Machine vision based sawmill audit system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9827643
APP PUB NO 20120227866A1
SERIAL NO

13413460

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Sawmill auditing and control apparatus and methods employ information from one or more scan zones and/or controllers (e.g., PLCs). Boards may be logically associated with mill equipment which produced the boards, allowing defects or imperfections to be tied to certain equipment. For example, boards may be associated with a primary breakdown machine or a gangsaw, or with a pair of cutters (e.g., saws, chip heads). Such allows auditing of mill operations to identify improperly functioning machinery or out of tolerance conditions, to correct such, and/or provide notification.

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WEYERHAEUSER NR COMPANYPO BOX 9777 CH1J27 FEDERAL WAY WA 98063-9777

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Barker, Earl Enumclaw, US 10 102

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