Plastic, metal, foam, wood... you name it, Harbor Sales can cut it and deliver it right to your door. A sophisticated web-application, built and developed by Harbor Sales, allows Harbor's customers to optimize their own orders before making a purchase. The web-application passes customer input to Eurosoft's OnCORE server application and then displays the optimized results to the user. If the customer places the order the job can be released to production at the saw without the need to re-optimize. Successfully implementing such a project requires close cooperation between vendor and customer. We were very honored to work with Harbor Sales and their development team on this project and the success is in large part due to their vision and their dedication to seeing it realized.

A fully automated production line, implemented in early 2013, contributes to IFI's competitive edge. The components of the automated production line include a massive storage and retrieval (S&R) system from Dakota Automation, CMS routers and several Kuka offloading robots for part removal and stacking. Order information is directly relayed from the ERP system to the routers for parts production in synch with material supplied by the S&R system. Eurosoft handled the Nesting logic and posting to the CMS routers, the offloading logic for the robotic pickers (christmas tree stacking) and contributed to remnant management processing. See a video of the automated production line in action using the video icon link.

Eurosoft Products: BlueCell, Wintegration, InStock, ImPrint
A trip to a trade show in 2016, and seeing the potential there of new automation equipment and software, started Onsite down the path to even greater manufacturing automation. Pytha and Microvellum, are used by Onsite on the front end for design. Once a design is complete, the partlists are imported into BlueCell. BlueCell automatically determines which parts only need to be cut by a panel saw and which parts have additional machining and therefore need to be sent to a CNC. BlueCell does the optimizing of both the panel saw patterns and the nests with machining for the CNCs. Machinery at Onsite includes a Biesse Winstore storage and retrieval, a Biesse Selco Panel saw and 2 Biesse Rovers. BlueCell determines which parts are going to be cut on which machines and in what sequence and communicates with the Winstore to correctly feed materials when and where needed. InStock is a more recent addition, added after the original automation project, for increased management of sheet stock. Onsite desired to track not only existing material that was already available but also wanted to keep track of allocated inventory for upcoming jobs. When a material starts running low notifications are sent so that the material sheet stock can be ordered and replenished in time. This is synchronized real-time with the inventory in the Winstore.

Onsite Website: osw.io

Eurosoft Products: BlueCell, COBUS NCAD (WOP), Wintegration, Custom Programming
Already a highly automated and technologically oriented company, WB was looking to set the bar even higher. The company recently purchased several machines from Biesse, including a RoverB, an edgebander and a Winstore storage and retrieval system. Eurosoft facilitated the Winstore integration and assisted with streamlining data input: At issue were the thousands of existing IMOS designs and FXM part files currently being used in 2020 Insight to run and track production through the whole manufacturing site. Eurosoft set up a system to convert the existing part files into a new format; these files were imported into BlueCell for nesting and the results were then posted out to multiple CNCs for production.

Wisconsin Bench Website: www.wibenchmfg.com
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Biesse's Winstore storage and retrieval system was introduced to the American market in 2014 at the IWF in Atlanta. Since the IWF, Eurosoft has had the privilege of acting as the software integrator for several Winstore projects in North America. These projects emphasize seamless integration of the client's existing software applications into the Biesse Winstore system. Over the last 8 months our team has worked with technicians at Microvellum, CabinetVision and RouterCIM, as well as with the teams at Biesse Italy and Biesse America, to ensure that software and machinery operate in harmony. Special thanks are owed to all companies involved - their willingness to share expertise and lend resources to tackling complex problems has been a critical component of the success of these projects.

In 2013 Giben America's special projects division launched an ambitious project to design the first American-made storage and retrieval system. The result is G-Store, a brand new S&R that is fully integrated with Giben equipment. Engineers at Dakota Automation designed and built the gantry system and defined the PLC interface. Eurosoft developed an application that would track and maintain the real-world location of machines and materials that the G-Store system would interact with. Once jobs are submitted to the application's database (or added manually through the user interface) they can be released for production. The application determines the locations of the machines and materials required to produce the job, in what order, and communicates these to the gantry system, directing it where to go and what to expect when it gets there. Close cooperation between Giben America, Dakota Automation and Eurosoft, Inc. was key to ensuring that all components of the system integrated seamlessly. The first G-Store system was proudly displayed at the IWF in 2014.

Starting in 2004 Eurosoft and OMGA, Inc. partnered up for the creation of a user-friendly interface for automated programming of Omga cut-off saws. Developed in-house at Eurosoft to Omga's specifications, OmgaLinkPro™ allows users to quickly and easily create jobs for their Omga machine with minimal manual input. The software features a sophisticated ASCII import interface and template system to accommodate import of data from virtually any Ascii file format. Other features include 'Advanced Kicker Logic', which supports collecting cut parts at certain positions along the out feed conveyor(based on user definable criteria), and a customizable label printing tool with built-in expression builder. In 2013 Eurosoft updated the OmgaLinkPro software for current Windows® operating systems.

SALS (Schelling Automated Loading Software) is a software system developed in collaboration with Precision Saws and Schelling in 2012. The purpose of the project was to maximize the efficiency of Schelling HV-A (High Volume & Automated Cut-To-Size) Systems by distributing the workload evenly across multiple Schelling panel saws. Using SALS, materials loaded onto a joint infeed conveyor can be directed to the appropriate saw automatically based on a variety of customizable criteria. Schelling and Eurosoft worked together to create a robust interface that would allow maximum automation of the machines but would also be flexible enough to respond to changing demands and workload.

First released by Weinig in 2015, EnVision is an all-in-one solution for product customization, efficient processing and data flow, with ability to connect and output to all Weinig/Holzher machines. Part of EnVision's capabilities is the ability to produce optimized layouts for panel saws and routers. To produce the optimized part patterns, EnVision leverages BlueCell's optimization logic and customization functionality.