been implemented at the birch raw material cutting section of the plant in St. Petersburg. The automation distributes timber by length and diameter. The expected annual economic effect from the implemented project is about 3 million rubles.

three lines depending on the netherlands cell phone number listlength and diameter of the assortments. Each line saws them using a large circular saw and sends the timber to the corresponding peeling machine. Two machines peel raw material with a diameter greater than 240 mm, and one - less. Usually, an operator distributes the assortments among the saws.

To eliminate the human factor, a machine vision system was introduced in the cutting section. The essence of its operation is that a special video camera records the raw material arriving for cutting, determines the length and diameter of each assortment with mathematical precision and, depending on the data received, sends the log to the appropriate peeling line.

The implementation of such technology eliminates errors and, therefore, reduces to a minimum the likelihood of line downtime and loss of raw materials.

"We are implementing machine vision systems in different areas of our production: on splicing lines, in the plywood cutting and gluing area. Each project requires careful and painstaking preparation. For example, in order to teach the machine to measure the diameter of raw materials, we took and loaded into the database over 700 pictures of birch tree trunk cuts," notes Konstantin Tumashevich, head of the technological development center at the Sveza plant in St. Petersburg.

The program interface and database were developed by experts from the digital direction of the Sveza business system development directorate. They used Python to write the program. The expected annual economic effect from the implementation of the technology is about 3 million rubles.